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15-05-2025
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Mbappé's (latest) unhappy hat-trick is a rarity in England
Kylian Mbappé bagged a hat-trick for Real Madrid away to Barcelona but it still wasn't enough to help his side win an important El Clásico. But the Frenchman is not the only one to complete a milestone and still lose out, it is in fact surprisingly common in Spain while a rarity in England. Advertisement Mbappé had given his side a two-goal lead early in the game and by the team the forward hit his third early in the second half, his side was already training before eventually going on to lose 4-3. Scoring a hat-trick while being on the losing side is a relative rarity in the Premier League, and has happened just once since 1996, but in La Liga Mbappé has plenty of company. In fact, the same thing happened just last month, also against Barcelona when Borja Iglesias netted three for Celta Vigo back in April. Last season, in January 2024, Álvaro Morata did the same for Atlético de Madrid in a losing effort to Girona. The former Chelsea man broke a duck that came from when Philippe Coutinho did the same for Barcelona against Levante in a crazy game at the end of the 2017/18 season. Advertisement To compare to the two leagues, the Premier League has only ever had five hat-tricks that have still ended in defeat (with four of those in between May 1993 and September 1996). Meanwhile, La Liga has had 13 in total in that time and even had a player score four (!) while still losing a game – something that probably still annoys Christian Vieri to this day when his Atleti team somehow lost to Salamanca in March 1998. Trivia lovers will surely know that Roque Santa Cruz was the most recent player to do it in the Premier League, for Blackburn Rovers against Wigan Athletic in December 2007. Dion Dublin (for Coventry City in December 1995) and Dwight Yorke (for Aston Villa in September 1996) also did the same with Matt Le Tissier doing it twice in the space of just a few months. Advertisement The former Southampton man turned tin foil hot wearer did it against Oldham Athletic at the end of the inaugural 1992/1993 season before picking up where he left off last season against Nottingham Forest at the start of the next campaign. Le Tissier's feat is unique and something Mbappé – who arguably scored the most famous fruitless triple – can sympathise with. Although technically, and the Frenchman will feel no consolation from this, that game did end in a draw so the Real Madrid star hasn't emulated Le Tissier just yet.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
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'Behind enemy lines' - Saints legend Le Tissier dons Pompey shirt for charity match
SAINTS legend Matt Le Tissier pulled on a Portsmouth shirt as he played the pantomime villain in a charity football match at Fratton Park. Le Tissier featured for Alan Knight's Charity XI against a team of Pompey legends, helping to raise money for the vital work done by cancer charities. Knight, 63, who played 195 times for Portsmouth, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2024, receiving the football world's full support. Le Tissier was a surprise unannounced attendee on the day, cheekily revealing his arrival on social media with the caption: "Behind enemy lines." Entered enemy territory — Matt Le Tissier ✝️ (@mattletiss7) May 5, 2025 Alan Knight's XI drew 8-8 with the Portsmouth Legends team, as Le Tissier came off the bench to entertain a crowd over 6,000 strong in PO. Le Tissier was greeted with inevitable chants from the fans of his former bitter rivals, but earned their appreciation with a good natured smile. The Saints hero played 518 games in red and white but put the past aside to help raise money for charity, donning a Portsmouth away shirt. Today's teams. 🔵⚪️ — Portsmouth FC (@Pompey) May 5, 2025 It is not a sight many Saints fans will want to see again but is a touch of class from the 56 year old, who scored an incredible 195 goals for the Dell outfit. Le Tissier will be back on the red side when Saints meet Pompey in South Coast derby league matches, for the first time since 2012, next season. With both clubs set for participation in the Championship, Saints will take on Portsmouth home and away in their quest for promotion to the top flight.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
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Could Man Utd break the record for fewest WSL goals conceded?
Could Man Utd break the record for fewest WSL goals conceded? Manchester United could potentially break the record for the fewest goals conceded if they keep up their mean defensive streak until the end of the WSL. The Red Devils could only manage a goalless draw away to West Ham United at the weekend – a result that would have been more damaging had chasing Man City not also drawn with Everton – but they did extended their stellar record at the back. Advertisement That game was United's 13th clean sheet in 19 league games this season making it a total of 68% clean sheets for Marc Skinner's side. In total, United have conceded nine goals and should they not concede in their final three then it would become a new record for a 22-game WSL season. Arsenal's 2021/22 campaign and Chelsea's in 2020/21 are currently the joint top in fewest goals conceded in a full season with just 10 each. The current league leaders Chelsea (13) and second-place Arsenal (14) don't rank too far behind. Of course, it will be an impressive task for United to pull off considering that in their final three fixtures, they face the top two of Arsenal and Chelsea as well as a Man City team desperate to catch up and try and snatch third spot. A solid backline Skinner's side have fielded a consistent backline that has featured Phallon Tullis-Joyce in goal behind a central defensive pairing of Millie Turner and captain Maya Le Tissier. Jayde Riviere and Gabrielle George usually make up the two full-back spots in the back four. Advertisement Tullis-Joyce, whose performances this season have earned her a first USA cap, deserves special mention. Brought in as a backup to Mary Earps last season, the 28-year-old has filled Earps' absence seamlessly. The goalkeeper has made 50 saves in the WSL this season (the fifth highest in the league) but has an incredible save percentage of 88% – way above the nearest other shot-stopper, Arsenal's Daphne van Domselaar (81%). The pair of Turner and Le Tissier meanwhile are a strong, effective, and very consistent partnership – the pair have featured in the same game 88 times for the club in total. As a way of working out that consistency at the back, Le Tissier has only played 91 United games in total! Turner usually operates as the more defensive side of the duo having won the second most aerial duels in the league (43) behind Sophie Román Haug (80), effectively making her the Vidic to Le Tissier's Ferdinand. Advertisement Indeed, Le Tissier is essential to United's overall play which is why she ranks third in the league for passes into the final third (117) while she's made more touches than any other player in her team (1449, more than Hinata Miyazawa and Grace Clinton combined). At right back, Jayde Riviere continues her improvement since taking over from Ona Batlle last season. The Canadian has put in 52 crosses, the third of any United player, while also making 24 interceptions – the second for any United player behind Celine Bizet with 26. On the other side of the pitch, Gabrielle George's return to fitness after missing the majority of the 2024/25 campaign has been a huge boost. Like Riviere, she's been pinging in the crosses – in fact, she has more crosses in total than any of her teammates (59), which also ranks her in the top 10 in the WSL. It's a back four unit that has shown that consistency is key while any deputies – Aoife Mannion, Anna Sandberg, and occasionally Leah Galton – have managed to fill the void admirably. Breaking the record will still require an immense effort in the last three games but at the very least United's improvement this season can be traced to a solid and stable defence.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
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Lt Col Anthony Le Tissier, last British governor of Spandau prison in Berlin
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Le Tissier, who has died aged 92, had an adventurous career with the Royal Military Police (RMP) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was the last British governor of Spandau prison. In 1981, Le Tissier was working for the FCO in Berlin and took over a triple role as British Resident, British governor of Spandau prison and British allied liaison and protocol officer. The prison was in the British sector of Berlin but it was operated by the Four-Power Authorities to house the Nazi war criminals sentenced to imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials. The governors took it in turns to act as chairman for a month but decisions had to be agreed by all four. Rudolf Hess had been the only prisoner there for 14 years. Le Tissier was able to improve his conditions by providing a hospital bed and replacing the narrow spiral staircase with a lift so that the man had easier access to the garden and his Portacabin summer house. In August 1987 Hess committed suicide in the Portacabin by strangling himself with the loose end of an electric light wire while his warder was outside. Attempts to revive him failed. This occurred in a month when an American governor was chairman, but Le Tissier took the lead in making arrangements for the body to be handed over to Hess's son. The prison was demolished to prevent it becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. Hess's death sparked a number of accusations and conspiracy theories. In an attempt to put these to rest, in 1994, with the discreet approval of the Foreign Office, Le Tissier published a book, Farewell to Spandau. Anthony Hedley Le Tissier was born in Guernsey on February 6 1932. Always known as Tony, as a boy he visited the great battleships Hood and Nelson when they were moored off the island and, in 1937, he saw the airship Hindenburg moving westwards on its ill-fated flight to New Jersey. In June 1940, after the fall of France, he and his younger brother Owen, together with more than 1,800 other children, were evacuated to Weymouth, Dorset, by steamer. After being joined by their mother, who was pregnant, and her two daughters, they were billeted on a family at St Helens, Lancashire. His father had a substantial business growing tomatoes. It was the height of the season and he was determined to harvest his crop before leaving. He stayed too long, however, and was interned when the Germans occupied the island at the end of the month. At one stage during the war, he was arrested by the German military police, and spent three months in Jersey prison followed by six months in Caen prison for illegal slaughter of cattle and distribution of meat. He returned on crutches, weak from malnutrition, and never fully recovered his health. Le Tissier was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. As a member of the Junior Training Corps, he wore a battledress, learnt to drill with rifles and read maps. He left school aged 17 and worked for several years as an accountant for British American Tobacco. In March 1954 he enlisted as a regular soldier in the Intelligence Corps at Maresfield Camp, Sussex. After promotion to sergeant, he was posted to Segamat near Johor in Malaya, during the Emergency. The Corps was part of the British force deployed to defeat the communist terrorists (CTs) and support the government. Le Tissier assisted the military intelligence officer in interpreting intelligence so that it could be exploited by army patrols and ambushes. On one occasion, he was walking up a track to a village accompanied by a detective chief inspector (DCI) from Special Branch. There was a clump of bushes on the skyline and suddenly he felt the hairs rise up on the back of his neck. 'There was no cover,' he said afterwards. 'I was in a very exposed position. I was sure that I was being aimed at.' Fortunately nothing happened, but several years later the DCI wrote to him to say that he had met a CT who told him he had had a Bren gun aimed at the two men from the bushes but he had seen a tiger behind them and decided not to fire. Le Tissier returned to England in 1956. He attended OCTU at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the next year and, after the four-month course, he was granted a short-service commission in the RMP. After postings to Cyprus and Lisburn, Northern Ireland, followed by a move to the Special Investigation Branch (SIB) at New Scotland Yard, in early 1964 he returned to Cyprus to take over the SIB. There was increasing lawlessness and violence between the Cypriot and Turkish communities and the UN Peacekeeping Force was set up by the Security Council. Postings to Dortmund, Helmstedt and Herford, West Germany, were interspersed with a year in Edinburgh. At Dortmund, he was involved in investigating and prosecuting crimes including murder, rape and 'hit and run' motoring offences. He returned to Lisburn in September 1971 as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal 1st Regiment RMP. After Bloody Sunday on January 30 1972, he was tasked with checking hundreds of reports from soldiers who had been deployed in Derry that day. He was awarded an MBE in 1974. His reorganisation of the legal affairs department in Northern Ireland earned him accolades from several generals as well as the Chief Crown Prosecutor. In October 2002 he was summoned to the tribunal set up by the Saville Inquiry to report his findings and give evidence. He was posted to Berlin in 1976 as Assistant Provost Marshal in the rank of lieutenant colonel, but after a year he resigned from the Army and joined the FCO as a chief superintendent at the Public Safety Office. He finally retired in 1991, but for the next seven years he remained in Berlin. He began organising and running battlefield tours for soldiers still serving and for British, American and German veterans of the Second World War, organising visits to the Seelow Heights and former top secret Soviet installations servicing Warsaw Pact forward command bunkers. One of the houses he explored had been specially adapted by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, for debriefing defectors from the West. It had 40 cameras and 60 microphones concealed in the building. The tours later included excursions to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy and Poland. Over the years, he published 19 books and became an internationally recognised military historian. He also acted as a consultant in the making of several films. After returning to England, he lived in Frome and Lymington before settling in Salisbury. In 1958 he married Jeanne (Jo) Moffat. She died in 2019 and he is survived by two sons and a daughter. 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27-01-2025
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Saints legend backs farmer protest as tractors lined up at St Mary's
Saints legend Matt Le Tissier backed a farmers' protest at St Mary's Stadium on Saturday ahead of the Premier League game against Newcastle. Around 14 tractors were lined up outside the stadium before the 3pm kick-off, as they rallied against Labour's inheritance tax changes. Le Tissier was spotted backing the Farmers for Action protest in a video posted on their Instagram account. In the video, the Saints legend said: 'I'm pretty disgusted in the way the government are treating farmers, there seems to be a real attack on them without realising that these people are what makes our food go round. No farmers no food, it's not a catch phrase. 'We don't want to be reliant on the plastic food that people are trying to flog us in supermarkets and I think it's about time farmers actually got paid a fair price for what they produce.' READ MORE: One sign on a tractor said: "RIP farmers, abolish the death tax." The farmers congregated along Bitterne Manor at about 11am, then peacefully protested outside St Mary's before dispersing shortly after arriving at 12.30pm. A reader said: "Lots of residents came out in support along the road. Looks like they met up with more tractors in the industrial estate before heading to St Mary's Stadium up the road." READ MORE: Daily Echo Camera Club member 'Definitelyblurredphotography' pictured the ten-plus tractors parked in the industrial estate next to the stadium. Farmers rallied outside St Mary's Stadium. (Image: Alfie House) In a video on X, protest organisers Farmers for Action said: "These are our British farmers. "Farmers for Action – football fans outside Southampton Football Club, everyone standing together. "Let's have a fair price for farmers and a fair price for all. Scrap the IHT. It's time the government listened." Police were present throughout the demonstration. Farmers gathered at protests across the UK as their campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms steps up. The National Farmers Union (NFU) staged a series of events as part of a so-called National Day of Unity, with farmers bringing food, tractors and livestock to town centres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
