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Professional Game Match Officials Limited announced that Michael Salisbury’s attendance for Sunday’s Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal was inappropriate. The video assistant referee’s decision to deny Fulham’s opening goal at Chelsea on Saturday caused the official to withdraw.
Josh King scored the winning goal 22 minutes into the game before Rodrigo Muniz’ foul on him was flagged off after being called off during a VAR intervention.
Trevoh Chalobah, Chelsea’s centre-back, was alleged to have stepped on Muniz’ foot as he approached the halfway line.
Antonee Robinson, Joachim Andersen, and Ryan Sessegnon, both of Fulham, criticised the way VAR operated in the Premier League in an Instagram post on Sunday.
What’s the point, exactly, if they can check something for five minutes and still get it wrong? Robertson wrote. The Prem’s standard of officiating has been shocking for too long.
The crowd was given the news of the VAR decision on Saturday.
Referee Robert Jones told the Stamford Bridge crowd, “Fulham Number 9 makes a careless challenge and stands on the foot of the Chelsea defender. We disallow the goal and kick off with a Chelsea free kick.”
Chelsea scored their opening goal in 2-0 victory nine minutes into eight-minute stoppage time, which made matters worse for Fulham.
Fulham spoke with referees chief Howard Webb, who declared the decision to be error.
He claimed that the decision to rule out the goal should have been a “referees’ call” instead because it was not a clear and obvious error made by the referee.
Referees’ body PGMOL has replaced Salisbury with John Brooks for the match at Anfield on Sunday.
After the defeat, Fulham manager Marco Silva criticized the officials and called the decision to deny the goal “unbelievable.”
After the game, which ended Fulham without a win in three Premier League games, Silva said, “How you disallow a goal like that is unbelievable.”
We have discussions with the officials and the officials, and we all want to win. The game cannot be re-refereed by VAR.
I would rather not say more because I would be punished. I don’t want to be fined, but I want to be on the touchline the following week to support my team.
“But some decisions have had to be made in order to start the season.”
After Marc Guehi was found to have interfered with the wall, Eberechi Eze’s free-kick in a 0-0 draw against Crystal Palace was disallowed on the opening weekend, making it the second Premier League home game in a row that Chelsea benefitted from a VAR intervention.
After his side lost to Manchester United in a contentious late penalty, Burnley manager Scott Parker claimed the use of VAR was “threatening to turn football into the most sterile game there is.”
When Jaidon Anthony was caught grabbing Amad Diallo’s shirt inside the area, Ruben Amorim’s team were given a penalty well into the closing seconds.
Referee Sam Barrott initially stopped play, but Bruno Fernandes held his nerve to win the game 3-2 with the spot-kick after reviewing the incident on the pitchside monitor.
According to Parker, “it’s the way the game has changed,” Parker said of the BBC Match of the Day. “Quarruple checking everything every minute.
O’Brien, Costigan, Higgins, McGann, Moore, and Breen O’Brien, 3 attempts.
Spain (12) 27
With a seven-try victory over Spain at Franklin’s Gardens, Ireland made it to the women’s rugby world cup quarter-finals.
Although Scott Bemand’s side had already qualified for the previous World Cup in New Zealand, they were forced to work for the victory against a determined Spanish side.
In a game where the winners didn’t make sure until midway through the second half, Grace Moore and Anna McGann both scored twice for Ireland, but Spain did not manage five scores.
It was a disappointing afternoon for Ireland, who lost co-captain Sam Monaghan to injury in the first half despite their first entry into the knockout phase since 2014.
Spain responds strongly to Ireland’s strong start.
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Dannah O’Brien crossed for her first international try just seven minutes after Ireland’s management team had demanded a second quick start in Franklin’s Gardens.
The 21-year-old fly-half kicked the loose ball past the Spanish backfield, but Amee-Leigh Costigan, a winger, deserved more credit for chasing forward and taking the lead. Ireland worked the ball back inside for O’Brien to cross from there.
O’Brien converted her own score in the opening game of her six-from-six against Japan, but she subsequently missed three conversions and a penalty.
Ireland scored again when they next faced the Spanish 22 after knocking a penalty into the corner and using the maul to gain ground before Costigan went over in the corner.
It appeared as though Ireland had not missed a beat despite making seven changes from its previous victory over Japan.
However, in recent years, Spain have consistently been a difficult opponent, and this was no exception.
Claudia Perez’ forwards’ good work, which allowed her to scamper over in the corner, paid off when she used their maul to set the platform.
Five minutes later, Spain again attacked off the maul, but this time the ball was not required to be released as hooker Marieta Roman slammed across the whitewash and Amalia Argudo’s conversion from the touchline leveled the game.
In Wafer’s absence, Moore excels.
However, it still needed to be won, especially when Claudia Pena, Spain’s third scorer, scored three minutes after the restart.
Only then did Ireland truly take control of the high-scoring matchup, with Moore coming out on top.
King and Wall both suffered injuries during the Six Nations that caused them to miss the World Cup, which has put the back-row depth of the side greatly on display at this competition.
Wafer’s inclusion in the 2018 World Cup has been a frequently debated subject throughout Northampton’s two weeks, but it was Moore’s replacement that helped Ireland finally take control of the game.
Her pair of tries, which were consistently good lines to match her potent carrying, were separated by 10 minutes and gave Ireland their day’s biggest lead just before the hour mark.
Spain won a try-bonus of their own, and Lourdes Alameda and McGann traded scores when Cristina Blanco scored from an inventive line-out with the final play.
Relief workers carried out a massive rescue operation in eastern Pakistan, reporting that nearly half a million people had been displaced by flooding after days of heavy rain had swollen rivers.
More than 2,300 villages have been affected by the swollen transboundary rivers that pass through Punjab province, which borders India.
The Punjab government’s relief services, led by Nabeel Javed, announced on Saturday that 481 000 people had been evacuated along with 405 000 livestock and that 481 000 had been stranded by the floods.
More than 1.5 million people, including those in Lahore, the provincial capital and the second-largest city, have been affected by the flooding overall.
At a press conference, Irfan Ali Khan, the provincial’s director of disaster management, said, “This is the biggest rescue operation in Punjab’s history.”
He claimed that more than 800 boats and 1,300 rescuers were evacuating families from the affected areas, the majority of which were rural areas close to the three rivers.
He claimed that there have been 30 fatalities in the most recent monsoon flooding since the start of the week, with hundreds more still missing throughout the heavier-than-usual season that started in June.
“No one is unattended with their lives,” the statement read. According to Khan, “every kind of rescue effort is still going on.”
Families and their livestock can now find shelter in more than 500 relief camps. Difficulty families gathered in a school in the impoverished town of Shahdara, which is near Lahore, after fleeing their homes’ rising water.
More than 400 Pakistanis were killed in just a few days in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the only province held by the opposition to the federal government, in the course of a matter of days as a result of torrential rain on the other side of the nation.
As the Global Sumud Flotilla prepares to leave for Gaza from Barcelona, activists addressed the media and urged the region to receive urgent food and supplies. Diffusion of boats and “deliberate denial of basic survival needs” has been reported by Greta Thunberg in her report.
Mark Wogan’s son, Terry, has revealed that his family is unable to sell their $ 3.75 million home.
Mark Wogan has spoken out about struggling to sell the family home(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Terry Wogan’s youngset son Mark Wogan, 51 , made headlines after revealing his family were unable to sell their stunning home.
The sprawling 6,500 square foot property which boasts of views of Windsor Castle, a tennis court and a swimming pool, has been on the market after his mother, Lady Helen died last November.
In the past nine months, there haven’t been any showings or offers on the house, according to Mark.
In 1975, Sir Terry and Lady Helen bought the seven-bedroom home and raised their three children there.
Mark Wogan hits out at Chancellor Rachel Reeves for being unable to sell family home(Image: Mirrorpix)
You’d think someone would come round, even just out of curiosity, and say, “Oh, I’d quite like to go round and see Terry Wogan’s house,” Mark said in a conversation with Mike Graham on TalkTV.
He continued, “But no one has come to see it.” Not a single person, not even one. That demonstrates how illiterate the economy is.
Five reception rooms, a utility room, two ensuite bedrooms, and a 30-minute walk to London’s Paddington Station are just a few of the amenities of the property.
Sir Terry Wogan with Lady Helen and their three children(Image: Mirrorpix)
He continued, “The kitchen was central to everything, because we’re a close family, so we’re a close family, so we’re a close family. The cook was excellent. Growing up in a family was a big part of eating and talking around a table.
In the summer, he continued, “We’d also have some lovely long lunches on the terrace with a view to my mother’s beloved garden.” It has beauty to it. We’re going to miss the house a lot. But it will [provide] a wonderful place for a family to raise.”
For each of her five grandchildren, who will receive money in her will when they are 25 years old, Lady Helen left £100,000 in trusts in her will.
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Additionally, her three children received significant financial gifts. The eldest son Alan was given £850, 000, a further £750, 000 was given to Katherine.
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Pierre-Francois Lardet, a French journalist-turned-entrepreneur, traveled to Nicaragua in 1909 with the intention of making a beverage there that he had tasted.
Banania was born in August 1914, five years later.
France was at war when the chocolate-flavored banana powder beverage arrived.
A Black soldier in a red fez-clad mascot from the following year first appeared on an advertising poster.
On the front lines of Europe, Africa, and Anatolia during World War One, 200 000 African soldiers fought for France. They were originally from West and Central Africa’s French colonies. Many people were compelled to recruit.
On the Banania poster, the African soldier wore a signature red fez and resembled Senegalese Tirailleurs (riflemen). Because its initial recruits from Senegal were the first ones to join this military corps, which was established in 1857, it was given the name.
For their bravery, the tirailleurs were renowned. They served in World War One (1914) and later in the colonial wars in West and Central Africa. They served in France, North Africa, and the Middle East during World War II (1939-1945). During the First World War, there were at least 30 000 tirailleurs killed, and an estimated 8 000 died in the Second.
Banania’s tirailleur is smiling, seated by his side, with a bowl of the powdered drink in hand, and a rifle on the grass. His exaggerated smile and facial features resemble racial stereotypes that were prevalent in the time and in shoe polish, soap, and chocolate advertisements.
The poster’s slogan, “Y’a bon,” which means “C’est bon” (this is good) in French, was used to promote the racist caricature of the cheerful but simple African. The Y’a bon friend, or “L’ami Y’a bon,” was used as the company’s mascot.
Lardet’s Mascot tapped into a sense of pride and patriotism in the midst of World War One. According to Sandrine Lemaire, a historian and co-author of several books on French colonization, it also helped to promote public acceptance of African soldiers who were fighting on French soil. Banania was not the only one. Through propaganda, postcards, and news articles, the French government attempted to use images that depict the loyalty and military traits of France’s African soldiers.
First World War: The Refugees of Senegalese Rifles. The inspiration for Banania’s first mascot, [Roger Viollet via Getty Images], came from these soldiers.
During a 2010 discussion about Banania and colonial oppression, Pap Ndiaye, a politician and historian, claimed that “the tirailleur was an opportunistic advertising invention from Lardet… which made the consumption of Banania a quasi-patriotic act.
Banania was promoted through mascot-themed children’s comics. In one, he travels back to France and presents two boxes of Banania to Africans in loinclothes. He travels to the West Indies, the Canary Islands, and French colonial Indochina to establish banana plantations in an illustrated booklet published in 1933.
“In the 20s, 30s, 40s, Banania was everywhere. In a 2014 documentary about Banania, branding expert Jean Watin-Augouard argued that there were touchpoints throughout the industry: “it had touchpoints in every domain, including notebooks, packaging, promotional items, and cinema.”
Production at Banania tripled between the late 1930s and the early 1950s, according to the only book about Banania’s history that was published. Before Nesquik entered the market in the 1960s, these were Banania’s golden years.
According to Etienne Achille, associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, the mascot, which appeared in advertisements, packaging, and collectible items like toys, was popular throughout the 20th century because it reinforced French people’s pride in their colonial empire and their “subjects'” contribution to the war effort.
A 1979 Tour de France sign and a Renault Estafette with Banania branding [Creative Commons]
Decolonization has left a mark on the continent.
However, Banania was also shattered by decolonization as the French colonies in Africa fought for and gained independence in the 1950s and early 1960s.
With its slogan and stereotypical mascot, Banania has grown to be synonymous with racism and colonialism. The tirailleur embodies the injustice that anti-colonial movements have condemned as being a result of soldiers’ forced engagements in France.
In a 1948 poem dedicated to the tirailleurs, Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became Senegal’s first president in 1960, declared, “I will tear up the Banania smiles from all the walls of France.”
In his 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks, Martinique-born philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon made a number of references to “Y’a bon Banania” to illustrate how racist tropes are used to depict Black people in France.
The mascot remained, though with updates, despite the criticisms.
A brown triangular face with cartoon eyes and a red rectangular hat on a yellow background was introduced in 1967 as advertising promoted modern, aspirational lifestyles. However, the phrase was withdrawn in 1977.
Some brand-owned products featured a cartoonish child’s face in the 1980s and 1990s, while others retained the mascot.
[Clement Girardot/Al Jazeera] The “grandson” of the original tirailleur adorns contemporary packaging.
A new mascot, the “grandson” of the 1915 tirailleur, was unveiled in 2004 after Banania was sold to French company Nutrial under the name Nutrimaine, who, according to Nutrimaine, represented diversity and the successful integration of migrant communities into French society. His ecstatic smile, white teeth, and red fez weren’t all that dissimilar from his predecessor’s, though.
The French brand never relinquished its position of dominance in the final decades of the 20th century, and it kept losing ground to rivals like Nesquik. It struggled financially as millennials lost interest in it.
To save the business, they had to go back to the brand’s golden era. Returning to the emblem was the only option available. Few companies have such a strong brand identity,” Achille remarked. The idea of superposition is effectively explored in this revitalized version. You immediately recall the old tirailleur when you see it.
The website Grioo.com, an online platform for the French-speaking Black community in Europe and Africa, also gained readers and activists’ attention. Can we accept that we are still represented as we were a generation ago, 90 years? Grioo launched an online petition against Banania in response to its readers.
Awatif Bentahar, a graphic designer, redesigned the packaging for a beverage from her childhood.
Heritage that is “Horrible”
The “grandson” still smiles on Banania boxes in French supermarkets more than 20 years later.
Banania’s marketing, in the eyes of Achille, epitomizes France’s lack of public discussion of colonialism and postcolonial racism. Only the complete insertion of the colonial into popular culture can explain why Banania can continue to operate impunity, he said. This would not be possible in other nations.
Nutrimaine’s spokesperson declined to comment on this article.
Awatif Bentahar, 37, was a child who occasionally drank Banania and saw it on the shelves of supermarkets. She claims that the business hasn’t understood how a large portion of the population can be harmed by their heritage.
The French “children of immigrants” are aware of the agonizing history of colonization and the struggle we wage today to be respected in a society that cannot help but make references to our status as “different” French.
Bentahar wants to see Banania develop as a French woman of Moroccan descent. She removed the mascot and incorporated playful eyes and a smile as a personal project, and she made alternative decolonized packaging.
“I tried to rebrand Banania because I really like the concept of what it could be, not because I hate it. She wrote on her blog that “brands are a part of our lives, whether or not we like it.”
For a change, I’d like to see this one being on the positive side of history. “This one happened to be from my childhood.
This article is included in the series “Ordinary items, extraordinary stories,” which explores the surprising happenings that surround well-known items.  ,
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