The 40-year-old, who is widely regarded as one of the best footballers to play for India, tweeted another reply in which he called for a single league with 15 to 18 teams. Bhutia has been very open in expressing opinions about the progress and the direction of Indian football and he has just made another strong statement here by criticising the I-League fixtures. The fixture list, which came out earlier today, is being widely criticised in social media mainly due to the 2PM kick-offs even for the big games like the Kolkata derby....

“We played more chances than we had in our last three games. The end result was the same as it had been in the last three and now fourth game. But, I think there was a response from the players. It had been a difficult week,” he said pointing to the mass protest by supporters against him on Friday morning. He added, “My mind has been in a difficult place and I am sure the players have as well....

Returning from the four-week break, both teams had two changes each in their starting lineups. Surinder Singh brought in Kamalpreet Singh and Altamash Sayed who were replaced by David Ngaithe and Fanai Lalrempuia in the second half for the home side. For the visitors, V. Soundararajan started with Edwin Vanspaul and Lalnunmawia in place of Marcos Thank and injured Nandhakumar. Minerva were the better team in the opening minutes, pressing Chennai high up, making sure their defence do not hold more of the ball....

A win for Lajong allows them to return to the fourth position on the table, leapfrogging Bengaluru FC while Minerva Punjab will look to stem the tide as soon as they can. Kickoff is at 16:35 IST. PREDICTED LINE-UPS: TEAM NEWS: MINERVA PUNJAB FC Injured: None Suspended: None Doubtful: None Key Player: David Ngaihte SHILLONG LAJONG FC Injured: Zodingliana Ralte Doubtful: None Suspended: None Key player: Aser Pierrick Dipanda Dicka

Coach Soundarajan pointed that although the opposition are tactically superior, they do not have the edge going into the tie as they do not have any foreign player in their squad. “I’m very happy to play against Indian Arrows. They are tactically superior and have practiced together for the last three years. So it’s a very good opportunity for us to play against the best organized team in India....

But I’m not afraid for us—if you are reading this in the United States, I’m afraid for you. For the last 20 years, my husband Matt and I were working in a symphony orchestra together. In 2002, I founded ALIAS Chamber Ensemble; for the next 16 years I functioned as its artistic director, overseeing dozens of commissions of new music by American composers and four CD recordings, the first of which garnered a Grammy nomination....

But the brief courtroom session did offer lawyers, reporters and the defendant, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, their first glimpse of the jurors in a while. Most seemed to be enjoying themselves. A couple of women in the front row smiled and whispered among themselves. A few seemed to look in Libby’s general direction (usually a good sign for a defendant)–although it was hard to tell if they were looking at him, one of his lawyers or the continually broken clock right above him....

Stevens is meant as a tragicomic figure, which is easier to accept in the prize-winning original novel by the Japanese-English writer Kazuo Ishiguro. There the story is told by Stevens himself, with Ishiguro controlling all the ironic nuances of a narrative that moves from complacent self-deception to chagrined realization of a wasted life. The novel is a writer’s tour de force, but the film, scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, sets the characters in the light of reality, and it may arouse more impatience than empathy....

Kahn had the chance to sign for the Old Trafford club when Sir Alex Ferguson was still in charge at Old Trafford and feels that he missed out on a wonderful opportunity. No goalkeeper has made more appearances than Kahn in Germany’s top flight with 557, but he feels that he should have spread his wings a little more. “Sir Alex Ferguson is still mad at me today. He thought that I would move to Man Utd in 2003 or 2004, but I was more interested in trying to define an era at Bayern,” Kahn told Bild....

The 24-year-old who plays for Allsvenskan outfit Ostersunds also revealed his initial struggles with football boots having enjoyed kickarounds barefooted in the northern part of Nigeria. “Back home in Africa where we grew up, we didn’t have a lot of things compared to European kids when they start playing football,” Gero told Uefa website. “When I started playing, I started with no shoes, playing in the street with a lot of bottles on the ground and stones....

In India, saris are adult attire. After I turned 18, I occasionally wore a sari for weddings and holidays and to the temple. But wearing a sequined silk sari to an Indian party was one thing. Deciding to wear a sari every day while living in New York, especially after 10 years in Western clothes, sounded outrageous, even to me. The sari is six yards of fabric folded into a graceful yet cumbersome garment....

Pogba leads Utd to emotional win Jose Mourinho’s men defeated a vibrant Ajax side at the Friends Arena in Sweden on Wednesday, thanks to goals from Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The tournament itself was full of great moments prior to the final, however, and Goal has picked out the 11 best performers from this season’s Europa League. GOALKEEPER | SERGIO ROMERO | MANCHESTER UNITED The undisputed No.2 at Manchester United, behind David De Gea, the Argentine has shone when given the chance in the Europa League....

The home players were furious when the Paris Saint-Germain striker escaped a red card for catching the versatile Bayern Munich midfielder in the face with his right arm. However, Zlatan, who stands 1.95 meters tall, insisted that it was an accidental collision caused by the difference in height between two players. “He [Alaba] goes into me twice and the third time I try to shield the ball and he [Alaba] is 1....

Speaking with Newsweek on Monday, immigration attorneys Ambar Tovar and Lisa Knox said they felt compelled to call an ambulance to the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility on Sunday afternoon after the two detainees’ conditions began to deteriorate to the point that the attorneys believed their lives could be in danger. Both attorneys were particularly worried about Tovar’s client, Christian Orellana, a 22-year-old man diagnosed with a liver disease that makes him more vulnerable to suffering serious health consequences as a result of COVID-19....

Video and photos of the rally appear to show dozens of protesters blocking the entrances and exits to the building’s parking lots with vehicles and demonstration lines. “Come join us outside the Federal Deportation Court (Whipple Building)!” Never Again Action, the group behind the protest, wrote in a tweet. “We’re here, we’re staying strong, we’ll still be here when you arrive, we’re singing in Hebrew and we’ll teach you the words!...

“They call us heroes, but aren’t heroes supposed to save lives?” Kuhr, who is the narrator, says early on in the video. “I shared the most intimate moments in the most unintimate ways. So many loved ones would rather be in my place.” The video goes on to show snippets of footage seemingly taken from settings in the ICU, in which doctors and nurses who are wearing heavy protective gear help patients who are hooked up to ventilators....

“We are definitely caring for some of the sickest patients in the hospital right now. In the beginning, it was scary. Now, it’s just my normal, everyday job,” Kat Phillips, a surgical ICU nurse at UNC Medical Center, told WRAL News. “I think we are in crisis mode. The nurses are feeling it. The hospital is feeling it. Other patients are feeling it.” Around a quarter of hospital patients in North Carolina are being hospitalized for COVID, according to WRAL News, including 39 percent who are being treated in intensive care units....

Kootenai Health’s main building in Coeur d’Alene is packed, with patients receiving care in a converted lobby and even in the facility’s hallways. Patients who need urgent surgeries and others in critical condition are forced to wait as COVID-19 patients overwhelm the staff. The city of 50,000 is the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the northern part of the state, which has prompted officials to instate a kind of triage for all hospitals....