In the Black Friday sale, one of Helen Skelton’s favorite waterproof and windproof jackets has just been reduced by 50%. This is ideal for the upcoming wet winter weather.
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Helen handpicked the Hunter jacket as one of her go-to weatherproof coats(Image: Go Outdoors)
TV presenter Helen Skelton is known for her love of the great outdoors, so it stands to reason she’s the go-to for waterproof jacket recommendations. Which is why Black Friday is the perfect time to snap up one of her favourite jackets with a huge 50% saving.
Helen has collected some of her favorite weatherproof jackets to keep in your closet and has collaborated with Go Outdoors numerous times. The Hunter Green Label Women’s Maidens Long Wind Breaker Jacket, which has just been reduced for the savings weekend, is one of her favorites.
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During the Black Friday sale, Go Outdoors members can save 50%, bringing the price of the Hunter Maidens Long Wind Breaker Jacket down to £45. You can sign up for a year-long Go Outdoors membership for just £5, which will save you a ton on everything else on the website.
Additionally, Go Outdoors is offering an additional 20% discount that can be combined with your members’ discount on selected items. Helen’s Hunter Wind Breaker Jacket is unfortunately exempt from the additional savings, but the website’s code BF20 can be used for a lot of other items if you want to stock up on outdoor winter essentials.
The Hunter Wind Breaker Jacket by Helen strikes the ideal balance between practicality and style. It is made of PU-coated fabric that keeps you dry in light showers and has a longline length with an attached hood that keeps you dry from the elements.
Flap pockets keep your belongings dry and safe, while underarm eyelets prevent overheating and sweating. You can wear it wherever you go, from a hike to your daily commute, with the addition of a bungee cord that allows you to adjust the waist for more definition.
As the official Black Friday sales begin, there are plenty of other excellent picks available elsewhere. The Mosebacke Lightweight Raincoat is 25% off at Stutterheim, which is ideal if you’re looking to save some money. The Adult Waterproof Changing Robe has decreased from £120 to £60, and you can even save an additional 10% with the code BLACK10, bringing the price down to £54.
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The Alaskan Womens 3 in 1 Long Waterproof Jacket, which has inner layers that can be zipped away in warmer weather, is also 55% off at Mountain Warehouse and is versatile enough to be worn all year long. It’s now priced at $ 99.99, down from its usual £ 219.99, and offers an additional 10% discount with the code BFEXTRA10, bringing it to 90.
Brisbane is not a city to give England some much-needed Ashes optimism.
The tourists must prepare for a trip to the Gabba, an area England haven’t won since 1986, after being defeated by Australia in the first Test.
Men wearing three lions have habitually been lambs to the slaughter at the Gabbatoir.
A shining knight delivered inspiration from a recent history of broken English hopes, dreams, and bodies.
It is exactly 15 years since Sir Alastair Cook conquered the Gabba with a career-defining 235 not out, saving the first Test of 2010-11 and setting England on course to their only Ashes series win in Australia in the past 38 years.
Three hundred and 766 runs of Cook’s triumphant circumnavigation of Australia came to an end. Wally Hammond is the only Englishman to score more runs in a series in this country.
England won by one innings and won all of the previous victories. They have not won a Test here since.
Cook says on the podcast Test Match Special, “You forget the difficult times, the nervousness, and anxiety that came with that.”
“I look back with pride. When England defeated Australia 3-1, and all three of the games were won by an innings, was a significant part of my series. That just doesn’t happen. I need to sit down and watch some of it one day.
Cook’s road to his Australian epic began 18 months earlier, at the end of the 2009 Ashes in the UK. England prevailed, but the opener averaged less than 25 and had just one score over 50.
He wanted more.
Although cricket is a team sport, he claims that the individuality does give you the impression that you are trying to pull your weight. “The stats are very clear. If I had chosen to participate in an Ashes series that I did well, that would have meant more.
” I wanted to judge myself against the best and my game wasn’t stacking up against the best bowlers in the world.
“Two days after the celebrations, I was back hitting hundreds and hundreds of balls in the nets with Graham Gooch, trying to groove something that seemed very unnatural, thinking it would improve my technique over time.”
The initial results were encouraging. Cook made three hundreds while traveling to Bangladesh and South Africa during the winter of 2009-2010.
Cook was persuaded that this was his final Test match before being dropped at the end of the second day of the third Test against Pakistan at The Oval.
“I was sitting in the bar, trying to find the answer in the bottom of a beer bottle”, he says.
“I made the promise to myself, Don’t go out defending tomorrow.” That was where I was at.
It cleared the mind, they said. I decided to go back to my old technique. By lunchtime on the third day, I had 76.
Cook’s 110 guaranteed his seat on the plane to Australia, albeit via an infamous team-bonding trip to Bavaria dreamt up by England coach Andy Flower and captain Andrew Strauss.
Players performed hundreds of press-ups while carrying bricks uphill. James Anderson suffered a cracked rib in a boxing session. Cook was fortunately unaware of almost everything.
” I was at my brother’s wedding, “he says”. The last day was when I showed up. The most broken men were Strauss and Flower. Because they had the right plan, I believed it was effective.
“I’m genuinely disappointed I did miss it. There were constant references to that camp for the next few months. At the time it was horrendous, but the fact we were still talking about it years later shows it had its worth. Every night, I believe people really stoked the campfire.
Well-drilled on and off the pitch, England continued their preparations by winning two and drawing one of their warm-up games in Australia – Cook scored a century against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval.
They were hit by Peter Siddle’s hat-trick in the opening Test at the Gabba, followed by Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin’s scores in the following Tests.
An hour before the end of the third day, Cook and Strauss opened England’s second innings with a deficit of 221 runs. At stumps, they won 19-0, and their subsequent performance was immortalized in Ashes folklore.
“I don’t remember the messages, anything of what we spoke about”, says Cook. The pitch was free of demons, and we had an experienced team. We just had to show some fight”.
For the first wicket, the left-handers added 188. Strauss made 110. Jonathan Trott eased into Cook’s slipstream for an unbeaten 135.
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“It was my 14th Test hundred, but the first time when it felt like I had really contributed and made a difference”, says Cook.
“It reinforced our belief that the Australian team was ready to take.” We got out of jail, but in a way that gave us a lot of confidence”.
The second Test’s opening day in Adelaide was a remarkable success for England. Simon Katich was run out by Trott’s direct hit from the fourth ball of the match and Australia captain Ricky Ponting was out first ball to Anderson.
Australia were 2-3 after Anderson also nicked off Michael Clarke. The home side spiralled to 245 all out, leaving England one over to bat at the end of the first day.
According to Cook, “We entered the changing room and Flower inquired if we were having a nightwatchman.”
“If Jimmy Anderson opened the batting, got out, then I went out to bat, imagine the stick I’d have got from the Australians when they were pumped up.
Straussy typically took the first ball, but I told him, “I’m going out there now and will face the first ball.” You do what you want’.
He responded, “OK.” I’ll do it as well'”.
Cook’s heroics in Brisbane were followed by 148 in a Test that will forever be remembered for Kevin Pietersen’s 227 against the Australians. Off-spinner Graeme Swann took five wickets in the second innings to bowl England to victory just before the heavens opened on the fifth day.
There’s no better place to be hungry than a flat Adelaide pitch in 40-degree heat, says Cook, “because I was struggling the entire summer.”
“The KP double hundred was a real marker of dominance, of taking Australia down. He led the team, and the result was a win-win situation. He hammered Australia into the ground”.
Only Mitchell Johnson would have predicted the havoc he would cause four years later, allowing England to retain the Ashes in Perth.
England bowled out Australia for 268 and reached 78-0 in reply before Johnson got going. England lost by 267 runs in the match thanks to the left-armer’s nine wickets.
“We had a team meeting straight after and I wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do”, says Cook.
“It turned out to be the best choice,” he said. Flower wanted us to look at how we lost the game.
Did we start to consider the end result rather than what we were doing? Did we think we had done all the hard work and were going to win? Perhaps we were considering keeping the Ashes in Perth. I don’t know.
It was crucial to get the answers to some questions, even though we may not be aware of them. We went to Melbourne and the Perth game was buried. It ended up being a two-match series at 1-1.
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Perhaps England’s greatest Ashes game ever occurred in Australia.
At the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the 100, 000-seater cathedral of Australian sport, and on Boxing Day, the highlight of the calendar in this country, the home side were blown away for 98. At the close, England’s Cook and Strauss had a score of 157-0.
” If Carlsberg did Boxing Days, it was that. At the conclusion of the day, “says Cook,” there was disbelief. Me and Strauss cleared the MCG with our batting – most people wanted to go home when we were batting together.
“On Boxing Day, the Aussies are very pleased how many people can travel to the MCG.” By the end there were only 20, 000 English people watching me and Strauss grind it around Melbourne.
“What we did as a group is absolutely tops the list of things I could do to go back in time and play any day over again.”
Trott made 168 and England won by an innings and 157 runs. A sprinkler dance on the MCG outfield celebrated keeping the Ashes.
” I felt a little bit uneasy doing it, because we hadn’t gone there to retain the Ashes – we’d gone there to win, “says Cook.
We hadn’t finished yet, despite the fact that I enjoyed the dressing room in Melbourne and a few of the young people who had gone out with the Barmy Army.
“A result of 2-2 would have felt a bit of an injustice. We still had Sydney, regardless of how good Melbourne was.
Fuelled by the focus to win the urn, Cook was at it again at the Sydney Cricket Ground. His 189-run victory gave England its highest total in an Australian Test, 644.
The question was not if England would win the match and the Ashes, but when.
Cook recalls that Chris Tremlett “bounced out Brad Haddin and brought Mitchell Johnson to the wicket on the fourth evening.”
“The song the Barmy Army sang, I’ve never heard anything like it. Tremmers said, “I’m just going to bowl this as quickly as I can,” when I spoke with him. He bowled an absolute jaffa to Johnson, and it bowled him. It’s the loudest noise I’ve ever heard.
England took the extra half an hour on that fourth evening, but could not get over the line.
A victory procession took place on the fifth morning. The Barmy Army and the rest of the travelling supporters were joined in the SCG by every ex-pat and backpacker in Sydney for an English Ashes party.
Cook describes the atmosphere as “unbelievable.” “It felt like an age, I was desperate to take the final wicket.
It was pure elation, just incredible, when Tremlett won the match and brought Michael Beer out.
“It was so early in the day, we had so much time to soak it in. We stayed for absolutely ages on the field and in the changing areas, but I’m not sure when we left the ground. It was very, very special”.
The series’ player was Cook. The remaining seven years of his Test career were illuminated by other milestones: a starring performance in the 2012 series win in India, winning the Ashes as captain in 2015 and breaking the England records for most Test runs and hundreds.
There were also some bad things, most notably his humiliating 5-0 defeat as Australia’s captain in 2013-14.
Following his international retirement in 2018, Cook was knighted for services to cricket. The tour of Australia in 2010 and 2011 provided the best example of that service.
“I couldn’t have played any better”, he says. I was very fortunate to have been a part of that team, which achieved something uncommon for England in Australia.
” When you win games of cricket, it is unbelievably special. Although it required effort, international sport also requires effort.
For her gritty new biopic playing boxer Christy Martin the Hollywood starlet undergoes a stunning transformation, whereas Sydney Sweeney is more frequently seen posing head-first on the red carpet.
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Sydney Sweeney has undergone a jaw-dropping transformation for new movie Christy(Image: Getty Images)
Sydney Sweeney’s latest film role is unlike anything she’s ever done before. In sports drama Christy, she revisits her old kickboxing days – she practised the martial art while growing up – as she transforms into West Virginia boxing star Christy Martin.
The real Christy, who is now 57 and retired, had a turbulent personal life as well as a successful athletic career after being sexually abused as a child and facing her parents’ disapproval when she admitted she was a lesbian. Both of her experiences were remarkable.
Euphoria star Sydney, 28, who’s also set to play the lead in a screen adaptation of hit novel The Housemaid this December, discusses the blood, sweat and tears – and weight gain – involved in filming her latest movie, as she ditches her trademark glamour and goes full-on “method” for a distinctly grittier look.
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What preparation did it take for you to achieve Christy Martin’s level of combat?
It took some hard work for the physical transformation. I was in the gym for three months before shooting, which I loved because, having done kickboxing before, I was kind of looking for an excuse to go back. It was fun for me, but it was something I had to give up when I started on Euphoria [the hit TV drama whose cast she joined in 2019].
Were you prohibited from kickboxing and acting?
I ain’t was. However, I’ve never been as strong as I did when I trained for this. It was a thrill for me to be able to play a woman who was as inspiring as Christy and achieve that kind of physical fitness. She is truly amazing, the more I trained and learned more about her.
In this movie, you appear so completely different. Do you have any objections to that?
No, I was excited to do it. I wanted desperately to do Christy justice and to make her proud. I really love to play characters that I can disappear into and just totally transform. I threw myself into every aspect of this character. I built a gym in my house. I had a professional boxing trainer, a weight trainer and a nutritionist. I was working hard every day to get where I needed to be physically.
You were a result of that transformation, gaining 35 pounds. Was that challenging?
It was actually only a component of the process. Building muscle, drinking plenty of protein shakes, and eating less calories were all involved. There was a lot of it. I was constantly feeling sick. That’s for sure, it’s much harder to lose than it was to put on. However, once I started boxing, my weight would drop even with the high calorie intake and eating. It was then just a matter of restoring that balance.
As a producer, you played a significant role in the development of this movie. What about it made you feel appealing?
I just found the incredible resilience of this woman in both the ring and the locker room inspiring. It is incredible what she accomplished as a boxer and how she opened the door for so many women. She is just as inspiring because she had to work that way in her personal life at the time. I began to relate to Christy more as I learned more about her story. Girls everywhere look to her as inspiration.
There are a lot of emotional scenes, but the physical aspect is so much of the focus…
Yeah, and they were both very different processes. The physical stuff was fun. I could train and feel prepared. But then some days it was about going from that to a big emotional scene. It was a different challenge. We were so lucky to have Christy there with us. I was able to talk to her a lot and figure out what her mindsetwas in those moments. It was all about feeling the moment, working with the script and just going for it. That’s the way I like to work.
The movie’s fight scenes are brutal. Have you ever been physically attacked?
I did. What you see in the film is actually me getting hit and making contact with the other girl in the ring.I didn’t want it to not feel real. It had to feel like it was really Christy fighting in there, with all the emotion she has. Some of the girls I was in the ring with were stunt people, but we also had some real fighters. I told them to go full-force. I was like, ‘Hit me. I want you to hit me!’” I got concussion one time. Other than that,it was just a few bruises and bloody noses.
You mentioned how kicking kickboxing helped you. Have you ever competed?
I once engaged in some competition. Some of the guys I fought were defeated. I was incredibly interested in kickboxing, but it’s getting harder to do it with this job. It is forbidden. With this job, it’s difficult for me to get back in the ring in the real world. Although it’s a fun idea, I haven’t received any offers yet.
What have you learned from playing this amazing woman?
So much. This has been a life-changing experience for me in such a positive way. Playing Christy and getting to know her has taught me how to stand up for myself and what I need to do to feel stronger in my work life as well as my personal life. It’s made me feel ready to stand up for the people in my life and to always be there for them. It’s also made me remember just how much I love boxing.
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From November 28 to November 28 in some select UK cinemas, Christy will be available.
British boxing champion Jeamie ‘TKV ‘ Tshikeva relates the incredible story of his family history, including his father’s professional wrestling career, his father’s attempted assassination, and how their path led to their boxing career.
According to officials, Sri Lanka has closed government buildings and schools as a result of the country’s 56-person death toll from floods and landslides, with more than 600 homes engulfed.
Last week, severe weather began to grip Sri Lanka, and heavy downpours flooded homes, fields, and roads, causing landslides all over the country.
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More than 25 people died on Thursday in landslides in Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, which are central mountain tea-growing regions, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Colombo, the capital.
According to the government’s disaster management center, another 21 people have been missing and 14 have been injured in the Badulla and Nuwara Eliya areas, according to a source with The Associated Press.
In various regions of the nation, others perished in landslides.
Clearly impacted by daily life
The government announced Friday that all government offices and schools would be shut down as a result of the worsening weather.
Most reservoirs and rivers have overflowed, preventing access to roads as a result of heavy rains. After rocks, mud, and trees fell on roads and railroad tracks, which were also flooded in some areas, authorities shut down passenger trains and reopened roads in many parts of the nation.
On Thursday, the navy and police used boats to transport residents while the air force helicopter flew to rescue three people trapped on the roof of a house surrounded by floods.
Three people died as a result of a car being swept away by floodwaters near the eastern town of Ampara, according to footage from Thursday.
Football management is a dangerous job, a very knowledgeable and experienced manager once described it as “muck” for me.
You’re always either ankle deep, knee deep, or up your neck in the stuff, according to his quote, which has always stuck with me.
Leeds manager Daniel Farke is most likely to believe he is the latter at the moment.
Farke received praise last season for both his efforts and his own promotion from the Championship.
Farke’s philosophy and all-around demeanor won him many fans, not just at Leeds but in football in general, because of the players who, at that level, played expansive and winning football.
A change in the direction of his own supporters.
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Farke’s stated goal for this season was to collect 38 points, or one point per game, which has proven to be sufficient to keep top-flight status every season since 2011-2012.
Farke was performing that ratio up until last weekend’s defeat by Aston Villa, but his fans have shifted their opinions. Most managers, who have experienced it themselves, would be aware of this moment.
The change that caused the audience to behave in a very negative way toward him is what is most concerning, even though, in my opinion, his team were playing really well against Villa.
They openly expressed their opinions on the selection of his team’s members.
I’ve previously stated that the players and supporters make up the majority of the game I enjoy, but I want to make a distinction here.
Fans who buy season tickets and spend their hard-earned money and time watching and traveling home and away from home and away in all weathers are less likely to object to criticism from fans on social media sites.
Many of these supporters, in my opinion, have a strong sense of their team’s culture and have the right to criticize. Any club’s decision-makers are much more influenced by their reaction.
You need context with any statistic, I say.
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It is amazing to have a team move from the Championship to the Premier League.
Farke has done it three times, once with Norwich (twice), and once with Leeds, but it’s ten times more challenging to follow it by upholding your team.
The same players who once rolled over Championship teams now find the situation much more difficult, both physically and mentally. Technically speaking, Leeds’ top league is relentless and unforgiving, as they demonstrated against Villa on Sunday.
However, the manager is always to blame. In the Premier League with both Norwich and Leeds, Farke’s win rate is 55%, but it drops to 15%.
Any manager’s ability to lead a successful team depends on recruitment, as we’ve seen in venues like Brighton, Bournemouth, and Brentford.
However, managers and coaches now have to rely on many more variables than I have ever had to handle the club. You need everything to be joined up, not just one of them, and recruiting is just one.
Just before the start of the season, Leeds appointed Sam Underwood as their football director. Sam has spent more than ten years with the club, and he has progressed from overseeing the academy to overseeing football operations, and this is where I don’t know him.
However, he has been given a lot of responsibility for managing transfers and selecting targets for the first team because this is his first time playing in this capacity. It would be interesting to see how the team has actually improved with the £100 million that was spent on new players over the summer.
The medical and sports science departments are also crucial. I think Leeds has done well in that regard given their current fitness levels this season.
I made sure I was in the middle of all of these different club activities when I was in charge because they all had the potential to have an impact on Saturday results.
A manager must make his own decisions, not him.
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One of my biggest frustrations with life, both in and out of football, is how organizations and politicians have become used to slam a particular initiative or initiative out of the public before deciding whether to proceed with it. It’s pretty cowardly in my opinion.
I was pleased to see Farke choose Brenden Aaronson against Villa when many Leeds supporters have made it clear they don’t believe he should be in the team. This is not a job where you should bow to public opinion.
Any manager who is trustworthy will have the knowledge and convictions to support his own judgment.
Any manager, successful or not, must always stand or fall on his own decisions regarding individual player choice, team shape, and identity, even though everyone will have opinions about who they would choose or not.
Any manager should have a winning streak, and I haven’t seen anyone leave a team that he doesn’t believe can win a game. Farke only makes the selection of players who fit the bill with everything he is attempting to achieve.
I wish him and Leeds success both urgently and economically.
“Winning conceals a multitude of sins.”
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Idrissa Gueye was sent off for his altercation with team-mate Michael Keane at Old Trafford on Monday, so this is a footnote.
It shows that they care, according to Everton manager David Moyes’ brilliant comments about his players’ so-called “punch-up.”
If Manchester United had lost, David, your team absolutely outsmarted them, but I’m curious what your two players’ reactions would have been if that had happened.
Winners conceal a wide range of sins, as was undoubtedly the case here.
When Ricardo Fuller and Andy Griffin engaged in a very similar fracas, and we lost the game late in the afternoon, I had the same experience as Stoke manager at West Ham in 2008.
They both hated losing and were fierce competitors. I immediately took Ricardo off the team bus and took him to the dressing room to make sure he was quickly bathed and changed before we arrived at the end of the game.
As a result, they weren’t at risk of fighting while the game was still in play and the tension was high.
Before I could sit them down personally, there was no way I wanted Ric and Andy in the dressing room at the same time.
We worked it out in training the day after the two players had a chance to relax.
