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manchester city in the first leg two weeks ago. so what's their manager going to say to his players tonight? if we had lost three or 4—0 the game was still over, so we will enjoy it the same. you know, it doesn't, it doesn't alter the achievement of getting to the semifinal. honestly. if we had lost 3—0 we are still out and we still reached the semifinal. so we will enjoy it and hope the supporters are. i don't think manchester city will ever come here again andi manchester city will ever come here again and i don't think we will ever get to a the scottish premiership is back tonight after their winter break, with a full programme leaders celtic take on st mirren, while bottom side dundee are at hearts. but the game of the night is at rugby park, where third—placed kilmarnock take on rangers in second. there for us to set the scene is five live‘s conor mcnamara. it has been tight at the top of the
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scottish premiership, unusually tight. just three points separating the top four, and as they come out of their winter break, kilmarnock internationalest especially hoping to pick up where they left off in the calendar year, 2018, no team in the calendar year, 2018, no team in the top flight pecked up as many points as kilmarnock. rangers have strengthened over the winter break. they have signed jermain defoe. just in recent times he was struggling to find the net at bournemouth. he didn't score for the club, he was on the federal reservery, he only managed to score four goals in a portsmouth shirt but rangers are hoping they have done a shrewd bit of business. steve clark put it in context when he said that the reported £35,000 a week that rangers are contributing towards defoe‘s wages, well that represents the entire wage budget per week of the
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squad which shows up the difference between the team. so a win tonight for kilmarnock would see them leap african national congress over rangers, this feels like a must win game for both teams. it feels like rangers and kilmarnock can't afford and you can ger across all the football action tonight on five live from seven o'clock. david beckham is set tojoin phil and gary neville, nicky butt, ryan giggs and paul scholes as co—owners of non—league side salford city. the "class of 92" bought the club in 2014 and have overseen three promotions in four seasons. subject to approval from the fa beckham will take a 10% stake. singapore businessman peter lim is the largest shareholder with 40% of the club. beckham already owns american club inter miami. five years of trying to get the team in miami going, and now it's finally on its way, now i'm able to get involved. seeing the story, seeing
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what they've done with the club, the stadium, obviously having peter is a huge part of this, it is a special group of people. to be part of this incredible team is going to be exciting. injust nine days‘ time, this year's six nations campaign gets underway. all 12 captains met in london to officially kick off two months of thrilling rugby. the six nations is always of course one of the highlights of the sporting calendar but especially this year, with the world cup in japan looming into view. so many storyli nes japan looming into view. so many storylines going into this year's tournament. ireland looking to retain the championship and perhaps record a second consecutive grand slam. england under eddiejones looking to continue their resurgence in form they showed during the
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autumn internationals and wales and scotla nd autumn internationals and wales and scotland looking to build on good results too. too. the captains and coaches descended here for the annual launch event an we caught up with them. we will have to make sure we do everything right to get the start we need, to get the momentum. if you lose that first one if we off but the championship, you give england a head start won't fall over to anyone so so it is their competitive. easily, so it is their competitive. we don't need any extra motivation, we are playing ireland in the first game of the six nations, we want to win them, we have to beat ireland, so win them, we have to beat ireland, soa simple win them, we have to beat ireland, so a simple equation. do you feel you are in a better place than last career? 10096. you are in a better place than last career? 100%. fitness you are in a better place than last career? 10096. fitness levels are better, we are thankful for the clu bs, better, we are thankful for the clubs, we are in better condition than last year. we have two clubs
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that provide the majority of our team. 7 o 0% of the team come from edinburgh and glasgow. there is a lot of upping there, we have to tap eninto and build on, when that and knowledge is leading to thatis that is better for us. that wins and that is better for us. that is our focus, carry on with the same appetite, with the group that is hungry to achieve. appetite, with the group that is hungry to achieve, a; a week on friday, when in paris a week on friday, when france host wales, and then scotland, italy murrayfield the following day, before the fixture of the opening round, with ireland, grand slam champions, taking on england. a mouthwatering proposition. it should be a great championships. dan roan there, and the women's six nations was launched alongside them with france defending their title. england start this campaign against ireland.
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any team in the tournament can beat one another, so we would be really naive to say france is the game we are looking to and i know it is very much a cliche but we have to look at ireland first and foremost, we have to get our preparation right for that, that is where our focus is in the build up over the next sort of ten days. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. good evening, a few different types of whippet weather today for some further wintery showers, for others
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look at this. blue skies in derbyshire and for some spots fog lingered all day long. what has been picked up here on the satellite picture in the spine of the uk is lying snow, we have had cloud across the south—east corner, g has i lying snow, we have had cloud across the south—east corner, g has been the south—east corner, that has been bringing wintry shower, extensive cloud in western fringe, we will keep that extra cloud in the west tonight, some further wintry showers in parts of north—west scotland and this line of wintry flurry, rain, sleet and snow, drifting southwards across northern england. could give across northern england. could give a further covering in place, with that extra cloud not as cold but for most a very cold and frosty night and from east that, up into scotland, there is the potentialfor some ice. during tomorrow morning's rush hour this line of rain, sleet and snow drifting across the midlands into the south—east could cause one 01’ midlands into the south—east could cause one or two travel issues and make things slippery. it will leave a cloudy day in the south—east. for
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the rest of england we will see sunshine, further west more in the way of cloud. 0utbreaks sunshine, further west more in the way of cloud. outbreaks of patchy rain and it will be mostly rain because in the western areas the temperatures will be climbing. further east it is another chilly day. thursday into friday we bring this warm front, further eastwards across the british isles, that will bring patchy rain but as the name warm front suggests it lot introduce warmer 01’ warm front suggests it lot introduce warmer or milder air, the cold air you will notice is not too far away. but friday, will be a very different feeling day. double digit temperatures in some place, a lot of cloud round, some patchy rain, a bit of brightness as well, but ten degrees in newcastle, 11 for cardiff and for plymouth. but we will see rain pepping in in western scotland late in the day. during friday night into saturday we bring this band of heavy rain southwards with strong and gusty winds and on the back edge we start to see some snow, over higher ground. that is because as they rain pushing southwards we open
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they rain pushing southwards we open the door once again to the return of some cold air. 0nce the door once again to the return of some cold air. once that cold air returns it stays with us on sunday. a windy day and stays chilly into next week. you're watching beyond one hundred days... donald trump has a catchy new slogan for why america needs a border wall — but it won't help reopen the government. and a new poll suggests more people support the democrats in this standoff than support the president. the senate is voting on two bills to reopen government — one has border wall funding, one doesn't. don't worry about the details of either because they won't pass. mr trump sends a letter to nancy pelosi saying he will give his state of the union from congress next tuesday. she wants him to delay it. also on the programme... the private jets are landing in davos for the biggest networking event of the year. but this time there are some notable absentees. a reflection perhaps of the strains in western democracies. and these are live pictures from the alaskan town of thiagvik — which is looking forward
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