Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
13 years old boy could get 21 years in US jail
He is the youngest person to be accused of robbing a bank that many in this midwestern US town can remember, and now he could end up spending a good chunk of his life behind bars.
A judge in the juvenile court, noting the premeditation and the “extremely aggressive” manner in which Denote Moore, 13, pointed an unloaded handgun at several bank tellers last month, ordered his case be moved to adult court.
The mid-day heist on April 13 shocked many in this Rust Belt city.
Sheriff Michael McCoy said Moore was the youngest person to be arrested for bank robbery in his 37 years on the force. A prosecutor said he could not remember another such case in his 19 years of work.
The move means a potential prison sentence for Moore of 21 to 45 years.
Had the case remained in the juvenile courts, Moore’s imprisonment would have ended on his 21st birthday.
The robbery occurred at about 11:35 am.
Moore was arrested within 30 minutes after hiding in a garage only a few blocks away from the bank. His clothing was stained red from a dye pack that had exploded in the pillow case where tellers had put the money.
Moore told police he thought he had been shot, hearing the pop and seeing a big puff of red smoke.
The teen told police he had run away from home a month earlier and was stealing to get money for “clothing and stuff.”
Illinois law allows a juvenile to be tried as an adult if he or she is older than 13 and a judge finds “it is not in the best interest of the public” for the minor to remain in the juvenile justice system. Moore will turn 14 next month.
The judge, noting Moore was on probation and failed to comply with counseling and missed several appointments with his probation officer, found the boy to be a poor candidate to work with officials further.
An estimated 200,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults every year in the United States, according to the Campaign for Youth Justice.
An average of 7,500 juveniles are incarcerated in adult jails at any given time and 40 states allow youths charged as adults to be held in adult jails while they wait for their case to be heard.
A judge in the juvenile court, noting the premeditation and the “extremely aggressive” manner in which Denote Moore, 13, pointed an unloaded handgun at several bank tellers last month, ordered his case be moved to adult court.
The mid-day heist on April 13 shocked many in this Rust Belt city.
Sheriff Michael McCoy said Moore was the youngest person to be arrested for bank robbery in his 37 years on the force. A prosecutor said he could not remember another such case in his 19 years of work.
The move means a potential prison sentence for Moore of 21 to 45 years.
Had the case remained in the juvenile courts, Moore’s imprisonment would have ended on his 21st birthday.
The robbery occurred at about 11:35 am.
Moore was arrested within 30 minutes after hiding in a garage only a few blocks away from the bank. His clothing was stained red from a dye pack that had exploded in the pillow case where tellers had put the money.
Moore told police he thought he had been shot, hearing the pop and seeing a big puff of red smoke.
The teen told police he had run away from home a month earlier and was stealing to get money for “clothing and stuff.”
Illinois law allows a juvenile to be tried as an adult if he or she is older than 13 and a judge finds “it is not in the best interest of the public” for the minor to remain in the juvenile justice system. Moore will turn 14 next month.
The judge, noting Moore was on probation and failed to comply with counseling and missed several appointments with his probation officer, found the boy to be a poor candidate to work with officials further.
An estimated 200,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults every year in the United States, according to the Campaign for Youth Justice.
An average of 7,500 juveniles are incarcerated in adult jails at any given time and 40 states allow youths charged as adults to be held in adult jails while they wait for their case to be heard.
heineken cup final as it happened!!
The three big questions ahead of today's European Rugby Cup final:
1. Can Leicester win their third Heineken Cup?
2. Can Leinster land their first, shaking off their image as serial chokers?
3. How on earth are the folk at Sky Sports going to abbreviate the two team names in their scorebox at the corner of the screen? Eh?
Kick off is at: 5pm. Is it called kick off in rugby? I don't know. (This may alert you to the fact that I will be winging it this afternoon.)
Leicester: G Murphy (captain); S Hamilton, A Erinle, D Hipkiss, A Tuilagi; S Vesty, J Dupuy; M Ayerza, G Chuter, M Castrogiovanni, T Croft, B Kay, C Newby, B Woods, J Crane.
Replacements: B Kayser, J White, L Deacon, L Moody, H Ellis, M Smith, J Murphy.
Leinster: I Nacewa; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, C Whitaker; C Healy, B Jackman, S Wright, L Cullen (captain), M O'Kelly, R Elsom, S Jennings, J Heaslip.
Replacements: J Fogarty, R McCormack, D Toner, S O'Brien, S Keogh, R Kearney, G Dempsey.
Murrayfield's mood. There's quite an atmosphere cooking. Meanwhile the PA blares out Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev, in an attempt to reclaim it from The Apprentice. If it segues into Dru Masters' incidental score I'm going to be very unhappy.
Murray's mood. Actually, sod it, whoever's in charge of the PA can blast out whatever pap they like, even Simply Red if they really must. Because Black Dog's here anyway. First off, Inverness Caledonian Thistle have just been relegated from the Scottish Premier League. BALLS TO EVERYTHING, BALLS TO IT ALL. Then, as if to symbolise this sorry state of affairs in some cheap and tenuous way, two crows started attacking a seagull out the back of Big Paper Towers. I'm not sure whether they managed to kill it, or eat it, or violate it, because mid-stramash an office alpha male closed the blinds. This rugby better be entertaining.
The music. It's finally turned for the worse, as I always knew it would: Murrayfield is now being entertained by a version of Live and Let Die as played by an easy-listening orchestra. The BBC Radio Big Band, maybe. Hold on, it's part of a medley; suddenly it's turned into Moon River. All we need is Val Doonican and the Mike Sammes Singers, and we've got ourselves a proper old-fashioned Saturday evening variety show. I wonder if we'll stop for a quiz segment at any point?
Leinster hoof it long, and we're off! Sky have gone for what is, in retrospect, a predictable LEIC v LEIN solution to the top-corner-of-the-screen problem. But it doesn't work, unless you stare at it. And concentrate. A lot.
2 min: A bit of early pressure from Leinster. They'd get the put-in at a scrum ten yards from the line, but Shane Jennings concedes a needless penalty with a pointless trip and Geordan Murphy is able to clear.
4 min: Julien Dupuy has the first whack for goal, Leicester winning a penalty just inside the opposition half, near the left touchline. It's a brave effort, but fades left at the last.
6 min: DROP GOAL! Leicester 0-3 Leinster. This is scrappy for a while, both teams trading Garryowens, until suddenly Rocky Elsom trundles powerfully down the left to make up plenty of ground. Leinster are held up for a while, but the ball's worked infield to O'Driscoll, who has time to camly lift a drop-goal effort between the posts. First blood to the Irish.
8 min: PENALTY! Leicester 3-3 Leinster. Luke Fitzgerald fumbles an easy catch after Murphy punts forwards. From the loose ball Jamie Heaslip holds his man down way too long, and concedes a penalty just on the 22, and just to the left. What a comedy of errors. Dupuy makes no mistake this time.
12 min: Shane Horgan hares down the right after Gordon D'Arcy's chip. Geordan Murphy comes over to bundle the ball into touch, just as it looked like the Leinster man was going to burst clear for the line.
14 min: Leinster are enjoying the lion's share of possession, but can't find a way through a resolute Leicester defence. Again and again they get fed up and end up kicking long for the corners; again and again Leicester punt it back upfied. This is rugby!
16 min: A hell of a burst from Fitzgerald down the left sets Leicester on the back foot. Sexton sends a brilliant kick whistling across the park and near the right-hand corner. Dupuy attempts to hack clear, but it's charged down by O'Kelly's face. Eventually the danger is mopped up by Murphy, but Leinster have their tails up here.
18 min: DROP GOAL! Leicester 3-6 Leinster. My word! From 40-odd yards, cutting inside from the left, Jonathan Sexton welts a stupidly enormous effort between the posts. Murphy watches it sail over in horror.
20 min: Sexton is everywhere. First he sends another crossfield kick into touch near the right-hand corner, pinning Leicester back. Then he busts straight through the centre, and so nearly goes over under the posts, but is held up at the very last. The Leinster support is in good voice, and no wonder.
21 min: O'Driscoll tries to release Hipkiss into space with a raking pass out right, but Tuilagi gets a hand to the ball. He so nearly catches, and would be clear with half of the pitch to go, but can't quite hold on and knocks on. That was a close shave: Leinster are playing some lovely stuff here, but won't want to get too cocky.
23 min: PENALTY! Leicester 3-9 Leinster. Leicester concede a penalty after O'Driscoll drives, head down, straight through the middle twice. First time he's held up, second time he offloads to Whittaker, who's held down. Sexton's kick, just inside the 22 to the left, sails through the posts. This is a really strong start by the Irish side, who have done everything but score a try. Leicester have yet to turn up.
27 min: Leicester hold onto the ball for a while, but they can't get anything going. Newby and Hamilton combine well to set the latter sashaying into the opposition half, but the move eventually breaks down as he's tackled and knocks on. "Who was the office alpha male who closed the blinds?" asks Mac Millings "You work for The Guardian - do you even have alpha males there?" Actually, that's a good point. No. No we don't. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza: we're not men.
30 min: What superb stuff from Hipkiss. He takes a terrible pass between his own posts, one which almost hits him in the face, and breaks down the left at pace, slaloming through four tackles then, upon sprinting up to the halfway line, pinging a long ball down the left. Leinster hack clear, but that's much better from the English side. No points yet from this move, but it has at least earned them some time in the opposition half. And they've not enjoyed much of that so far.
33 min: PENALTY! Leicester 6-9 Leinster Stan Wright is sinbinned for a ridiculous tackle on Sam Vesty, the big Leicester man in acres down the left, waiting for a pass he'll never take as he's flattened off the ball. Dupuy strokes the penalty over, giving Leicester some reward for their time in the Leinster half.
35 min: As a result of Wright being flung in the sinbin, Jennings is replaced by McCormack.
37 min: Suddenly this is all Leicester, the Irish side unable to keep the ball for any useful length of time. Croft tries to break down the left but is bundled out of play.
39 min: TRY! Leicester 11-9 Leinster. The Tigers end the half on the front foot. The front paws? Hipkiss breaks down the centre. The ball's shifted right to Vesty, who offloads to Woods, 15 yards out. Woods is travelling at pace, and despite some attention from Nacewa, reaches the line, just to the right of the posts, and slams the ball down confidently.
40 min: CONVERSION! Leicester 13-9 Leinster. Dupuy makes no mistake, and neither should he, it's right in front of the posts.
HALF TIME: Leicester 13-9 Leinster. And that's that for the half. Leicester were second best for most of it, but now look.
Those effing crows: "Please don't keep us in suspense, replies Mac Millings. "Defy the office alpha male, open the blinds, and check on the well-being/shredded corpse of the seagull." There's nothing there, Mac, this is the problem. The blinds were re-opened quite soon after, and all evidence of gull-based hanky panky was gone. So either the seagull escaped, which is unlikely on early evidence of the brouhaha, or the crows ate every last bit of it, before flying off cackling and belching. They could have dragged the seagull off somewhere else for a proper kicking, I suppose. Or perhaps the alpha male scaled the walls outside the building and cleaned away the feathered cadaver, in order to save Guardianesque feelings inside. We simply have no way of knowing.
And we're off again! Vesty dinks the ball forward to start the second half. There are two more minutes of the sinbin to go. Deacon has replaced Crane.
42 min: PENALTY! Leicester 16-9 Leinster. Healy boots the ball away while coming from an offside position. The cock-up is right in front of the posts, allowing Dupuy to clip the resulting penalty between them.
44 min: Wright is back from the bin. So Jennings comes back on too, McCormack going off.
46 min: Plenty of possession for Leinster again, now they're back up to 15 men. Murphy keeps kicking clear, but only down opposition throats, and the ball keeps coming back at the Tigers. O'Driscoll clips a ball down the right flank, pinning Leicester near their own corner flag.
47 min: Murphy, whose kicking has suddenly gone to pot, is replaced by Smith.
49 min: TRY! Leicester 16-14 Leinster. Leinster are really flinging it around nicely again. A flowing right-to-left move ends with O'Driscoll ducking under a tackle and nearly breaking clear down the right. Then there's another phase, this time right-to-left, and again it's O'Driscoll nearly busting clear! Then suddenly a superburst of energy, Heaslip picking up the ball and bursting over the line, just to the right of the posts, with a little help from Jennings' heave-ho. Leinster deserved that for their sudden improvement after half time.
50 min: CONVERSION! Leicester 16-16 Leinster. No distance, no angle, no bother for Sexton. Penalty shoot-out, anyone?
52 min: A Leicester man hangs onto an opponent, just inside their own half, slightly to the left. That's a penalty: this is a huge kick. But Sexton's effort is a bit too far out, drifting wide right and dropping just short.
53 min: A Leicester change: White comes on for Castrogiovanni.
55 min: And another: Kayser is on for Chuter.
56 min: And now Leinster get in on the act: Jackman is replaced by Fogarty.
60 min: A lot of huff and puff at the moment, just inside the Leinster half. Leicester won't mind this, as they're steadying the ship after a poor start to the half.
61 min: Yet another change for Leicester: Moody is on for Woods.
61 min and a bit: Healy goes off for a bit. His blood replacement, McCormack, comes on. Nothing's really happening at the moment.
64 min: O'Driscoll is dumped onto his left shoulder and grimaces in pain. He doesn't look great. He's still on the pitch, but hiding out of harm's way on the wing.
65 min: Healy is back on for McCormack.
66 min: Both teams are content at the moment to hoof the ball back and forth up the pitch. Nothing of note is being achieved.
69 min: A bout of aimless hoofing momentarily ceases as Fitzgerald bursts forward on turboboost down the centre, but he's eventually stopped in his tracks. Then the hoofing begins again. This is like watching Wimbledon v Watford in 1987.
70 min: PENALTY! Leicester 16-19 Leinster. A Leicester player dives into a maul and falls offside. That's a penalty, just to the left of the sticks, 30 yards out. This is hard, but it is kickable. Sexton steps up and sets the ball just to the right of the posts - but it comes back in, just, and sails between them. Could that be the deciding moment?
72 min: The ball's sent down the Leinster left. Hamilton chases back after it, but instead of letting it bounce out of play, tries to catch and turn. Sadly for Leicester, he slips as he catches and concedes possession and ground. From the line out, Horgan nearly breaks clear down the other wing, but with the try line beckoning is bundled out of play by Tuilagi.
75 min: Mistakes are being made on both sides. Horgan knocks on while fumbling a long kick, then Vesty faffs around down the left, Hamilton style, to concede another needless line-out. Both sides seem very tense.
77 min: Have Leicester literally thrown away their last chance? They win a lineout just inside the Leinster half, a platform upon which to build, then throw it too long, past every man, allowing Jennings to scamper down the pitch and kick into touch near the left-hand corner. At least a couple of minutes have just gone up in smoke for Leicester, there, and there are only three left!
79 min: Leinster keep driving forward, deep in Leicester territory, but eventually hang onto the ball too long on the floor and concede a penalty. Vesty clips into touch just past the halfway line. Can they put together one last move?
LEINSTER ARE THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!!! Leicester 16-19 Leinster. Leicester surge down the centre, in an attempt to either win a penalty or get close enough to attempt a drop goal. But after an eight-phase move of unbelievable tension, they suddenly find themselves being pushed backwards and concede a penalty for holding on - and with the clock on 81 minutes, that's the end of the road for them! Leinster have finally landed the big one! That's a brilliant second-half performance by the Irish side, who were by far the better team. But how Leicester made them work for their prize
1. Can Leicester win their third Heineken Cup?
2. Can Leinster land their first, shaking off their image as serial chokers?
3. How on earth are the folk at Sky Sports going to abbreviate the two team names in their scorebox at the corner of the screen? Eh?
Kick off is at: 5pm. Is it called kick off in rugby? I don't know. (This may alert you to the fact that I will be winging it this afternoon.)
Leicester: G Murphy (captain); S Hamilton, A Erinle, D Hipkiss, A Tuilagi; S Vesty, J Dupuy; M Ayerza, G Chuter, M Castrogiovanni, T Croft, B Kay, C Newby, B Woods, J Crane.
Replacements: B Kayser, J White, L Deacon, L Moody, H Ellis, M Smith, J Murphy.
Leinster: I Nacewa; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, C Whitaker; C Healy, B Jackman, S Wright, L Cullen (captain), M O'Kelly, R Elsom, S Jennings, J Heaslip.
Replacements: J Fogarty, R McCormack, D Toner, S O'Brien, S Keogh, R Kearney, G Dempsey.
Murrayfield's mood. There's quite an atmosphere cooking. Meanwhile the PA blares out Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev, in an attempt to reclaim it from The Apprentice. If it segues into Dru Masters' incidental score I'm going to be very unhappy.
Murray's mood. Actually, sod it, whoever's in charge of the PA can blast out whatever pap they like, even Simply Red if they really must. Because Black Dog's here anyway. First off, Inverness Caledonian Thistle have just been relegated from the Scottish Premier League. BALLS TO EVERYTHING, BALLS TO IT ALL. Then, as if to symbolise this sorry state of affairs in some cheap and tenuous way, two crows started attacking a seagull out the back of Big Paper Towers. I'm not sure whether they managed to kill it, or eat it, or violate it, because mid-stramash an office alpha male closed the blinds. This rugby better be entertaining.
The music. It's finally turned for the worse, as I always knew it would: Murrayfield is now being entertained by a version of Live and Let Die as played by an easy-listening orchestra. The BBC Radio Big Band, maybe. Hold on, it's part of a medley; suddenly it's turned into Moon River. All we need is Val Doonican and the Mike Sammes Singers, and we've got ourselves a proper old-fashioned Saturday evening variety show. I wonder if we'll stop for a quiz segment at any point?
Leinster hoof it long, and we're off! Sky have gone for what is, in retrospect, a predictable LEIC v LEIN solution to the top-corner-of-the-screen problem. But it doesn't work, unless you stare at it. And concentrate. A lot.
2 min: A bit of early pressure from Leinster. They'd get the put-in at a scrum ten yards from the line, but Shane Jennings concedes a needless penalty with a pointless trip and Geordan Murphy is able to clear.
4 min: Julien Dupuy has the first whack for goal, Leicester winning a penalty just inside the opposition half, near the left touchline. It's a brave effort, but fades left at the last.
6 min: DROP GOAL! Leicester 0-3 Leinster. This is scrappy for a while, both teams trading Garryowens, until suddenly Rocky Elsom trundles powerfully down the left to make up plenty of ground. Leinster are held up for a while, but the ball's worked infield to O'Driscoll, who has time to camly lift a drop-goal effort between the posts. First blood to the Irish.
8 min: PENALTY! Leicester 3-3 Leinster. Luke Fitzgerald fumbles an easy catch after Murphy punts forwards. From the loose ball Jamie Heaslip holds his man down way too long, and concedes a penalty just on the 22, and just to the left. What a comedy of errors. Dupuy makes no mistake this time.
12 min: Shane Horgan hares down the right after Gordon D'Arcy's chip. Geordan Murphy comes over to bundle the ball into touch, just as it looked like the Leinster man was going to burst clear for the line.
14 min: Leinster are enjoying the lion's share of possession, but can't find a way through a resolute Leicester defence. Again and again they get fed up and end up kicking long for the corners; again and again Leicester punt it back upfied. This is rugby!
16 min: A hell of a burst from Fitzgerald down the left sets Leicester on the back foot. Sexton sends a brilliant kick whistling across the park and near the right-hand corner. Dupuy attempts to hack clear, but it's charged down by O'Kelly's face. Eventually the danger is mopped up by Murphy, but Leinster have their tails up here.
18 min: DROP GOAL! Leicester 3-6 Leinster. My word! From 40-odd yards, cutting inside from the left, Jonathan Sexton welts a stupidly enormous effort between the posts. Murphy watches it sail over in horror.
20 min: Sexton is everywhere. First he sends another crossfield kick into touch near the right-hand corner, pinning Leicester back. Then he busts straight through the centre, and so nearly goes over under the posts, but is held up at the very last. The Leinster support is in good voice, and no wonder.
21 min: O'Driscoll tries to release Hipkiss into space with a raking pass out right, but Tuilagi gets a hand to the ball. He so nearly catches, and would be clear with half of the pitch to go, but can't quite hold on and knocks on. That was a close shave: Leinster are playing some lovely stuff here, but won't want to get too cocky.
23 min: PENALTY! Leicester 3-9 Leinster. Leicester concede a penalty after O'Driscoll drives, head down, straight through the middle twice. First time he's held up, second time he offloads to Whittaker, who's held down. Sexton's kick, just inside the 22 to the left, sails through the posts. This is a really strong start by the Irish side, who have done everything but score a try. Leicester have yet to turn up.
27 min: Leicester hold onto the ball for a while, but they can't get anything going. Newby and Hamilton combine well to set the latter sashaying into the opposition half, but the move eventually breaks down as he's tackled and knocks on. "Who was the office alpha male who closed the blinds?" asks Mac Millings "You work for The Guardian - do you even have alpha males there?" Actually, that's a good point. No. No we don't. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza: we're not men.
30 min: What superb stuff from Hipkiss. He takes a terrible pass between his own posts, one which almost hits him in the face, and breaks down the left at pace, slaloming through four tackles then, upon sprinting up to the halfway line, pinging a long ball down the left. Leinster hack clear, but that's much better from the English side. No points yet from this move, but it has at least earned them some time in the opposition half. And they've not enjoyed much of that so far.
33 min: PENALTY! Leicester 6-9 Leinster Stan Wright is sinbinned for a ridiculous tackle on Sam Vesty, the big Leicester man in acres down the left, waiting for a pass he'll never take as he's flattened off the ball. Dupuy strokes the penalty over, giving Leicester some reward for their time in the Leinster half.
35 min: As a result of Wright being flung in the sinbin, Jennings is replaced by McCormack.
37 min: Suddenly this is all Leicester, the Irish side unable to keep the ball for any useful length of time. Croft tries to break down the left but is bundled out of play.
39 min: TRY! Leicester 11-9 Leinster. The Tigers end the half on the front foot. The front paws? Hipkiss breaks down the centre. The ball's shifted right to Vesty, who offloads to Woods, 15 yards out. Woods is travelling at pace, and despite some attention from Nacewa, reaches the line, just to the right of the posts, and slams the ball down confidently.
40 min: CONVERSION! Leicester 13-9 Leinster. Dupuy makes no mistake, and neither should he, it's right in front of the posts.
HALF TIME: Leicester 13-9 Leinster. And that's that for the half. Leicester were second best for most of it, but now look.
Those effing crows: "Please don't keep us in suspense, replies Mac Millings. "Defy the office alpha male, open the blinds, and check on the well-being/shredded corpse of the seagull." There's nothing there, Mac, this is the problem. The blinds were re-opened quite soon after, and all evidence of gull-based hanky panky was gone. So either the seagull escaped, which is unlikely on early evidence of the brouhaha, or the crows ate every last bit of it, before flying off cackling and belching. They could have dragged the seagull off somewhere else for a proper kicking, I suppose. Or perhaps the alpha male scaled the walls outside the building and cleaned away the feathered cadaver, in order to save Guardianesque feelings inside. We simply have no way of knowing.
And we're off again! Vesty dinks the ball forward to start the second half. There are two more minutes of the sinbin to go. Deacon has replaced Crane.
42 min: PENALTY! Leicester 16-9 Leinster. Healy boots the ball away while coming from an offside position. The cock-up is right in front of the posts, allowing Dupuy to clip the resulting penalty between them.
44 min: Wright is back from the bin. So Jennings comes back on too, McCormack going off.
46 min: Plenty of possession for Leinster again, now they're back up to 15 men. Murphy keeps kicking clear, but only down opposition throats, and the ball keeps coming back at the Tigers. O'Driscoll clips a ball down the right flank, pinning Leicester near their own corner flag.
47 min: Murphy, whose kicking has suddenly gone to pot, is replaced by Smith.
49 min: TRY! Leicester 16-14 Leinster. Leinster are really flinging it around nicely again. A flowing right-to-left move ends with O'Driscoll ducking under a tackle and nearly breaking clear down the right. Then there's another phase, this time right-to-left, and again it's O'Driscoll nearly busting clear! Then suddenly a superburst of energy, Heaslip picking up the ball and bursting over the line, just to the right of the posts, with a little help from Jennings' heave-ho. Leinster deserved that for their sudden improvement after half time.
50 min: CONVERSION! Leicester 16-16 Leinster. No distance, no angle, no bother for Sexton. Penalty shoot-out, anyone?
52 min: A Leicester man hangs onto an opponent, just inside their own half, slightly to the left. That's a penalty: this is a huge kick. But Sexton's effort is a bit too far out, drifting wide right and dropping just short.
53 min: A Leicester change: White comes on for Castrogiovanni.
55 min: And another: Kayser is on for Chuter.
56 min: And now Leinster get in on the act: Jackman is replaced by Fogarty.
60 min: A lot of huff and puff at the moment, just inside the Leinster half. Leicester won't mind this, as they're steadying the ship after a poor start to the half.
61 min: Yet another change for Leicester: Moody is on for Woods.
61 min and a bit: Healy goes off for a bit. His blood replacement, McCormack, comes on. Nothing's really happening at the moment.
64 min: O'Driscoll is dumped onto his left shoulder and grimaces in pain. He doesn't look great. He's still on the pitch, but hiding out of harm's way on the wing.
65 min: Healy is back on for McCormack.
66 min: Both teams are content at the moment to hoof the ball back and forth up the pitch. Nothing of note is being achieved.
69 min: A bout of aimless hoofing momentarily ceases as Fitzgerald bursts forward on turboboost down the centre, but he's eventually stopped in his tracks. Then the hoofing begins again. This is like watching Wimbledon v Watford in 1987.
70 min: PENALTY! Leicester 16-19 Leinster. A Leicester player dives into a maul and falls offside. That's a penalty, just to the left of the sticks, 30 yards out. This is hard, but it is kickable. Sexton steps up and sets the ball just to the right of the posts - but it comes back in, just, and sails between them. Could that be the deciding moment?
72 min: The ball's sent down the Leinster left. Hamilton chases back after it, but instead of letting it bounce out of play, tries to catch and turn. Sadly for Leicester, he slips as he catches and concedes possession and ground. From the line out, Horgan nearly breaks clear down the other wing, but with the try line beckoning is bundled out of play by Tuilagi.
75 min: Mistakes are being made on both sides. Horgan knocks on while fumbling a long kick, then Vesty faffs around down the left, Hamilton style, to concede another needless line-out. Both sides seem very tense.
77 min: Have Leicester literally thrown away their last chance? They win a lineout just inside the Leinster half, a platform upon which to build, then throw it too long, past every man, allowing Jennings to scamper down the pitch and kick into touch near the left-hand corner. At least a couple of minutes have just gone up in smoke for Leicester, there, and there are only three left!
79 min: Leinster keep driving forward, deep in Leicester territory, but eventually hang onto the ball too long on the floor and concede a penalty. Vesty clips into touch just past the halfway line. Can they put together one last move?
LEINSTER ARE THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!!! Leicester 16-19 Leinster. Leicester surge down the centre, in an attempt to either win a penalty or get close enough to attempt a drop goal. But after an eight-phase move of unbelievable tension, they suddenly find themselves being pushed backwards and concede a penalty for holding on - and with the clock on 81 minutes, that's the end of the road for them! Leinster have finally landed the big one! That's a brilliant second-half performance by the Irish side, who were by far the better team. But how Leicester made them work for their prize
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Next live show!!!
i do blog tv shows so if anybody would like to see one please comment telling me when you would like me to go on and i will try to oblige!! :)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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for those that actually care...
for those of you that actually care, you may have noticed that there is a player above the blog title now!! you can play all of ollersons videos from here!!
enjoy!!
enjoy!!
more linking (see below post)
below is how to link using xhtml, however to use this trick in standard html you simpy remove the <> and also the < / p >
this will produce the same effect using the html approach.
this will produce the same effect using the html approach.
ammendment of below post...cleaner links
sorry i forgot to post spaces in below post so all you could see was the finished product here is how you do it...
first you type:<>< href = " (with no spaces) then u insert the url or web address... e.g. www.youtube.com/olliek222 then u type: . html ">
(with no spaces)
your link shoud then appear like this when its been saved>>
first you type:<>< href = " (with no spaces) then u insert the url or web address... e.g. www.youtube.com/olliek222 then u type: . html ">
(with no spaces)
your link shoud then appear like this when its been saved>>
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
beerin..
arsenal 4, liverpool 4.... what a result for utd!! it wud be a crime to not go on the beer in celebration... so bring on the town!! cant wait... if utd dont win this league i will so just go sleep for about 3 weeks straight.. a type of hibernation if u will!!!.. bring on da beer baby!!!!!
see ya after!!
see ya after!!
back to college...
back to college today, what a disaster... exams loomin, pressure on...and then i go and stay in bed until 3.45 pm... god im a disaster!! im definitely gonna end up a kanye west aka a college dropout... anybody know how to gain interest in a particular topic let me kno!! or else im for the scrapheap!! ha
Sunday, April 19, 2009
sunday!! yay...
so here we are again, sunday, a classy day!! better than monday im sure u will agree!! for myself sunday= soccer!!
da crack do be mighty and we arent too bad either i suppose.. they are a mad bunch, auld fellas and young fellas and we kickin balls, a loada sweaty men runnin around a field! ha... sounds great does it not??
anywayz, there is a shower playin dat soccer and ya would be pure broke up after em. they would kick lumps outta ya the whores!!...but tis great all the same!!
the sun is bustin out of it outside now and theirs a few haggered old biddys swannin' about and they all togged out in the summer clothes. tis some country really, when it rains everyone is sayin "oh jaysus that rain is terrible if only we could get a bitta sun"... then when tis sunny all ya hear is "oh feck the heat is swelterin abroad!! you wouldnt wanna be out in it for long"... such a miserable bunch!! not pleased when the weather is good or when tis bad, ya would wanna tar and feather em really for bein such clowns!!
anyway, thats the sunday synopsis...
see ya after!!
da crack do be mighty and we arent too bad either i suppose.. they are a mad bunch, auld fellas and young fellas and we kickin balls, a loada sweaty men runnin around a field! ha... sounds great does it not??
anywayz, there is a shower playin dat soccer and ya would be pure broke up after em. they would kick lumps outta ya the whores!!...but tis great all the same!!
the sun is bustin out of it outside now and theirs a few haggered old biddys swannin' about and they all togged out in the summer clothes. tis some country really, when it rains everyone is sayin "oh jaysus that rain is terrible if only we could get a bitta sun"... then when tis sunny all ya hear is "oh feck the heat is swelterin abroad!! you wouldnt wanna be out in it for long"... such a miserable bunch!! not pleased when the weather is good or when tis bad, ya would wanna tar and feather em really for bein such clowns!!
anyway, thats the sunday synopsis...
see ya after!!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
does this happen to all youtube posters??
hello again,
just wonderin', i googled my user name today to see was my channel listed yet but what i found was not my channel, but i did find most of my videos... posted on other websites?!?!?!?! however its not all bad because i have been credited with the video and a neat link to my channel!!!... just curious- does this happen to most videos?
id also like your responses on whether you think this is a good thing or not!!!
see ya after!!!
just wonderin', i googled my user name today to see was my channel listed yet but what i found was not my channel, but i did find most of my videos... posted on other websites?!?!?!?! however its not all bad because i have been credited with the video and a neat link to my channel!!!... just curious- does this happen to most videos?
id also like your responses on whether you think this is a good thing or not!!!
see ya after!!!
Friday, April 17, 2009
new youtube layout...
on my travels through countless rubbish on the net today i came across a little gem which may be of interest to other youtubers like myself- the new beta channel layout... its all being kept on th Q-T and is only being used by a handful of people...
for those of you that wud like to know how to access the layout drop me a comment on my youtube channel and ill let ya know...
thats all for now!!
see ya after!! :)
for those of you that wud like to know how to access the layout drop me a comment on my youtube channel and ill let ya know...
thats all for now!!
see ya after!! :)
a cure for the disease... BOREDOM!!
hello again,
can someone please tell me- why do we get bored so often?? or more to the point why do i get bored so often?!
on my quest to youtube fame i've come across many things that have relieved my boredom temporarily, yet here i am once again- as bored as an ibiza D.J. at a priests convention!!
could someone please suggest to me what an unemployed, youtube hero wannabe can do to stop my brain turning to jelly and rendering me an educated ape!!!
any good websites that you could suggest? or any funny stories that you could tell to save me from a certain demise?!?!
all help appreciated!!! LOL.
in hindsight i would like to apoogise for this rambling and load of utter shite that i have exposed you too...
stay classy!! ;)
can someone please tell me- why do we get bored so often?? or more to the point why do i get bored so often?!
on my quest to youtube fame i've come across many things that have relieved my boredom temporarily, yet here i am once again- as bored as an ibiza D.J. at a priests convention!!
could someone please suggest to me what an unemployed, youtube hero wannabe can do to stop my brain turning to jelly and rendering me an educated ape!!!
any good websites that you could suggest? or any funny stories that you could tell to save me from a certain demise?!?!
all help appreciated!!! LOL.
in hindsight i would like to apoogise for this rambling and load of utter shite that i have exposed you too...
stay classy!! ;)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
My first blog...
ok, so its officially my first proper blog on this site... question is what should i talk about??
i thought about it and decided that i would basicaly talk about how long its taken me to get this much stuff up and runnin...
so if im being honest it was simply alcohol, a bet and a whole lotta boredom that got the ball rollin. Went drinkin a few weeks ago with one of my friends and things got a bit messy, i.e. we drank waaaaaay too much, as usual the songs started and some creative minds composed a classic. so i boldly made the statement that i would put the song up on you tube but i was told that im always sayin stuff like dat when im drunk (i do talk a lot of rubbish, even when sober, never mind drunk) and that i would never actualy do it.
so a few days passed and the boredom kicked in... then while on you tube i noticed i had a user account... so i thought what the hell ill upload the song and i did... within 2 days i had over 500 views. so then i began thinkin that this could possibly be the solution to the boredom that chews my very soul on a continual basis.
i posted some more random videos but none were as succesful as the original. so i realised i needed to promote my videos and get some in-sight into the videos people want and so here we are!!!
p.s. the original video is below for anyone who is interested!!!
i thought about it and decided that i would basicaly talk about how long its taken me to get this much stuff up and runnin...
so if im being honest it was simply alcohol, a bet and a whole lotta boredom that got the ball rollin. Went drinkin a few weeks ago with one of my friends and things got a bit messy, i.e. we drank waaaaaay too much, as usual the songs started and some creative minds composed a classic. so i boldly made the statement that i would put the song up on you tube but i was told that im always sayin stuff like dat when im drunk (i do talk a lot of rubbish, even when sober, never mind drunk) and that i would never actualy do it.
so a few days passed and the boredom kicked in... then while on you tube i noticed i had a user account... so i thought what the hell ill upload the song and i did... within 2 days i had over 500 views. so then i began thinkin that this could possibly be the solution to the boredom that chews my very soul on a continual basis.
i posted some more random videos but none were as succesful as the original. so i realised i needed to promote my videos and get some in-sight into the videos people want and so here we are!!!
p.s. the original video is below for anyone who is interested!!!
Help...
I am now appealing to you!! The countless amounts of legendary internet geniuses and indeed the regular joe soap who likes to be in the know!!
could somebody please tell me if they know of any free software which will allow me to record videos from my webcam to post on youtube (please dont just say about direct upload because i would like to edit my videos so that you dont have to sit and watch all the crap, useless chit chat that nobody wants to see).
i want to be able to make quality videos and so if anybody can help me out it would be much appreciated!!
comments pleeeeeeeeeaaaasse!!!
could somebody please tell me if they know of any free software which will allow me to record videos from my webcam to post on youtube (please dont just say about direct upload because i would like to edit my videos so that you dont have to sit and watch all the crap, useless chit chat that nobody wants to see).
i want to be able to make quality videos and so if anybody can help me out it would be much appreciated!!
comments pleeeeeeeeeaaaasse!!!
Welcome to Ollerson TV...
Hello,
Welcome to my blog, firstly i would just like to thank anyone that has taken the time to drop by. basically this site is an extension of my youtube channel ( www.youtube.com/olliek222 ) but with one exception, i will be posting blogs here.
i can't seem to fully sort out my software so that i can video blog and so i've decided to just start a regular old run of the mill blog until i can get sorted...
i hope that some people will take the time to read my blogs and in doing so will get a feel for my personality, which will hopefully lead to you subscribing to my youtube channel ( which is free dont worry!!) and watching my videos wich i will soon be posting...
anyway thanks again for stopping by, and why not drop a comment before you leave?!?!?!
Welcome to my blog, firstly i would just like to thank anyone that has taken the time to drop by. basically this site is an extension of my youtube channel ( www.youtube.com/olliek222 ) but with one exception, i will be posting blogs here.
i can't seem to fully sort out my software so that i can video blog and so i've decided to just start a regular old run of the mill blog until i can get sorted...
i hope that some people will take the time to read my blogs and in doing so will get a feel for my personality, which will hopefully lead to you subscribing to my youtube channel ( which is free dont worry!!) and watching my videos wich i will soon be posting...
anyway thanks again for stopping by, and why not drop a comment before you leave?!?!?!
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