England coach, Roy Hodgson, left, and Wales counterpart Chris Coleman will see their sides meet at Euro 2016 in France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
England coach, Roy Hodgson, left, and Wales counterpart Chris Coleman will see their sides meet at Euro 2016 in France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Euro 2016: England coach Roy Hodgson rejects talk of Wales’ being a ‘one-man team’ in Gareth Bale



Roy Hodgson has warned that it will be a mistake to view Wales as a one-man team when England come up against Gareth Bale & Co at Euro 2016 in June.

Bale scored seven of Wales’ 11 goals in the qualifying campaign but the England manager said his opposite number Chris Coleman will have contingency plans in mind if something happens to the Real Madrid star.

The British teams meet on June 16 in Lens in an afternoon kick off for their second match of Group B, with Hodgson’s side playing Russia first in Marseille on June 11 and Slovakia the final opponents in St Etienne on June 20.

“If people are going to tell me that Wales are a team who relies on one man then I don’t accept that; you can never build a team around one player,” Hodgson said.

“At the moment Gareth Bale might be scoring a goal a game but come June that might not be the case, or he might be injured.

“I have a certain experience of that happening and disrupting your plans: Chris has been able to put together a more settled team than us.

“We have had a number of our players not available through injury. You cannot rely on a fixed team.”

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Hodgson has been buoyed by top-level backing from the English Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn that he is the man the governing body want to take England to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, if his team can demonstrate progress at next summer’s European Championship.

No specific target has been set. It is thought that reaching the quarter-finals with England viewed as playing good football would be viewed as enough progress, especially coming from the low base of the disappointment of last year’s World Cup humiliation and elimination after just two matches.

England did reach the Euro 2012 quarter-finals when Hodgson had only been in charge a few weeks, but the performances were low on style.

Hodgson, 68, says his current squad, which won every match in qualification, is a very different beast to even the 2014 set-up.

He added: “Every generation has different players. The team playing for England now is quite different from 2014 and completely different from 2012. I don’t base my thinking on what’s happened in the past.

“We must respect our other opponents, too. Slovakia is a country I like and admire which had a fantastic qualifying campaign. Martin Skrtel was a very good player when I was at Liverpool and he’s even better now, a really important player for Slovakia.

“Russia too is a team I have met in my coaching career, but they qualified well and are a threat.”

The FA will now start planning in earnest for the tournament, with officials making visits to the three venues for England’s group games, while work is already under way on the training base at Chantilly.

Three teams from each group could qualify, with 16 out of the 24 finalists going into the knockout stage. Whoever wins Group B will be certain of facing a team that finished third in another group, meaning there is a good chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.

Northern Ireland have a tough task after being drawn in Group C with world champions Germany, Poland and Ukraine, while Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland side may have an even more daunting tournament having to face Belgium, currently top of the Fifa world rankings, Italy and Sweden in Group E.

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Veil (Object Lessons)
Rafia Zakaria
​​​​​​​Bloomsbury Academic

Milestones on the road to union

1970

October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar. 

December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.

1971

March 1:  Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.

July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.

July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.

August 6:  The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.

August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.

September 3: Qatar becomes independent.

November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.

November 29:  At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.

November 30: Despite  a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa. 

November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties

December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.

December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.

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Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Akshaye Khanna, Diana Penty, Vineet Kumar Singh, Rashmika Mandanna

Rating: 1/5

MATCH INFO

England 241-3 (20 ovs)

Malan 130 no, Morgan 91

New Zealand 165 all out (16.5ovs)

Southee 39, Parkinson 4-47

England win by 76 runs

Series level at 2-2

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The smuggler

Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple. 
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.

Khouli conviction

Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.

For sale

A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.

- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico

- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000

- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950

23-man shortlist for next six Hall of Fame inductees

Tony Adams, David Beckham, Dennis Bergkamp, Sol Campbell, Eric Cantona, Andrew Cole, Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba, Les Ferdinand, Rio Ferdinand, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Roy Keane, Frank Lampard, Matt Le Tissier, Michael Owen, Peter Schmeichel, Paul Scholes, John Terry, Robin van Persie, Nemanja Vidic, Patrick Viera, Ian Wright.

Other ways to buy used products in the UAE

UAE insurance firm Al Wathba National Insurance Company (AWNIC) last year launched an e-commerce website with a facility enabling users to buy car wrecks.

Bidders and potential buyers register on the online salvage car auction portal to view vehicles, review condition reports, or arrange physical surveys, and then start bidding for motors they plan to restore or harvest for parts.

Physical salvage car auctions are a common method for insurers around the world to move on heavily damaged vehicles, but AWNIC is one of the few UAE insurers to offer such services online.

For cars and less sizeable items such as bicycles and furniture, Dubizzle is arguably the best-known marketplace for pre-loved.

Founded in 2005, in recent years it has been joined by a plethora of Facebook community pages for shifting used goods, including Abu Dhabi Marketplace, Flea Market UAE and Arabian Ranches Souq Market while sites such as The Luxury Closet and Riot deal largely in second-hand fashion.

At the high-end of the pre-used spectrum, resellers such as Timepiece360.ae, WatchBox Middle East and Watches Market Dubai deal in authenticated second-hand luxury timepieces from brands such as Rolex, Hublot and Tag Heuer, with a warranty.

A MINECRAFT MOVIE

Director: Jared Hess

Starring: Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge, Jason Momoa

Rating: 3/5

The White Lotus: Season three

Creator: Mike White

Starring: Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Natasha Rothwell

Rating: 4.5/5

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