The pair went head to head on Wednesday as Messi’s Barcelona hosted Hazard’s Chelsea in a Champions League last-16 encounter, and it was the Argentine who came out comprehensively on top. Messi scored after only a couple of minutes to give Barca the edge, setting the path for a 3-0 victory, which saw them progress to the quarter-finals 4-1 on aggregate. The impact Hazard had on the game, meanwhile, was minimal and typified the difference between the two players....

With Louis van Gaal’s options depleted by injury, the talented teenager was thrust into a Europa League clash with Midtjylland by the Red Devils manager. Why Mou’s not sure about Shaw Any fears that the stage may be too big for a relatively untested academy graduate were eased over the course of 90 impressive minutes as Rashford netted a deadly double. Twelve months on and the 19-year-old is now an established first team star at Old Trafford and a senior international who graced Euro 2016 with England....

The France international was taken to Old Trafford by the Dutch coach in a big-money transfer in the summer of 2015. Cantona’s most controversial moments He arrived as one of the most highly-rated midfielders in the Premier League, but left for Everton in January 2017 having struggled to make the expected impact. Schneiderlin believes that is down to the methods of a manager who tried to stifle him, with Van Gaal seeking to turn him into a different player than the one he signed....

England left-back Rose apologised on Friday for comments made in an interview with The Sun, where he urged Spurs to sign top players that you do not “have to Google” and suggested he and other stars at the club were underpaid. Spurs reportedly fined Rose two weeks’ wages, while the left-back will be out of action at the start of the new Premier League campaign regardless due to a knee injury....

Shared to the TikTok account @lordfoldemort, the video was viewed more than two million times and sparked a conversation in the comments section about the sweet moment and the benefits of fostering animals. According to Feline Foster, animal shelters may work with volunteers who provide a home to an animal in need of a place to live. That animal lives with the volunteer for a certain period of time as it prepares for adoption....

The 26-year-old was snapped up by the Gunners from Cardiff City after bursting onto the scene as a talented teenager. Mazzola: Alexis perfect for Inter He was carefully introduced to the first team fold at Emirates Stadium and is now an established senior star for club and country. Ramsey has not always been fully appreciated in north London, though, with his game often frustrating as much as it excites....

“Could you get someone over here now, to 325 Gretna Green. He’s back. Please,” asks Nicole Simpson. “What does he look like?” asks the operator. “He’s O. J. Simpson. I think you know his record,” she says, with a tremor of panic. Simpson, she explains, had broken down the back door of her house. “Is he threatening you?” She begins to sob. “He’s f—ing going nuts.” The Simpson case continued to obsess the nation last week....

The pair will square off in just under six weeks’ time after Harrison answered the call to face Tszyu following an injury to original opponent and undisputed champion Jermell Charlo. Harrison, 32, is the only man to have defeated Charlo and believes a win over Tszyu will put him back in the box seat for a third fight with the injured champion after Charlo stopped him in their 2019 rematch....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/DiscardedSandwiches said she recently used a dating app for the first time, and recounted how she reacted when her date assumed he would be spending the night with her. Titled, “AITA for telling a first date at the end of our ‘date’ he couldn’t stay with me,” the now-deleted post has received nearly 8,000 votes and 1,000 comments. Writing that she is new to meeting people on the internet, u/DiscardedSandwiches said she refuses to reveal where she lives to anyone she is just meeting, and that she lets potential dates know that in advance....

The Barcelona icon revealed at the end of last month he would be leaving Camp Nou after 16 seasons at the club, during which he won nine La Liga titles and the Champions League four times. After reports of a switch to Chongqing Lifan were denied by the Chinese Super League side, Kobe emerged as the surprise frontrunners for Iniesta’s signature. And on Wednesday the Spain midfielder posted a photo of himself on board an aircraft with Japanese billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, the owner of the J-League club....

So when one of the cofounders of Burning Man, John Law, filed a federal lawsuit last week in an effort to make the festival’s name and trademark public, some Burners cheered—elated by the idea of Burning Man as a populist entity. That’s because the Burning Man festival, despite its counterculture image, is actually operated by a real corporation—two, in fact: Black Rock City LLC and Paper Man LLC, which was formed in 1997 between Law and the two other original owners to control the name and service mark, “Burning Man....

Brigham said that the KNP Complex Fire, which ignited on September 9 from a lightning strike, has burned into 15 of the parks’ giant sequoia groves. The effect of the blaze on the trees varied, with fires burning at a low- or medium-intensity level in most groves, which Brigham said many of the trees have evolved to endure. Two of the groves, however, seemed to have been hit by high-intensity fire that can shoot flames up to 100 feet high, AP reported....

This balance update, announced just a few days after the expansion was released, amounts to a quick reaction from Blizzard. Though this patch won’t destroy the power of Shaman, it should curb its influence in the early to mid-game. Sludge Slurper losing one attack might not seem like the biggest deal, but when the same nerf was applied to Leper Gnome back in 2016, the card dropped drastically in popularity....

Sam Felstead, a receptionist at Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham, England, told the BBC on Wednesday, that her cat Billy jumped on her in the middle of the night while she slept and started meowing. When she awoke, she realized she couldn’t move the right side of her body, so her mom rushed her to the hospital, where she learned she had a heart attack in her sleep. “He [Billy] doesn’t normally sit with me but he knew something was wrong because he wouldn’t leave me alone,” Felstead said....

In reality, the real Wong, born as Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles in 1905, was never nominated for an Academy Award, and many felt that her best chance at a nomination was in a film she was unable to get a part in. In the early 1930s, Wong had moved to Britain after she became tired of either playing Asian stereotypes or losing out the roles she wanted to other actors....

June 2018 is when Simeone’s contract as head coach expires at Atletico after he negotiated a reduction in the length of his deal following the 2015-16 Champions League final loss to Real Madrid. Atletico boss Simeone reveals future Simeone could yet re-sign with the La Liga title challengers, though the 47-year-old has spoken openly of his desire to take over at former club Inter in Serie A. Speaking exclusively to Omnisport, Garcia was asked whether 2017-18 could really be Simeone’s final season in charge of Atletico and the former Spain attacker said: “It depends on a few factors....

With that focus, the HBO hit has made several time jumps already. In Episode 3, Alicent is heavily pregnant and in Episode 4 her child is well past the newborn stage, for example. But for Carey, who uses she/they pronouns, the “genius” creative team made it easy to approach as an actor, they explained to Newsweek. ‘House of the Dragon’s’ Emily Carey Defends Show Structure: ‘It’s Ambitious’ House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, when the Targaryen dynasty was at its peak and King Viserys I (Paddy Considine) was on the Iron Throne....

Titled I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, the film follows the cases of Dutch Pastafarians, which began in 2016, as they fight to have their religion recognized, so they can wear colanders—one official form of dress for members of the FSM church—on their heads in driver’s license photos. While this may seem like a ridiculous thing to fight for, director Mike Arthur uses the conflict as a gateway to a more serious and in-depth discussion about religion....

She died when I was in college, but to this day, that memory still makes me laugh. Her spirit was so amazing. So I was actually very aware of Parkinson’s disease from a young age. I get chills thinking about that now. My first inkling that something was not right with me was probably in graduate school. I would try to lift myself out of bed after taking a nap, and it would feel so difficult....

Dortmund have tumbled to sixth in the Bundesliga, with the 5-0 DFB-Pokal win over third-tier Magdeburg standing as their only victory in the past 12 matches across all competitions. The collapse from 4-0 up against Schalke two weeks ago, which saw Revierderby end in a stunning 4-4 draw, reportedly prompted emergency discussions between Bosz and his squad. Speaking ahead of Saturday’s home game against second-bottom Werder Bremen, the former Ajax boss insisted this version of events was wide of the mark....