England need to make light of Montenegro wind-ups and not lump it | Daniel Taylor

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Roy Hodgson has sufficient incentive to win without using Branko Brnovi? is "mind games" as a source of motivation

It was perhaps a deliberate tactic Branko Brnovi? get into the skin of players Roy Hodgson. If this is the case, it was one of the most original attempts looking down on the opposition or even accuracy especially after a little research had been done. Montenegro, are found to be partial ball on top occasional themselves. Official statistics indicate that the long ball in 12.6%. England - unrefined lump-it-up England - are 9.55%. Only Spain, Germany and Belgium have reached less back-to-front passes in the program of World Cup qualifying.

"Mind Games" Hodgson called. That should be enough for all eyes. We know what to expect if England wins also: iron to provide an absolute guarantee that a player stuck reveal all the clippings about being "scared" and "arrogant", all courtesy of Brnovi?, on the wall of the lodge as a source of motivation.

The truth is that it does not really work that way and probably England should have sufficient incentive without over-analyze some comments, see-through head of the opposition. There are, after all, the chance to go five points behind Montenegro if England loses. This could become eight when traveling to Ukraine in June of Podgorica in a group where only winners are automatically eligible. Currently, Portugal, Sweden, Croatia, and most terrible of all, Spain is a possible rival in November playoffs. This should sharpen the mind.

This is, of course, is the worst, when England turn can take a position of real strength in Group H. "If we win, we go to the top three of the last four games at Wembley," said Hodgson. "We will also have players returning from the team that, unfortunately, lost this time." It is refreshing to hear someone see beyond the ordinary English contemplate the bad news first.

Montenegro, however, can not be taken lightly in all respects. It is true that the entire population of the Balkan countries is lower than that of Leeds and the National Stadium is a classic old fourth division. It is also a fact that this team has not lost in his own country for 16 months and was unbeaten until 2012.

This will be the toughest test since he left England for Euro 2012 against Italy and they will take care of the ball much better.

• As peripheral issues, there were some nonsense during the last days. The idea, for example, a series of the best English players of Liverpool, Chelsea and the two Manchester clubs might somehow be intimidated by a stadium that has 12,000 people. Hodgson was recalled Monday that the seat had been thrown into the Polish goalkeeper. A local journalist told how England was "warmly received" when Fabio Capello led by hand, in October 2011, to the extent that local fans cheered God Save The Queen. However, it is noisy inside the city stadium, there is nothing like the atmosphere when playing Wayne Rooney against Anfield. Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard, James Milner
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are strong characters.

Rooney has been a hotly debated topic in particular received a red card for kicking the 2-2 draw. What was not mentioned is that he had only seven yellow cards in 73 games since. In all cases, it should be more worrying as it tends to play within himself when the control is in your temperament. Rooney made stupid decisions in their time. But it is Mario Balotelli.

"The important thing is to make sure that players are confident and able to work," said Hodgson. "That we do things that we are proud to do so. One will be our lawyer. Will work hard to get behind the ball when you lose, people working hard to close, tighten the game and not give technical actors the opportunity to showcase their skills.

"But when we get the ball forward quickly switch to start passing the ball in areas that hurt them. We want our way of problems for the opposition. and I have players who can do it. "
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Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes

Of Virginia Woolf androgyny breast in anguish Philip Roth, author of a fictional tribute to Will Self chooses books that play double game with sex

seemed logical that my novel, a tribute to Will Self, novelist our most alive, must contain genders transfiguration. Once I said it often felt like a nervous animal, women in the body of a man big and strong. His novel plays with Cock & Bull on changes in genital type (see below), and is particularly adept at creating female characters, which could in time Audrey Shortage umbrella. Thus, the essence of Will Self also plays with sex.

The novel begins with a girl named Sylvie who has a sex change and undergoes plastic surgery to look like yourself, she gargles with salt on a daily basis to mimic the tone his guttural voice. The last section is narrated by Sam Mills, a male novelist, has developed a fetish for making love to a woman with a mask of his own will. I got my first publishing contract Faber round in 2005, pretending to be a man, androgynous ambiguity advantage of my name, my book was intended for male readers. Symmetrical with Will, I suffer from gender dysmorphia, I used to feel like an angry young man trapped in a woman's body ...

1. Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Orlando, Woolf biography fantastic saves the life of 400 years of Mr. Orlando. It starts as a noble in the court of Elizabeth I, and 30 falls in a dream and wakes up as a woman. Woolf believed that the creative mind is androgynous. As a woman, Orlando does not feel different - but certainly society treats them differently. The female Orlando realizes he can not inherit his beautiful home, their securities are delivered and pending properties from the Chancery. All disguise, can not escape society has imposed restrictions on this.

2. Ovid's Metamorphoses

dazzling epic Ovid includes sex change in abundance. Hyenas sex change. Iphis development of a child in a man by Io. Teacher becomes a man and vice versa several times Neptune. Ashes Orion girl changing two young. Tiresias became a wife and a new man. Sithon becomes male and female, and the female becomes Caenis Caeneus.

3. Cock & Bull by Will Self

Cock and Bull

are a pair of thematically related novels, each containing a remarkable metamorphosis. In the first, a bored housewife discovers she is growing a penis in the second Bull, John, a rugby player is critical cabaret, wakes up one morning to find a vagina more in addition to the back of the knee. Self explores the fluidity and mutability of gender and satire successfully "a world in which the social and sexual lives already launched and dressed like a salad."

. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Eugenides Pulitzer Prize-winning epic is narrated by Cal Stephanides (initially called "Callie"), a hermaphrodite born with a "little saffron" a penis. Initially, he / she looks like a child, but in adolescence, their sexual ambiguity is revealed by a medical examination. A sex therapist tells her parents that gender identity is determined by the development of sex assignment and rearing, not biology, and recommends that Calliope should be "castrated" and continue to live as a woman . Instead, Cal flees, resigns from her feminine identity and lives his life as a man. However, remarked: "I never felt out of place being a girl, not yet at ease among men."

5. By Gore Vidal Myra Brekinridge

• Myra was denounced as pornographic and obscene when it was published in 1968. However, it has come to be regarded by some as a classic American satire. At the beginning of the novel, Myra boasts about big tits and nice, although there was a suspicion that he might be an unreliable narrator with the whole "I am free of the pain that is persistent dull my glory particular the price paid with so much joy to Myra Breckinridge? "She takes a job in a theater school and takes one of his students" tacos "that his first victim, pulling him to the infirmary, where he was tied up and violated a strap-on dildo. When injured in a car accident, however, reveals that Myra is really Myron. His injuries prevented him from taking hormone treatment and force her to have her breast implants removed. At the end of the novel, she comes back to life as a man and enjoys the happiness heterosexual with a lover, Mary Ann.

6. Mother of Philip Roth
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Why Wigan beating Everton in FA Cup would mean so much to Dave Whelan

After suffering an injury in the game to end his career in the Cup final in 1960, the chairman of Wigan are looking for more good memories of Wembley

Dave Whelan is recalling the 1960 FA Cup final and the day he suffered a broken leg that ended his career playing top flight at the age of 23 years. It is a sunny afternoon and a dark story that has been revised several times in the past 53 years, but this time, as he repeats in the memory stress the continuing importance of the FA Cup, employers frank opinions dissolves hardened view. Face more and more red, the voice becomes weak and begins to cry.

"Sorry. Sorry," said the chairman of Wigan Athletic he is quiet and accelerates the Press Club back with a glass of water and a cloth. Talking Wembley caused unexpected turn in the interview, which reduces the 76-year-old in tears and a panel of journalists to silence in the apartments of the President at the DW Stadium. Wigan can recover overcoming Whelan Everton on Saturday in the quarter final. He returned several times since he was injured while playing for Blackburn Rovers against Wolverhampton Wanderers to play-offs, international former England and his role as owner of the club Wigan Warriors rugby league. This would mean a lot more.

"To say that it would be interesting would be to underestimate everything," says Whelan. "It would be extraordinary. Whether someone has not played at Wembley for the final of the FA Cup and then came here as club president and led the team. "

History

septuagenarian FA Cup is not rosy. Whelan was in his fourth year as an advocate for Rovers on 42 minutes when the end of 1960, is committed to a challenge that would change the course of his life. "There was a ball placed between Norman Deeley and me," he recalls. "We both have the ball. Gave me the ball and I had, but I did not say it was deliberate, because accidents happen when the two fight like hell for the ball. It came on top, no doubt about it. always asparagus I have two marks on the leg., but I do not think it was deliberate.

"After that, I was taken on a stretcher. There was no injections so calming. Fortunately, Wembley hospital doctor, who was Polish, had watched the game and I knew I broke my leg. leads directly to the hospital because she knew I was coming in. I was in severe pain, he really was. When they took me out of the ambulance waiting outside with a shot that hit him directly in the leg and killed the pain in a minute. put his leg and when I arrived, it was about five years and I was pushed in a hospital corridor I woke up .... and I cry now ... how we went in? said he lost three to zero. And I started to cry. always sorry. "

tears at this point. "It's horrible when you have an accident like this," said Whelan through them. Deeley, although also injured in the collision, Wolves scored twice won the Cup Whelan joined the victims of "The Wembley Hoodoo", named after a succession of late in the 1950s were marked by the serious injury - Roy Dwight broken leg in 1959, a fractured cheekbone and brief unconsciousness Wood Ray in 1957, Bert Trautmann broke his neck in 1956 and a broken leg in 1955 by Jimmy Meadows. Surprising by Nat Lofthouse on Harry Gregg in 1958 was considered tame in comparison.

Whelan theorizes. "At this stage of the season, we used to play on courts that were used, the wet grass and they had two when you went to Wembley, touch, bounce, grass, everything was totally different from the earth had played. No wonder you have injuries because players are not used to playing on grass as rich as this. What changed after I broke my leg because we had three finals absolutely ruined by playing 10 men 11 to more than half of the game. FA introduced a replacement. "

Wigan has not come so far in the FA Cup since Whelan bought the club in 1995. Recent prospects have not been helped by the young Roberto Martinez blooding in the competition and is committed to making changes to Goodison Park in search of a winning formula for the Premier League. Wigan manager priorities, and values ??of its President, it seems impossible to reconcile.

Whelan admits: "Sometimes I think .." It does not take the FA Cup seriously enough here, "but we are in a struggle to stay in the Premier League is not new, but Roberto Roberto FA Cup is considered very high, which he himself played, and who knows what it means to the English game. I do not know what the team will play Everton, do not ask me and I never pressed. But sometimes it's disappointing when the teams complete a second team and get out. Then you must ask yourself if the football club manager or realize how special the FA Cup. "

SaturSaturday the quarterfinals is a rarity in the rules of the Premier League - a competition between two teams belonging to local boys done good. For a traditionalist like Whelan, an evening with your loved one FA Cup and Wigan with Bill Kenwright is necessary to end a four-week stay in Barbados.

"It's disappointing when you go to a club like Liverpool last season, and there is not a soul in the boardroom," said the chairman of Wigan.
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