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Retired British couple Jane and Alan Kelvey spoke to BBC’s Newsnight after coming into close contact with Russian frigate the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday morning.
“They gave out five blasts on their horn, which means, have you seen us?”, explained Jane.
“We immediately turned two degrees to port so that they could see we’d made a deliberate change, of course, which meant we had seen them,” she added.
The Russian Defence Ministry said the yacht had been on a “dangerous approach” towards the warship, and its crew fired into its path with rifles after making several attempts to contact it over the radio and after launching warning flares.
The Ministry of Defence has described the encounter as an “isolated incident” and not linked to the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Channel on Sunday.
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My, that was an action-packed conclusion to France v Senegal, wasn’t it? We can only hope for half the excitement in the other half of Group I between two teams that have not played in the World Cup* this century.
Norway last played in the World Cup* in 1998 and upset Brazil to reach the knockout rounds. They also appeared the last time the Cup was held in the USA in 1994, missing out on the knockout rounds in peculiar fashion – four teams tied with four points and an even goal difference. Norway only scored once; therefore, they were the odd team out. Italy opened that group with a loss to Ireland and scraped into the knockout rounds as one of the third-place teams. Heard they made a bit of a run after that.
Iraq last played in the World Cup* in 1986, before any of the current players were born. (I was a rising senior in high school, but it’s safe to say their appearance isn’t something I recall, as I was mostly fretting about calculus and my lack of dating options.) They’re seeking their first World Cup point, having dropped all three matches in 1986, though only by one goal each. They’ve fared relatively well in Asian Cup play since the unlamented demise of the Hussein family, including the 2007 championship.
(* – technically, at least in ancient parlance, the “World Cup” includes the qualifiers, and the final 32, er, 48 teams are participating in the “World Cup finals.” So it’s not quite correct to say they haven’t played in the World Cup recently. I pledge to be less pedantic the rest of this session.)
Hello all, and I hope you’re all enjoying the debate over the no-call in the France-Senegal match (unanimous view in the referees’ message board I frequent: correct no-call) and also the goal that followed.
Follow along with Daniel Harris, and I’ll be back with a proper preamble when that one has ended.
Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Nick Ames on Norway’s return to the World Cup:
If Norway’s highly fancied generation need a warning from history they need only look back 32 years and study the lessons from another searing, suspenseful American summer. They had raced through qualifying at England’s expense to reach their first World Cup since 1938; their top players were starting to make it in the Premier League and through the euphoria shone a confidence that a place in the knockout stage, at least, was there to be seized.
“When we got there we didn’t manage to even get close to the quality of play we had produced in qualification,” remembers Lars Bohinen, one of the silkier elements in a side that, under Egil Olsen, became renowned for an uncompromising and no-frills approach. “That’s the biggest disappointment when I talk now to my old teammates. We never got near to performing at the level we needed.”
In fact Norway were a shade unfortunate. Planted in a strength-sapping group alongside Mexico, Republic of Ireland and Italy, they finished fourth despite the teams finishing level on points and goal difference. Their failure came in attack; Olsen’s side were eliminated because they only scored once, beating Mexico before ultimately running aground in a famously sweltering goalless draw against Jack Charlton’s team at Giants Stadium.
This year’s Group I does not look much easier. But the dynamic of Norwegian football is different now; the not entirely inaccurate picture of burly Vikings replaced by elite, technically supreme talents in the moulds of Martin Ødegaard and Antonio Nusa. There is an Erling Haaland-shaped spearhead to convert chances that flow more frequently in Ståle Solbakken’s fast, flexible set-up.
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