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loads of "fr” sn’f whum clark as he has loads of brilliant centre backs and midfielders, he has to squeeze them into the team. centre backs and midfielders, he has to squeeze them into the teamm centre backs and midfielders, he has to squeeze them into the team. it is difficult, it is all left backs and midfielders. we are probably crying out for a striker, it is a good thing to have. there is definitely a lot of places up for grabs and hopefully they can really shine. great to talk to you, thank you very much indeed. the rugby football league have announced... it is how they will pack started their own journey which has taken them to the super league. something else is the same, the man behind it all, eric perez, hejoins us behind it all, eric perez, hejoins us on sports day. last i spoke to you you are wearing a very similar cap with a toronto logo on. if you
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just crouch down, there we go, beautiful. the ottawa aces. you are following the same journey, are you? use the term businessman loosely as well. people think i am kind of a psychopath. for even conceptualising a canadian team are now a second canadian team, i think that is a better term for me. how similar will the path be and how similar has it been so far? well, i will tell you. it will be similar in the path that we will rise up from league i and hopefully get to super league and hopefully get to super league and hopefully do a little bit of winning on the way, pick up some silverware, some trophies. it has been a very different journey, some trophies. it has been a very differentjourney, whereas we had an expansion team, ottawa is a club i moved to from hamill hampstead. it has been a different process of relocation rather than expansion. it isa
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relocation rather than expansion. it is a different city and an unbelievable stadium, i think the pride. it has been a different journey, a betterjourney in a lot of ways because you learn from the first time around what to expect and not a lot can surprise me at this point. it is toronto's for the season, theirfirst in point. it is toronto's for the season, their first in super league. they have very quickly at least risen up the ranks. you have said you have learnt the process so far, is there anything that toronto did from the point that they entered the league until now that perhaps ottawa might be able to learn from as well? absolutely, i think managing the cap, building a little bit more gradually before we get to super league, toronto are six in super league, toronto are six in super league, it is a long season but not a great start. also a little bit more grass roots and a little bit more grass roots and a little bit more reaching out to the community is something that we will do and we are able to because we have great strategic partners in ottawa. we will spread your wings a little bit
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more, whereas toronto was the first time out, we had to prove the concept, not everyone believed, so it was difficult to make things happen. this is a different story, a different case, and i think we are the better for it. eric perez and new hat. the road to tokyo 2020 for britain's boxers begins this weekend with the olympic qualifying tournament at the copper box arena in london. one of the team's hopes for a medal is bantamweight peter mcgrail. a fighter very familiar with a podium and a commonwealth champion from 2018. he's hoping to make the first games of his career. it is amazing, i have in doing it since i was ten but been going down to sheffield for the past 4—5 years, working towards this year, the next few months, we have been gifted the qualifiers in london. few months, we have been gifted the qualifiers in londonlj qualifiers in london. i think four yea rs qualifiers in london. i think four years ago you sparred with some of the guys that were preparing for rio asa
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the guys that were preparing for rio as a 19—year—old, was that the moment that the touchpaper was [it for you? when he got the olympic bug? when i first got there i was gutted, i wanted to be a part of it but as it went on and we went to watch the boxing, i got a feel for the atmosphere. how significant is the atmosphere. how significant is the experience you are able to get at not only the world championships where you have won medals, the european championship, but winning that gold in the commonwealth. to go is one thing, but to win is another. it is great, there was a few in which people there. the support we had was great. my girlfriend came out to watch as well. it was boss. when he came home, a few got gold in their ignition we got was amazing, and the experience we have under our belts now, it is great experience for tokyo —— the recognition we got was amazing. how much have you been told about coronavirus? the conversations at the highest level is nothing is changing at the
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moment, but you must have to think about possible contingencies or even have a little bit inside you of nervousness about perhaps not being able to go out to tokyo. we have been told to take precautions, wash your hands a lot. instead of shaking hands, we have been told to do this. but as i said, we can't let it affect us too much. you might start thinking it is not going to happen subconsciously. the way we are looking at it as it is still going on, it is still happening, we are still training hard and making sure we are 100% still training hard and making sure we are 10096 ready. we have the professional fighters have one, we are 10096 ready. we have the professionalfighters have one, two, three professional fights on the calendar year. are you treating it like that? you pick for this one in the pic for the summer again? it is not just one fight for the pic for the summer again? it is notjust one fight for us, it is a tournament over ten days and could be four or five fights. once you win, it is not i can go chill out. i am fighting again tomorrow or in two
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days, i just have am fighting again tomorrow or in two days, ijust have to keep focused on the ten days that we can have downtime once i qualify, and then we stay back in camp e few weeks later. that is peter mcgrail who is heading, he hopes, to the tokyo olympics. england got their she believes cup campaign back on course. the 2011 world champions japan were on the cards for them in new jersey japan were on the cards for them in newjersey overnight, it was ellen white who ended up getting a vital goal. she was not starting but on the bench instead. beth england got her chance to play up front. the final match will be against spain on wednesday. i wouldn't like to be picking the team and it is incredible we have two top form strikers in the league at the moment, so i think ellen white does what she does best, she gets on the right places but they showed today
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we needed beth to be a part of the squad and that is what got us the win in the end. the thought of playing football as a professional was once a distant dream for ezzeldin bahader. but now — at 75 years old — he's not only played for a team called october 6th in egypt's third tier... he's now one game away from officially being the oldest footballer in the world. rhia chohan reports. ezzeld i n ezzeldin is a man who is close to making history. the 75—year—old egyptian is bidding to make the guinness world records book as the world's oldest professional football player. to make it official he needs to play two full games, he played the first over the weekend, much to the first over the weekend, much to the ore of some of the younger ones. translation: to see a player who is 75 years old is something i have not heard of before. a player who is 75 yea rs heard of before. a player who is 75 years old playing against a team like a genius too, it is something unbelievable. he has already made
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history even before playing. scoring for the penalty spot for his third division team october sixth, he made his dream debut, becoming the oldest professional to score in an official game. and he had his biggest fan there to celebrate it. translation: i am so happy, i am very, very happy and i hope he achieves his dream because nothing is impossible. i was more anxious than you, when the referee was arranging the players he said wait, don't shoot and i took it as a chance to compose myself. without this, i don't know what would have happened. when i was running up to ta ke happened. when i was running up to take the kick i slow down a bit to see where the keeper was going. tha nkfully see where the keeper was going. thankfully i scored. the grandmother of six fell in love with the game playing on the streets of cairo as a child. almost seven decades later, ezzeldin are showing it is never too late to chase your dreams. —— grandfather. just another 90 minutes of football sits between him and a
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world record. i am about half his age on my knees hurt more than they ever will. congratulations to what could be a record—breaking 75—year—old in egyptian football. just before we go, a reminder of our top stories. a difference between the sports being affected in the uk and overseas because of the coronavirus outbreak. in the uk after a meeting today with stakeholders, broadcasters, government bodies and officials, it seems to be continue as normal, but overseas, especially in the last hour or overseas, especially in the last hourorso, overseas, especially in the last hour or so, with italy cancelling all sporting events until april the 3rd. you can follow it all on our website. there are other events being affected abroad, the six nations match between france and ireland schedule for this weekend, there has also been postponed indian wells the major tennis tournament. the fifth major has been cancelled completely. that is all the time we have. thank you ever so much for joining us. that is it, thank you
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for joining us, goodbye. good evening, after a promising start the date deteriorated as the winds picked up and rain began to edge its way in. some of the screen is going to be heavy and persistent, especially across parts of mid wales. the met office has issued in amber warning over the hills, we could see as much as 100 millilitres, flooding and travel disruption likely. you can see quite nicely the extent of this rain on the earlier radar image, some heavy pulses as well for north england and down south—west england, spilling its way eastwards and will gradually clear the main band during the early hours of the morning but more rain to come for parts of mid wales up into north—west england and parts of south—west england as well over the
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moors, we could see as much as 50 millilitres of rain. quite a bit of cloud around overnight, away from north—east england and it remains winded. as a result, a fairly mild start to tuesday morning. we still have low pressure in charge, a south—westerly wind which will start to drag in a plume of something a little milder which will give the temperatures a boost through the day on tuesday. we start off with some heavy pulses of rain still for parts of wales and north—west england, it does ease and becomes more showery as the day goes on. further showers as the day goes on. further showers as well for scotland, we keep a bit of cloud down toward southern england and wales, drizzly outbreaks at times, after a bit of a murky start, it has to be said. it is going to be a windy day across the board. where we get to see some cloud breaks, with that mild feet of air, we could see temperatures reaching 16—17dc for parts of east anglia. as we head into tuesday evening, here is this trailing weather front that keeps on coming. the winds is where many areas, away
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from parts of northern scotland, closer to this area of low pressure. in other system starts to edge in. through the day on wednesday, noticeably cooler for scotland, we have got showers packing in which will be wintry of a higher ground initially but even to lower levels later on in the day. it is still fairly mild for the southern half of the uk so as a result there is going to be quite a contrast in temperatures, 15 celsius towards the far south—east, compared to just six celsius for the far north of scotland. i think we will all notice a dip in those temperatures, a case of sunshine and showers but something quieter on the cards for many on friday.
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