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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Tristan to move to Mallorca or Bolton

Diego Tristan has stated he will sign for Bolton or Real Mallorca next week.

The Spanish international striker is a free agent after being released by Deportivo La Coruna last week.

Because Depor released him before the transfer window closed, that meant he was eligible to move even after August 31.

He has now held talks with a host of clubs including a number from England, with Newcastle and Charlton rivalling Bolton.

However, the 30-year-old has now revealed that he has narrowed down his options to just two clubs.

"I will play in Mallorca or Bolton," he told the Spanish media.

"Now I have not decided the situation, but I will be in a place by this Monday."

Tristan's agent and father is believed to have held lengthy talks with Bolton over the last few days, whilst Mallorca will be hoping Tristan can resist the lure of The Premiership.

Centre Stage Productions

Centre Stage Productions

The Final What's On 2006
Centre Stage Productions - Palma de Mallorca
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3rd & 4th November At 9pm (21.00)
5th November At 8pm (20.00)

The Full Centre Stage Chorus And Dancers

La Magia Del Musical
(The Magic Of The Musical)

The Song - The Dance - The Spectacle

Sala Mozart - Auditorium - Palma
Tickets From The Box Office

This show was a total sell out last year... BEFORE the show even opened.
If you want seats - Be Safe - Be Sure - BOOK NOW!

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17th & 18th November At 8pm (20.00)

Centre Stage Junior Company Presents
A Christmas Concert

At the Coleman Hall - Anglican Church - Palma
Tickets From The Centre Stage Office: 971 22 15 30

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10th December At 5pm
For The 8th Year Running:

A Celebration Of Christmas

A Choir of Young People
From the International Schools of Mallorca

Under the direction of Conway Jones

Held in the awe inspiring:

Palma Cathedral

Free Admission
A Collection Will Be Taken In Aid Of The Ecumenical Movement

Picture Manzano - urged side to go for win

MANZANO PLEA TO MALLORCA

Mallorca coach Gregorio Manzano has urged his team to go for their first win of the season on Sunday when Deportivo La Coruna are the visitors to the Son Moix stadium.

The Balearic islanders were held 1-1 at Recreativo Huelva in their opening match of the campaign and, after two consecutive seasons where they have diced with relegation, Manzano is determined to pick up the points early in the season and keep them away from the danger zone.

Manzano has urged the crowd to get behind his team against high-flying Deportivo who occupied third spot after the first week of the season.

"I urge the supporters to get behind the team in the same way as they did towards the end of last season," Manzano told a press conference on Friday.

"Our stadium ought to be a fortress where we must always expect to take maximum points as it is very difficult to win games away from home.

"The supporters can play a fundamental role in making that happen."

Manzano has named an 18-man squad for the first home match of the season but has warned all of his players that none of them can take a starting berth for granted.

"Everyone of the 18 players I have called on for this match must prepare for it as if they are going to start it," said Manzano.

Venezuelan Juan Arango and Serbia international Branko Jankovic are both expected to play for Mallorca. Hector Berenguel is ruled out through injury but defender Nunes is likely to play after missing the Recreativo game through injury with Ivan Ramis the man likely to lose out.

Deportivo coach Joaquin Caparros had a worry about central defender Iago who injured an ankle in midweek but the stopper was able to train normally on Friday and is available for selection on Sunday.

Goalkeeper Dudu Aouate is available after playing for Israel in their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign while Caparros may rest Jonathan De Guzman who has had some tiring flights to and from Canada for their international with Jamaica.

With Juanma back in action after two months on the sidelines with a groin injury, the pieces are starting to come together for Caparros.

Deportivo made an excellent start to the season and lie in third place after beating big-spending Real Zaragoza 3-2 in their opener.

Striker Riki is excited at the potential of the Galician club but vowed a no-risk approach in the Balearics.

"The coach wants a compact team that is competitive and which will be difficult to beat," Riki told Marca.

"It's clear that away from home we will have to rely on our basic game and maybe play on the counter-attack because we are very fast and dangerous.

"That could be our most potent weapon."

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Stage-managed spin from start to finish

Daily Mail Comment
6th Septem
ber 2006


Nothing better sums up Tony Blair's time in office than his closest aides' toe-curling plans for his departure.


In a leaked memo, they say the great man should appear on Blue Peter, Songs of Praise and Chris Evans's radio show.


He should make a final tour of the nation, visiting "iconic locations"

and celebrating the "triumph of Blairism".

"He needs to go with the crowds wanting more.
He should be the star who won't even play that last encore…".

Lord, give us strength!


There are five flesh-creeping pages of this, recommending the Prime Minister should be "carefully positioned" to distance himself from the "political village".


So it is that Mr Blair's premiership is to end as it began - as an elaborately stage-managed public relations exercise, all style and no substance.


Tellingly, the Prime Minister's aides come close to admitting Mr Blair has achieved precious little of what he promised.

They write that his "genuine legacy" is not so much the delivery of his policies as the dominance of New Labour ideas.


You can say that again! All around us - in schools and hospitals and on our crime-ridden streets - can be seen the evidence of Mr Blair's failure to deliver on the confident pledges he made in 1997.


So what concrete achievements can he claim after all these years? The list makes dismal reading:


All-out war in Iraq and Afghanistan; a Human Rights Act that jeopardises our security by protecting terrorists; record immigration; devolution that makes nonsense of the constitution; countless billions wasted on grandiose computer systems that don't work; an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties; a preposterously expensive Millennium Dome, now mired in sleaze...Oh, yes...and a cash for peerages scandal.


No wonder Mr Blair's aides prefer to live in a fantasy world, in which their hero is pressed by adoring multitudes demanding "encore!".


Back on Planet Earth, with increasing numbers of Labour MPs queueing up at the door of No 10, Mr Blair finally caved in and named the date of his departure.


But even so, effective government is on hold until the succession is resolved. And that is nearly a year away.

What was it that memo said about the Prime Minister needing to go "with the crowds wanting more"? Sorry, Mr Blair, but it's far, far too late for that now.

St Paul in the dock

How can it be a crime to distribute leaflets containing quotations from the Bible?

That, believe it or not, is what led police to charge Stephen Green, of Christian Voice, with using "abusive or insulting words", contrary to the Public Order Act.


But the words complained of were not Mr Green's. They were those of St Paul and the prophet Leviticus, extracted from the Authorised Version of the Bible and distributed by members of Christian Voice at a gay rally in Cardiff.


Why did the police object?


For the same reason that they accused author Lynette Burrows of "homophobia" when she dared suggest that same-sex couples did not make ideal adoptive parents.


And the same reason Strathclyde firemen have been disciplined for refusing to attend a gay parade.


Mr Green's "crime" is to believe, along with St Paul and traditionalists of many faiths, that homosexual acts are sinful.

Not so long ago, gay intercourse was severely punished by law. Quite rightly, that has changed.


But what a slippery slope we tread if it is to become a crime to disapprove.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Centre Stage Productions

Centre Stage Productions

The Final What's On 2006
Centre Stage Productions - Palma de Mallorca
**********************

3rd & 4th November At 9pm (21.00)
5th November At 8pm (20.00)

The Full Centre Stage Chorus And Dancers

La Magia Del Musical
(The Magic Of The Musical)

The Song - The Dance - The Spectacle

Sala Mozart - Auditorium - Palma
Tickets From The Box Office

This show was a total sell out last year... BEFORE the show even opened.
If you want seats - Be Safe - Be Sure - BOOK NOW!

**********************

17th & 18th November At 8pm (20.00)

Centre Stage Junior Company Presents
A Christmas Concert

At the Coleman Hall - Anglican Church - Palma
Tickets From The Centre Stage Office: 971 22 15 30

**********************

10th December At 5pm
For The 8th Year Running:

A Celebration Of Christmas

A Choir of Young People
From the International Schools of Mallorca

Under the direction of Conway Jones

Held in the awe inspiring:

Palma Cathedral

Free Admission
A Collection Will Be Taken In Aid Of The Ecumenical Movement

Centre Stage Productions

The Final What's On 2006
Centre Stage Productions
**********************

3rd & 4th November At 9pm (21.00)
5th November At 8pm (20.00)

The Full Centre Stage Chorus And Dancers

La Magia Del Musical
(The Magic Of The Musical)

The Song - The Dance - The Spectacle

Sala Mozart - Auditorium - Palma
Tickets From The Box Office

This show was a total sell out last year... BEFORE the show even opened.
If you want seats - Be Safe - Be Sure - BOOK NOW!

**********************

17th & 18th November At 8pm (20.00)

Centre Stage Junior Company Presents
A Christmas Concert

At the Coleman Hall - Anglican Church - Palma
Tickets From The Centre Stage Office: 971 22 15 30

**********************

10th December At 5pm
For The 8th Year Running:

A Celebration Of Christmas

A Choir of Young People
From the International Schools of Mallorca

Under the direction of Conway Jones

Held in the awe inspiring:

Palma Cathedral

Free Admission
A Collection Will Be Taken In Aid Of The Ecumenical Movement
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