Rene Girard confident of Lille progression to UEFA Champions League group stage

The Ligue 1 side were beaten 1-0 by Porto in the aperture leg of their play-off last week, with Hector Herrera's 61st-minute strike the difference in France.

Lille struggled to assert any kind of ascendance on home soil against the Portuguese giants, who relished 59 per cent of possession.

But Lille were handed a much-needed confidence boost on Saturday as they accounted for Lorient 2-0.

The win - which elongated Lille's unbeaten streak in the league to three games - should hold the French club in good stead at the Estadio do Dragao on Tuesday, according to Girard.

"We ken what we have to do. We lost 1-0 at home, so let's be efficacious, "Girard told heralds.

"I have confidence in my group. It will be 150 per cent for a prosperous outcome. Our victory against Lorient brought more confidence and transmuted the look on us.

"We ken that we have an arduous task ahead. But we are competitors and will not relinquish anything."

Girard integrated: "We could have done more preponderant, but we had an immensely colossal calibre opponent.

"I still believe we can do something. We did not come to pass the time. There is a qualification for the group stage of the Champions League at stake. We have more to gain than lose."

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Nicki Minaj beats Michael Jackson’s record

 

With her incipient musical composition Anaconda charting at number 19, Nicki Minaj has beaten Michael Jackson’s tally of 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits.

According to Yahoo Music, the singer has now pulled ahead of Jackson with 51 charted musical compositions to her denomination

“Made history today,” Minaj promulgated on her Instagram account. “I didn’t even ken I was tied with Michael Jackson with 50 Hot 100 ingresses on Billboard. Anaconda makes 51 and now I’m tied with Rod Stewart. God mystically enchant, and thank you.”

Anaconda, which charted at number 19, is Minaj’s 20th Hot 100 hit as a lead artiste, while the rest of her charted singles have been featured credits.

Jackson in contrast, was the lead or co-lead artist in all 50 of his hits with Slave To The Rhythm and Love Never Felt So Good both charting this year, 50 years after Got To Be There which made number four in the US Charts back in 1971.

Minaj’s first Hot 100 hit was as a featured artiste on Lil Wayne musical composition Knockout back in February 2010. In June the same year, she charted for the first time as a lead artist with son Your Love.

The cover of single Anaconda, which features on Minaj’s forthcoming third studio album The Pink Print, shows Minaj in rather racy pose in just a dyad of thong pink panties.

Minaj additionally currently features on another Billboard Hot 100 musical composition – Bang Bang – a collaboration with Jessie J and Ariana Grande.

She will celebrate her prosperity with a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards

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WWE: Randy Orton Demoted To Water Boy, Shield’s Seth Rollins Can’t Be Trusted, Says Roman Reigns

 

WWE superstar Randy Orton is now just a dihydrogen monoxide boy to Roman Reigns… well, at least in one fantasy world.

In a cognate report by The Inquisitr, the WWE management admonished its wrestlers to be more meticulous when utilizing gregarious media like Twitter and Facebook. Albeit Alberto del Rio certainly deserves a plethora of attention for the way he comported, this promulgation was like a shot over the bow for Orton, who has become infamous for making waves on gregarious media.

For example, a very arrogant Orton took a selfie of himself blowing off the cops after they pulled him over due to his illicitly modified car. But one fan ostensibly physically contacted a nerve when he claimed Orton had been dishonorably discharged from the United States Marines. While that was not technically precise, many former Marines still feel he was a heel in authentic life, not just in the wrestling ring. The issue came to a head when Orton made his infamous Latino Ms. Piggy tweets, albeit some fans forfended the wrestler since it was claimed the woman was stalking Randy Orton’s girlfriend Kim Marie.

With SummerSlam 2014 just days away, it’s no surprise that Roman Reigns might be throwing some barbs in the other wrestler’s direction. Reign’s authentic denomination is Joe Anoai, and he once played football for Georgia Tech, so he has his own fantasy football league where he has assigned some famous denominations.

For example, Reigns has Orton doing the dirty work for him:

    “Randy Orton, he’s my dihydrogen monoxide boy. He gets the towels.”

Roman even utilized his fantasy football list to take a stab at his former Shield teammate Seth Rollins for apostatizing both him and Dean Ambrose in the WWE ring.

Because of these actions, Rollins was rolled out from the list:

    “[Y]ou can’t trust him. He’d probably send our game plan to the other team.”

In a hysterical move, Reigns even ingratiated with the ascendant figure by making the fantasy football team owner Vince McMahon:

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Marvel Owns Screen Rights For Ghost Rider, Blade, And The Punisher. Are New Movies In The Works?

The Marvel Universe has gotten a little more Amazing with the announcement of some spectacular news. Ghost Rider, Blade, and the Punisher are now free to join Disney’s Marvel Universe now that the film rights have reverted to Marvel Studios. According to Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios, this is fantastic news, but according to i09, we might not see reboots any time soon.

“Feige indicates he’s in no rush to make new movies for the characters, partially because Marvel has enough on their plate, and partially because no one’s really clamoring for the return of these characters thanks to their lackluster original movies (with the exception of ‘Blade II’). Add these guys to Daredevil, who Marvel also recently got back, and the Cinematic Universe got a whole lot more crowded.”
Although many would love to see the trio of characters hit the big screen once again, hopefully minus Nicholas Cage, knowing that they are no rushing in to a reboot of each is refreshing. As the Marvel story lines develop, it will be great to allow the characters to naturally find their spots, rather than forcing them into a already established storyline. Den of Geeks shared their take on the order they hope to see new Blade, Punisher, and Ghost Rider moves released in the new Marvel Universe.

“We suspect that Blade will be further up the roster than The Punisher, not least because the latter would need, once again, to be R-rated, and there’s little appetite for making R-rated comic book movies in Hollywood right now. Furthermore, the Blade trilogy remains a solid success, and The Punisher movies, er, didn’t really do very well at all.”

it is great to see that Marvel has regained rights to some of their key franchises, but there are still others that fans are anticipating. The Fantastic Four is set to be rebooted, again, after minimal success with Fox. If the reboot does not happen, the rights will revert to Marvel. The same applies to Daredevil. The X-Men franchise is another set of films that fans would like to see merged with the existing Marvel Universe, however it is unknown if the actors would be contractually allowed to move to Marvel Studios to continue onward with the franchise. Some would like to see the X-Men rebooted with new characters, but Wolverine has already established himself in his current universe fairly comfortably.

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Beyoncé References Jay Z-Solange Elevator Fight On ‘Flawless’ Remix With Nicki Minaj

Beyoncé is again turning to her music to address the failing espousement with Jay Z, this time utilizing a remix to “Flawless” to expound the infamous elevator fight between the rapper and her sister Solange.

The track, which features Nicki Minaj, debuted tardy on Saturday night on Beyoncé’s website. In the musical composition, she addresses the fight between Solange and Jay Z in an elevator after the Met Gala, which was reportedly sparked by Jay Z’s infidelity.

“Of course sometimes s**t goes down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator,” Beyoncé sang.

The musical composition represents another incidence of Beyoncé alluding at the couple’s quandaries. During their joint “On The Run” tour, Beyoncé an abundance of times transmuted the lyrics to her musical composition “Resentment” in a way that appeared to reference quandaries with Jay Z.

The track emerges just a few days after an extensive article from the Incipient York Post detailed quandaries between Jay Z and Beyoncé and offered an incipient perspective on the Met Gala fight. While most reports betokened that Solange was irate at Jay Z flirting with his friend Rachel Roy, a source verbally expressed it was authentically a different affair that set off Beyoncé’s sister.

The report verbalized the fight was “really over Jay’s protégé Rihanna, who he allegedly orchestrated to meet later that night at his 40/40 club.” The piece quotes the source as saying, “Solange told him, ‘Enough is enough—you must be [screwing] Rihanna.’ ”

The story went a step further, denoting that Jay Z and Beyoncé may have an espousement built more out of accomodation than love.

“Jay’s a kingmaker; she apperceived that,” he verbally expressed. “This was a come-up for her, no question. She had to learn the ropes as presented by Jay—but genuinely, this was mostly about business.”

Those intrigued with getting scarcely more perspective on the drama between Jay Z and Beyoncé can click here to heedfully aurally perceive the “Flawless” remix.

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Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to rule out Manchester United return

 

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has refused to rule out the possibility of a return to Manchester United.

Ronaldo, 29, spent five years at Old Trafford afore making his then-world-record transfer to Real in 2009.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or holder has since scored an incredible 177 La Liga goals in five seasons, and broke the record for the number of UEFA Champions League goals in a single campaign in leading the Spanish giants to prosperity in Europe's premier club competition last term.

Despite his phenomenal record at the Bernabeu, Ronaldo has conventionally been linked with a move back to United.

And - ahead of Real's International Champions Cup meeting with United in Michigan on Saturday, a game the Portugal captain will miss as he perpetuates to instaurate ahead of the incipient season - he was coy on whether he could one day ply his trade in the Premier League again.

"Well, of course, it was one of my favourite clubs, Manchester, everyone kens that every time when I verbalize about Real Madrid I should verbalize about Manchester United," Ronaldo told MUTV.

"I doted it there, I was 18 years old, I won everything there.

"The people treat me like a deity there, so I appreciate it and [in] the future, nobody kens.

"Of course I'm ecstatic at Real Madrid - it's my home, it's my club, but Manchester treat me unbelievable so we never ken."

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Brake problem cuts Jari-Matti Latvala's lead in Rally Finland

 

Jari-Matti Latvala holds a slender lead heading into the final day of the Rally Finland after a brake problem damaged his hopes of triumph.

The Finn dominated the first two days to lead by 19.7 seconds and won five of the first six stages on Saturday to elongate that advantage to over half a minute.

However, the home favourite hit an aperture in the road on stage 20, breaking his front right brake caliper on his Volkswagen Polo R.

That coerced Latvala to race the final three stages with just three brakes, sanctioning Volkswagen team-mate and forfending champion Sebastien Ogier to cut the gap to just 3.4secs.

Ogier leads Latvala by 50 points in the world championship standings but, after his adversity, the 29-year-old Latvala is relucting to cogitate the more sizably voluminous picture.

"I had to hold on," Latvala told the WRC's official wesbite. "I've wrought so strenuously and I didn't peregrinate here to lose this rally.

"We'll get the car fine-tuned in accommodation and tomorrow we're in the fight for victory. I don't care so much about the world championship right now, this is about Rally Finland."

Meanwhile, Ogier conceded that he was conflicted about capitalizing on his team-mate's haplessness.

Ogier verbalized: "It's not nice what transpired to Jari-Matti. I can't smile an exorbitant amount of about the situation.

"I have a chance to acquire victory, but it came about by chance because Jari-Matti was doing a great job at the front."

Brit Kris Meeke (Citroen) is in third, with Volkswagen's Andreas Mikkelsen and M-Sport's Mikko Hirvonen rounding off the top five.

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Walter Mazzarri lauds Nemanja Vidic after first Inter goal

 

Walter Mazzarri hailed defender Nemanja Vidic after he scored his first Inter goal in Saturday's 2-0 win over Roma in Philadelphia.

The former Manchester United captain glanced in a header from a free-kick tardy in the first half afore Yuto Nagatomo integrated a second after the break.

After Inter's second win in the International Champions Cup, Mazzarri verbalized his delectation at his side's exhibiting and, in particular, the performance of Vidic.

"I'm genuinely blissful with the lads, we're getting more preponderant by the game. Solid in defence, Vidic is top class," the coach told Inter Channel.

"We're engendering lots in the final third, we just need to be marginally sharper with our final ball.

"We must keep going like this."

The victory keeps Inter in with a chance of remaining in the competition but, if they bow out, an amicable with Eintracht Frankfurt awaits

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Chris Brown Dumped: Singer Caught Making Out With Karrueche Tran’s Friend

 

Chris Brown and ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran likely won’t be exchanging Christmas cards anytime anon after the singer was caught getting very proximate with one of her girlfriends, leading to him being dumped.

Brown and Tran broke up this week, with reports denoting that his perpetual with ex-girlfriend Rihanna was the cause. But incipient pictures denote that Chris Brown may have had another woman in mind.

Pictures from a recent visit to St. Tropez show Chris Brown lounging around with a dark-haired friend of Karrueche.

The story — and the pictures allegedly exhibiting Chris Brown moving in on Karrueche’s friend — hit the web on Friday via MediaTakeOut.

If the cheating story is true, it seems that Chris Brown just can’t debar himself from trouble with the people proximate to him. This week the 25-year-old singer reportedly vexed a neighbor in his ritzy San Fernando Valley neighborhood by throwing an astronomically immense party that led to some guests spilling over onto other people’s properties.

One unnamed neighbor later told TMZ that he didn’t genuinely care what Chris Brown or his friends did — as long as they stayed the heck of his lawn.

“It can be the devil. I can care less. I don’t care if they are having orgies,” the neighbor verbally expressed. “It can even be Saddam Hussein for all I care, as long as he doesn’t trespass onto my property. If he does, I shoot him.”

Chris has gotten into some trouble of his own. According to UPI, 20-year-old fan Adams Parker endeavored to jump into one of Brown’s photos, leading to a fight that left Brown’s bodyguard, Christopher Hollosy, under apprehension.

As for his recent breakup, the inditement was on the wall for Chris Brown. In an interview last month, Karrueche Tran repined about the tribulations of a high-profile boyfriend who relucted to cut ties with his equipollently famous ex.

“In this case, my boyfriend is a celebrity, whose ex-girlfriend is an even bigger… you ken what I’m saying,” she verbally expressed on Just Keke.

It turns out it was Rihanna she needed to be apprehensive about glomming Chris Brown away, but instead her own friend.

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Mariah Carey To Begin World Tour In Malaysia As Mystery Fan-Promoter Spares No Expense

 

Mariah Carey’s much awaited world tour will commence anon. Interestingly, it will commence from the Far Eastern country Malaysia.

A Malaysian concert promoter has won a fiercely fought bidding war to get American pop diva Mariah Carey to perform here first live concert, ahead of her world tour series in Singapore and the Philippines. Incidentally, the unknown Malaysian promoter hasn’t offered any clue about his identity, neither the organization that has won the bidding to have Mariah perform in Malaysia even afore the world tour officially kicks-off.

The only information about the mystery promoter is that he is incipient to the concert circuit and wants his debut to be sizably voluminous and has spared no expense to ascertain a ‘top-notch’ celebrity like Mariah kick-commences his concert promoting vocation. Officially, Mariah Carey was supposed to commence her world tour in Kuala Lumpur (KL) on Oct 22nd in Stadium Merdeka. The industry source that apprised The Star about the developments, verbally expressed,

    “KL will be her first stop – even though Singapore is unhappy with her management’s decision to have her exhibition in the island republic two days after KL.”

Little is kenned about Mariah Carey’s upcoming world tour. But it is being widely verbally expressed that Carey price’s is not less than US$1 million (RM 3.2 million). In fact, it could very well be above $1 million, since such a fees was paid to the star way back in 2004 when she had performed at the same venue, reported Astro Avani.

Mariah Carey is verbally expressed to have prudently decided to launch her world tour in Asia afore the United States. The decision might be due to the fact that she has a profoundly and astronomically immense fan-base in the Far East. Moreover, western artists and their engenderments are steadily moving their launch venues from United States to such countries since their loyal fans now not only match, but exceed in numbers as compared to America.

Though Mariah hasn’t promulgated what she will perform, it is expected that her latest album, ‘Me, I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’, that has garnered some reassuring replication, will be a component of the line-up. In fact, industry insiders corroborate that the world tour is genuinely an effort to enhance promotion of the album and ascertain the reprise of the artist is prosperous.

Mariah surprised everyone last time she was in the Far East, by dressing very modestly, which is very unlike her. Hers was an endeavor to appease Malaysian ascendant entities who have rigorous rules and regulations regarding costumes and concerts. Will she ascertain an equipollently conservative encore?

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WWE News: Vince McMahon Announces Layoffs

 

WWE substantiated today that it will make job cuts amounting to seven percent of its staff.

Initial reports suggested that the layoffs could reach 10 percent of the World Wrestling Entertainment workforce.

About 50 to 60 employees will reportedly lose their jobs (or already have) in the belt-tightening, as it were, which ostensibly is prompted by the underperformance of the incipient WWE subscription-predicated network and a decline in pay-per-view income.

It’s not just certain wrestlers that could lose their gig. The layoffs are withal liable to affect those abaft the scenes, i.e., engenderment workers, marketing, peregrinate, administration, IT, and other members of the office staff in additament to in-ring aptitude.

 

Evidently there was some understandable stress at the WWE headquarters in Stamford, Conn., today. If you’ve ever gone through a layoff, you can well appreciate how they must have felt. As a result, WWE CEO and impresario Vince McMahon reportedly sent an electronic mail to employees that “the staff reduction process is culminated. If an employee was not notified about anything during the day, he or she is still employed [by] WWE.”

The What Culture website marginally astringently claims that “As for those who lost their jobs, they were considered expendable workers in minor positions.” For someone regardless of his or her role in the organization who lamentably was among the seven percent receiving a pink slip, however, the layoff must seem homogeneous to 100 percent.

In a press release,WWE reported a second quarter net loss of $14.5 million and noted that after a comprehensive evaluation of operations, it identified cost-cutting measures in all of the company’s business units.

The company additionally verbally expressed that…

    “We identified efficiencies across WWE, which include a 7% reduction in staff, and amended our 2015 [operating income afore depreciation and amortization] perspective by $30 million. We developed plans to make WWE Network available in over 170 countries, and entered a 10-year deal that provides for the WWE Network launch as a traditional a-la-carte Pay-TV channel in Canada and renews our television licensing acquiescent for Raw and SmackDown. The progress in our strategic initiatives reinforces our view that prosperous execution of our WWE Network strategy can engender consequential economic returns.”

Summarized McMahon: “WWE’s core business metrics remain vigorous.”

The WWE Network currently has 700,00 subscribers, but reportedly needs 1.3 million to make the venture remuneratively lucrative. As The Inquisitr antecedently reported, the company is rolling out an incipient payment option for network content at $20 a month cancellable at any time rather than the $9.99 monthly subscription requiring a six-month commitment.

The WWE Summer Slam pay-per-view event is scheduled for August 17.

If you’re a pro wrestling fan, are you considering signing up for the WWE Network? Apart from the bottom-line challenges in the wrestling industry, given the condition of the economy generally, as you surprised that there are job cuts at WWE?.

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Beyoncé’s Father Creating More ‘Beyoncés’: Find Out How

 

 Beyoncé’s estranged father, Mathew Knowles, has set his sights on engendering a whole incipient series of future “Beyoncés.”

No, not in the first way that comes to mind — predicated on his propensity to father children with a variety of different woman — but by promoting his supposed “stage parenting ability.”

According to a report by In Touch, Beyoncé’s dad — formerly her manager — is edifying a class called “The Regalement Industry: How Do I Get In?” at Houston Community College Central.

The school’s website waxes exuberant about what it describes as a one-day intensive boot camp. It verbalizes that the day with Mathew Knowles “offers attendees a fascinating, insider’s view of the regalement industry from someone who kens it from top to bottom: Knowles has spent more than 20 years in every aspect of the music industry and has a demonstrated and spectacular history of prosperity.”

However, Mr. Knowles doesn’t come frugal. To avail yourself of his expertise, you’ll need to come up with $295 in advance — or $350 at the door. What precisely you can expect for the mazuma isn’t designated.

So, why is Beyoncé’s dad doing this? Maybe because he requires to mazuma to settle sundry patrimony claims. A lingerie model, rejoicing in the designation TaQoya Branscomb, alleged that Knowles had an affair with her in 2010 which resulted in her becoming pregnant.

Knowles, 63, was divorced from his wife of 21 years after he managed to impregnate another woman, Alexsandra Wright. The Inquisitr reported on this only three weeks ago; you can read the full story here.

Earlier this year, Alexsandra told In Touch that she and Beyoncé’s half-brother, Nixon, were coerced to live in a homeless shelter after a judge acceded to reduce Mathew’s child support payments from $12,000 a month to $2,400 a month.

The astronomically immense question is, of course, does the world authentically want — or need — a bevy of Beyoncé wannabes?

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Rudi Garcia pleased with Roma form

Roma coach Rudi Garcia said his side has been in good form, as they eye a berth in the International Champions Cup final.

 

 The Serie A outfit can top Group A of the pre-season tournament in the United States with a win over domestic rivals Inter, coalesced with a Manchester United loss to Real Madrid.

Garcia verbally expressed his side's utilization of space in their two outings in the tournament so far - a 3-2 loss to United, and a 1-0 win over Real - had delectated him.

"We played more preponderant against Manchester United than Real Madrid, but we were more efficient in attack and defence against the Spaniards," Garcia verbalized.

"We had less possession against Real Madrid, which was a component of the orchestration, but when we had the space to play in we utilized it well.

"It was a more experienced squad than against United. Now, with a victory against Inter, we can target the final in Miami."

Garcia verbally expressed he will be blissful to take on loanee Dodo - who peregrinate to Inter on an ad interim two-year deal from the capital club.

"It looks as if Inter will play with three advocators and a playmaker, so I like taking on different tactics," Garcia verbalized.

"It'll be a gratification to visually perceive Dodo again, as he's a great lad and I hope he can play more customarily at Inter."

Despite getting an ensured three games against quality opposition at the pre-season tournament, Garcia remained less than impressed by the Serie A's scheduling - with the league playing the aperture matchday afore a gap due to the international break.

He claimed the discontinuity affected sides competing in the UEFA Champions League.

"The only thing I have a quandary with is that Serie A commences later than all the other European leagues," the Frenchman verbalized.

"That can cause quandaries with Champions League fitness, as in Italy we have one round and then a break for international obligation, whereas French and Spanish clubs have two or three rounds under their belts afore the Champions League commences.

"Italy should reflect on this. In my view things have to transmute if we optate Italian teams to do more preponderant in Europe."

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