BLACKBURN // Sam Allardyce's side virtually guaranteed themselves Premier League football next season after beating Portsmouth. Blackburn midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen made the breakthrough with his first goal of the season. He found the target in the 30th minute after a moment of indecision by Portsmouth goalkeeper David James. James was beaten to the ball by Chris Samba and it broke to Pedersen, who forced it home. Benni McCarthy made it two from the spot on 58 minutes after the South African's attempted cross was handled by Portsmouth's Hermann Hreidarsson. A late penalty for Portsmouth was blasted woefully over the bar by John Utaka.
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Europe’s rearming plan
- Suspend strict budget rules to allow member countries to step up defence spending
- Create new "instrument" providing €150 billion of loans to member countries for defence investment
- Use the existing EU budget to direct more funds towards defence-related investment
- Engage the bloc's European Investment Bank to drop limits on lending to defence firms
- Create a savings and investments union to help companies access capital
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Start the week as you mean to go on. So get your training on strong on a Monday.
Train hard, but don’t take it all so seriously that it gets to the point where you’re not having fun and enjoying your friends and your family and going out for nice meals and doing that stuff.
Think about what you’re training or eating a certain way for — don’t, for example, get a six-pack to impress somebody else or lose weight to conform to society’s norms. It’s all nonsense.
Get your priorities right.
And last but not least, you should always, always chill on Sundays.
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