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In ancient Rome people used to say that the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman was that she was not talked about or mentioned by anyone. I think the same rule applies to referees today. More and more referees are being scrutinized: by the fans, the media, the managers and the players. Everyone and anyone that feels slightly peeved feels entitled to constantly criticise referees so much so that they are rarely talked about in a positive light. The result of this was for the rules to become ever more rigid making it clearer for referees to understand exactly what each situation called for. However has this situation lead to a lack of common sense being used by the men who take charge of our sport?

Every sport needs rules, but the reason we have referees is because we understand that every situation is different. There needs to be some element of human judgement, but that does not mean it is necessarily used.

Inconsistencies

Billy Sharp, the Doncaster striker whose newborn son died just days after being born, celebrated his goal against Middlesbrough by lifting his shirt to reveal a message to his son. Darren Deadman, the referee for the game, did not book Sharp. This is just one of many examples of where a referee should be able to use his common sense, and he should be applauded for it. It does not happen enough.

As Paolo Bandini points out in the Guardian: Romario, on his final appearance for Brazil, revealed a shirt that said “I have a little daughter with Down’s syndrome who is a princess.” He got booked.

Take Robin Van Persie’s red card at the Nou Camp last season. Yes, to kick away the ball after the whistle has blown can be punished with a yellow card. But did the referee make the right choice to give Robin his second yellow? Maybe Van Persie couldn’t hear the whistle above the 110,000 strong crowd, maybe he could; but did he really think it was worth sending off a player in such an important match? Who knows whether it would have changed the game or not, Arsenal were playing terribly but they only needed one goal to go through.

Perhaps Massimo Busacca and the other referees who fail to act with common sense fear reprisals from their superiors, or perhaps they lack confidence within their own common sense and so refuse to use it. Either way the situation needs to be addressed.

On the one hand FIFA and UEFA give backing to their referees by saying that goal line, and other, technology is not necessary but on the other hand the referees clearly do not feel confident enough to bend the rules for the sake of a flowing game. And they should. One of the main criticisms of goal line technology is that it breaks up the flow of our sport, that it slows it down and makes it less entertaining. Well, bad refereeing is doing this anyway. FIFA and UEFA need to create an environment whereby although there are rigid rules referees are still given some level of autonomy, the last thing we need is for the rules to restricting those who enforce them.

Solution

There is no easy solution to this problem. If we accept that referees, as humans, are able to use common sense then we must also accept that, as humans, they are liable to make mistakes. But the attitude towards them from all parties can change and enhance their performance. In rugby the referee has total control, the absence of abuse allows the referees to have confidence in their decisions and if, in particular situations, they feel unsure they can consult a technological aide. The result? You rarely hear of mistakes. Of course they still happen but the difference is that in rugby they give their referee every bit of help they can. They recognise the importance of the job and the respect deserved. In football it seems we do everything we can to make it as difficult as possible, and their performances suffer as a result.

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Aston Villa winger Marc Albighton has stated that he is not a cheat, despite Wolves fans venting their frustration against him at the weekend.

Karl Henry was sent off for kicking out at the Villa midfielder in Alex McLeish’s side’s 3-2 win over the Molineux club, and Albrighton was given a hard time by the home fans after the incident.

Despite this, Albrighton has maintained that he was the victim and should not be accused of playacting.

“It [the kick] was pretty hard and it winded me. It’s something I wouldn’t want again,” he told Mirror Football.

“It hurts, definitely, when I read the papers on Sunday and Monday. It does hurt a lot, especially when people in the crowd call you a cheat when I was the victim, on the floor getting kicked.

“But that’s football, part and parcel of the game these days, and you have to take the criticism thrown at you. It spurs you on to do even better when people are booing you and calling you a cheat.

“I think he probably saw the red mist and lost his head a little. He’s probably a really nice guy off the pitch although I don’t really know him.

“Something stupid came over him. I’m not saying it’s right to go around kicking people on the sly but in the heat of the moment, these things happen. The emotions are high and the pressure is there,” he admitted.

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By Gareth McKnight

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We get a lot of criticism in this country for the way we produce our players. Accusations of a coaching mentality based on direct football and not enough investment in our youth appears to be in stark contrast to better-organised foreign national academies such as France’s Clairefontaine, one of twelve national academies in France.

Gareth Southgate, Head of Elite Development at the FA, has been one of the major critics for the way we coach our football and has suggested that the way we start coaching young players should be different. Southgate proposed preventing players from playing eleven a side games until they were thirteen. His reasoning for this was that similar systems occur in Spain, France and Italy. The benefits of this proposal are that players concentrate more on technique and skill as opposed to physicality and athleticism.

Everyone can see why this would be positive for the English game, too rarely do we see players such as Wilshere or Rooney come through with such natural ability and technique. However this doesn’t mean we should abandon the ‘English’ style of football altogether, nor does it mean that we can’t find a balance between the way we coach now and the continental approach.

Wallsend

Undoubtedly one of the most successful junior football teams in England, Wallsend graduates include: Alan Shearer, Peter Beardsley, Michael Bridges, Steve Bruce, Michael Carrick, Steven Taylor and Brian Laws. Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle, has produced sixty-seven professional footballers in all and thirty-four coaches. They must be doing something right.

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Senrab F.C.

Based in East London Senrab is our other bastion of English coaching. A true vindication of the way we coach our youth the Sunday League club has produced players such as: Sol Campbell, Jermain Defoe, John Terry, Bobby Zamora and Ledley King as well as coaches like Ray Wilkins and Alan Curbishley.

Between these two clubs some of our country’s best players have been produced. Brian Laws, one of Wallsend’s graduates, told The Telegraph that the Tyneside outfit taught him:

“Guidance and discipline. It was always very well organised, everything always ran smoothly. Kids’ football could be pretty chaotic, but not at Wallsend…you were treated like a pro. It gave you a sense of comfort, and you’d do everything the best you could…they were good people and you gave them your all.”

Lessons to be learned

Our academy systems in England may not be perfect, but that does not mean that the formula is completely wrong. People criticise English coaching for a whole number of reasons but a large part of that is a consequence of the failures of the national team. People see the failures of the national team as a failure of the way those players have been taught. And maybe to a certain extent that is the case. However it is far more likely that there are simply not enough clubs like Wallsend or Senrab around. Perhaps before completely revamping the coaching system in this country people like Gareth Southgate, with his position of responsibility, should try to learn from these few successful clubs before forcing them to change their approach.

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Before we look abroad to find examples of success we should be looking at examples of success in our own country. Yes we can take positives from foreign systems and incorporate them in to our own, not to do so would be both ignorant and arrogant, but that doesn’t mean that there are not many strengths in the way our coaching is carried out. We have produced some of the best players in the world in this country and our failures on the international stage are down to a number of reasons, not just the lack of basic training for under fourteens.

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While the Luis Suarez racism case has enveloped the club for the past couple of months, intense scrutiny on the performances of certain individuals on the pitch has become somewhat slacker. Summer signing Stewart Downing, who arrived from Aston Villa for the staggering amount of £20m, appears to be a player going through a serious crisis of confidence. The disparity between his performances on the pitch and his value off it are so great at the moment that it beggars belief that he ever cost that much in the first place. Is he Dalglish’s worst signing since returning back to the club?

The gigantic white elephant in the room is, of course, Andy Carroll. The £35m frontman does himself no favours, though. Arriving at the club as the ‘big man’ to Luis Suarez’s ‘little man’, the two have played very few games together. Carroll has either been in the process of returning to full fitness or has been out injured. It has been a never-ending cycle of disappointment.

The galling thing about Carroll is the misconception that Liverpool are not playing to his strengths. The club’s summer purchases of the likes of Downing, Henderson and Enrique were all geared towards getting the best out of Carroll and getting balls into the box. Liverpool, out of all the teams plying their trade in the top flight this term have had the most crosses.

Carroll has varied between lazy and disinterested. His work-rate is at times non-existent and he simply doesn’t look as strong as the bulldozing number nine of yesteryear at Newcastle. His hold up play resembles a man trying to control a balloon and more often than not, balls played up to him come straight back.

He’s not difficult to defend against for ninety per cent of the time, yet on that rare occasion when he does threaten, he can look a real handful. Carroll has been abysmal so far, let’s make no bones about it, but his one saving grace is that there is at least something to work with there. He has the potential to be a great number nine in the future, but only if he starts to believe in that himself and focus less on the price tag hanging around his neck and more on improving his performances on the pitch.

This brings us to Stewart Downing; a player whose reputation has always proved greater than the sum of his parts. Downing should be a byword for underperformance. The creeping suspicion is that he has always struggled when there has been any pressure placed upon him. Poor England performances against the likes of Andorra and Macedonia have become a hallmark of his international career.

Downing has never been blessed with pace and his strength is supposed to lay in his delivery from wide areas. In 20 Premier League games this season, Downing is without an assist. That is not to say, of course, that he has been complete and utter pony for the entire time, but more often than not his delivery leaves a lot to be desired. Frequently unable to beat the first man, too slow to take on a full back and with a worrying propensity to come in off the flank and narrow a midfield devoid of width in the first place even further – Downing has been a huge disappointment.

A lot of the disappointment originates due to the nature of his hefty price tag. Downing always performs well when he’s a big fish in a small pond. His final season at Villa, in a side little was expected of, Downing at times outshone Ashley Young – a player who himself started brightly at Man Utd but has since gone off the boil and faded terribly.

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The relative size of the Downing fee appears to derive from two consequences. Firstly, the fact that Villa themselves appeared to have overpaid for him back in 2009 when he signed for £12m, which meant that even a modicum of success at Villa Park was bound to increase upon an already sizeable valuation due to the nature of his nationality, with English talent still acquiring a baffling premium.

Secondly, the fact that Villa were reluctant to let go of both of Downing and Young in one summer. Ashley Young moved first to Man Utd for £17m and this indirectly inflated the Downing valuation. Villa were in a strong bargaining position, Liverpool, having just been beaten by Man Utd to Young, were not.

In 46 efforts on goal this season, Downing is yet to trouble the scorers. For a player that cost £20m, that is a quite frankly appalling return. The contrast down the left flank alone is enough to make the blood boil – the machine that is Jose Enrique is quicker with the ball than Downing is without it.

Pundits aplenty have decried Liverpool’s lack of cutting edge this term, Dalglish even admitted as much himself after the defeat to Man City this week after calling on his side to develop a more clinical edge in front of goal.

A decent barometer of the toothless nature of Downing et al comes courtesy of the fantastic Opta stats – Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea have all had 282 shots on goal in the Premier League this season, the top three for such a stat in the entire league. Man City have had 132 efforts on target and have 56 goals to show for it. Chelsea from the same number of efforts on goal have been on target with 126 shots and have scored 39 times. Liverpool, however, have been on target with only 114 shots on goal and have a quite miserable return of just 24 goals, less than both Bolton and Blackburn.

It’s also worth pointing out that this Liverpool side have scored the exact same number of goals as Roy Hogson’s team had by this point last season. The difference between performances of the two sides is clear for all to see, though. Whereas Hodgson’s Liverpool were devoid of anything even resembling creativity, it’s clear from the aforementioned stats that at least Dalglish’s side are creating chances. The problem lies in the personnel, though, and their inability to finish them off, with Downing a main culprit.

Jordan Henderson may go missing at times and may appear too eager to play the simple option rather than risk the wrath of the terraces for trying something different, but his purchase has to be seen as a long-term investment and he’ll come good eventually, with him showing signs in the past few games in a more familiar central midfield position.

Carroll has been a huge disappointment and the only thing currently stopping him going down as the Premier League’s biggest ever flop is the fact that Fernando Torres cost Chelsea the princely sum of £50m on the same day. However, while he may have a lot of facets to his game that need improving, Liverpool fans should reserve a smidgen of hope that he’ll come good also. He’s not a ready-made striker and will require a lot of patience, but there is at least potential.

Downing, though, at 27 years of age should surely be approaching the peak of his powers. If a manager investing £20m in you and challenging you to help spearhead the rebuilding of a great club like Liverpool isn’t enough to give you confidence, I don’t know what is.

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It looked a risky purchase at the time but it’s of no coincidence that the fates of Liverpool’s two biggest transfer mishaps in recent times are intertwined and their underperformance interlinked. Carroll at least has the excuse that the service hasn’t been up to scratch, though, whereas for Downing, there is no hiding place.

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Kevin Nolan has urged former Newcastle United teammate Joey Barton to join him at West Ham, the Mirror reports.

The former Magpies captain moved to Upton Park in June after a falling out with the clubs hierarchy over a new contract.

Barton has also quarrelled with owner Mike Ashley after his outbursts on Twitter and is available to leave St James Park on a free transfer.

Nolan believes Barton needs to escape the tyranny on Tyneside and insists he’ll be appreciated more in East London.

“Would Joey Barton come here? Well, I came here, so I can’t see why Joey Barton would not come,” Nolan said.

“It is a massive club. The way he has been treated over the last couple of years, he is probably looking for an escape.

“He knows I’m here, he knows Sam [who signed Barton for Newcastle in June 2007] is here and what we are about – I can look after him and he can look after me!”

With a year left on his contract Barton could leave Newcastle before the transfer window closes.

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It was current Hammers boss Sam Allardyce who signed him during his brief tenure on Tyneside but whether Barton would be prepared to drop down a division remains to be seen.

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Arsenal look set to land long-term target Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain according to the Telegraph with Arsene Wenger finally making moves in the transfer market.

The Southampton winger has been tracked by the Gunners for some time and now looks set to follow in the footsteps of former Saint Theo Walcott in moving to North London.

A fee of £12 million has been protracted with Arsenal paying £7 million up front and the remaining £5 million being paid through performance-related add-ons.

Southampton’s insistence of adding a 40 per cent sell-on fee almost caused the deal to collapse only for both parties to reach an agreement after further talks.

His move to the Emirates will certainly prove to be a major coup for Wenger with the 17-year-old also being monitored by Liverpool and Manchester United.

However the England Under-21 star has always maintained that his preference was a move to the Emirates. Despite the prospect of a season of limited Premier League action he is keen to make the move to London.

It will also be a substantial boost to Wenger and the Gunners fan who have endured a difficult summer in the transfer market so far.

The deal for Oxlade-Chamberlain will certainly appease those in the stands who have craved some serious transfer activity with Gervinho the only major incoming.

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Arsenal expect the deal to be completed this week with personal terms expected to be a mere formality.

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The end of the football season has made me twiddle my thumbs, awaiting confirmed transfer news and the fixtures that will be out on Friday. In between these thoughts, I’ve been thinking of football from yesteryear and like my article on the top ten football nostalgia back in February, I’ve decided to re-visit it, with another 10 examples of what made Football ‘ruddy amazing back in the day!

If you’ve got your own suggestions, then please comment as I want to know. Perhaps we can share our football nostalgia to stop going into close season insanity and depression which is very, very common. Don’t worry, a trip down memory lane should help and remember, the 2011/2012 football fixtures are released on Friday morning! I certainly can’t wait..

Click on the League Ladders below to see Part Two

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Everton scored a controversial equaliser to draw 2-2 with Aston Villa and leave Gerard Houllier?s side in the relegation scrapheap.Leon Osman had given the Toffees a first-half lead before Villa roared back in the second with two goals from England striker Darren Bent.

Everton replied when Leighton Baines scored from the spot after Phil Jagielka went down under pressure from Jean Makoun. But the visitors were unhappy with the decision and the result leaves them just two points above the danger zone.

Villa boss Gerrard Houllier brought back Gabriel Agbonlahor into an attacking line-up alongside Stewart Downing, Ashley Young and Bent.

Meanwhile, Everton’s resources were so stretched that none of their substitutes had any Premier League experience.

Striker Louis Saha has been ruled out for the season putting the onus on Beckford and the former Leeds striker missed an early chance when he raced onto Kyle Walker’s loose back pass but his shot was well saved by Brad Friedel.

Villa responded well and went close when Luke Young’s cross eluded everyone before Nigel Reo-Coker’s strike was deflected over by a desperate Tony Hibbert block.

Everton were ahead in the 39th minute when Osman skipped inside Richard Dunne and fired in a strike that Friedel got a hand to but could not stop from rolling over the line.

Villa came out for the second half fired up and were level within two minutes when Downing’s dangerous cross was smashed into the roof of the net by Bent. Walker then blasted over from close range as the visitors pushed for a second.

But they rode their luck when Jonny Heitinga’s close-range header from a corner hit Friedel on the head and away to safety.

In the 68th minute, Beckford smashed a strike against the underside of the bar, which was ruled to have not crossed the line.

And to add insult to injury, Villa broke to the other end of the pitch and Bent slid home Ashley Young’s flick-on.

With 15 minutes to go, Osman failed to hit the target with the goal at his mercy.

But the equaliser finally came when Makoun was adjudged to have brought down Jagielka for Everton’s first penalty of the season, which Baines dispatched.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini said having his squad well rested was the key to their 5-0 thrashing of Sunderland at home on Sunday.Adam Johnson opened the scoring after only nine minutes before Argentinean ace Carlos Tevez doubled their advantage from the penalty spot six minutes later.

Second-half strikes from David Silva, Patrick Vieira and Yaya Toure completed the rout and Mancini said his side had benefitted from a lighter schedule in recent weeks.

“In the last 45 days we’ve played every three days and we’ve had more player injuries. That was the problem,” Mancini said.

“Now all the players have recovered and we play Saturday to Saturday we don’t have a problem.”

“We hope we continue to play very well like today – but sometimes it depends on the opponents.”

“I think we played very well. We started well and pressed from the first minute.”

The win lifted City a point above Chelsea into third place in the English Premier League, and the Italian has his sights set on leapfrogging Arsenal into second.

“It was important for us to win this game after the results on Saturday,” he said.

“We are now third but we have to remember that Chelsea have a game in hand. Can we make second? Yes. But there is still a lot of work ahead.”

Sunderland boss Steve Bruce was bitterly disappointed by his team’s capitulation, their sixth loss from seven games, which sees them just eight points clear of the relegation zone with seven games to play.

“My reaction to that can only be total disappointment in the way we played and how we conducted ourselves,” Bruce said.

“We were nowhere near what we’ve been used to this season and we have to make sure we respond in the right manner.”

“We looked very, very disappointing today and as the manager I take responsibility for that.”

“Make no mistake, as from tomorrow we’ll be working very hard on the training ground to try and get us back to where we were.”

Resignation – something tendered by the now former President Christian Wulff on Friday morning. No one at Bayern Munich will offer theirs yet but in deepest Badem-Wuttemberg, Germany’s most successful club slipped further behind Borussia Dortmund in the race for the title.

The Reds are now third, the same position they finished last season after another tepid away showing. Jupp Heycnkes, who was in charge last year at runners up Bayer Leverkusen, is unfamiliar to poor showings on the road. With his previous employers, he enjoyed the best away record in the division in the 2010/2011 season.

However, Bayern’s off colour showing at lowly Freiburg means his side have only won two of their last eight away matches in the Bundesliga. Their opponents on Saturday evening deserve credit for their determined performance. It might just irk Freiburg fans though that they’re the bottom placed side in Germany’s elite, in the knowledge their team can perform to that standard.

Two of their relegation rivals also had the challenge of trying to upset another two of the division’s high fliers. However, neither the recently wretched Hertha Berlin nor Kaiserslautern were able to overcome either of the league’s Borussias. Both victories were narrow which is of credit to the basement battlers. Hertha were greeted with the news on Friday that Otto Rehhagel would take over the vacant manager’s position or should it be Captain Otto?

He told Bild: “The Hertha ship has not sunk, but it has a large leak. I always have the last word. I am now there for Hertha, day and night, and I am always punctual.” His imminent arrival was unable to prevent Kevin Grosskreutz from grabbing a 1-0 win for Dortmund, maintaining the Champions position at the top.

Monchengladbach moved into second meanwhile as they emerged victorious at the Betzenberg, in a game which had two outstanding goals. Hermann put the away side ahead before a beautiful intricate move ended in Arango using the outside of his left foot to curl the ball past Kevin Trapp. Leon Jessen’s 30 yard thunderbolt halved the deficit but the counter attacking demons of Gladbach held on, meaning the Foals moved ahead of Bayern Munich for the first time since August.

The one place where Bayern have found consistency is at home, winning nine of their eleven at the Allianz Arena. However, Schalke visit next weekend.They’re now the top scorers in the Bundesliga having beaten Wolfsburg 4-0 on Sunday. Next weekend’s match-up will see the league’s top goalscorers, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Mario Gomez go head to head. Should the Royal Blues win, they’ll move above their hosts. Huub Stevens must seek inspiration from the forces above – no, nothing supernatural, just Gladbach and Dortmund who have both won in Munich this season

Each of the top four have key players missing currently and the table shows who’s currently coping the best. Lying just four points off the top, it would be foolish to rule Bayern out of the title race, although they are starting to lose vital ground on leaders Borussia Dortmund.

However, they haven’t had the panache of Champions. As Captain Philip Lahm stated after Saturday’s game, “If we continue to play like we did today, it will be hard to win the title.” Whilst they are not resigned to losing the title just yet, anyone connected with Bayern Munich will have felt more than an air of resignation after their latest performance.

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Matchday 22 Results:

Hoffenheim 1-1 Mainz

Bayer Leverkusen 4-1 Augsburg

Hamburg 1-3 Werder Bremen

Hertha Berlin 0-1 Borussia Dortmund

Kaiserslautern 1-2 Gladbach

Nuremberg 2-1 Cologne

Freiburg 0-0 Bayern Munich

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Schalke 4-0 Wolfsburg

Hannover 4-2 Stuttgart

Bundesliga Table

Rank

Club

Matches

W*

D*

L*

G*

GD*

PTS*

1

Borussia Dortmund

22

15

4

3

47:14

+33

49

CL*

2

Borussia Mönchengladbach

22

14

4

4

36:13

+23

46

CL*

3

FC Bayern Munich

22

14

3

5

49:14

+35

45

CL*

4

FC Schalke 04

22

14

2

6

50:28

+22

44

CL* Qual.

5

SV Werder Bremen

22

10

6

6

37:36

+1

36

EL* Qual.

6

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

22

9

7

6

32:29

+3

34

EL* Qual.

7

Hannover 96

22

8

10

4

27:27

0

34

8

VfL Wolfsburg

22

8

3

11

27:42

-15

27

9

VfB Stuttgart

22

7

5

10

33:32

+1

26

10

1899 Hoffenheim

22

6

8

8

24:26

-2

26

11

Hamburger SV

22

6

8

8

27:37

-10

26

12

1. FC Nuremberg

22

7

4

11

21:32

-11

25

13

1. FSV Mainz 05

22

5

9

8

30:36

-6

24

14

1. FC Köln

22

7

3

12

30:43

-13

24

15

Hertha BSC Berlin

22

4

8

10

25:37

-12

20

16

1. FC Kaiserslautern

22

3

9

10

16:28

-12

18

Play-offs

17

FC Augsburg

22

3

9

10

20:37

-17

18

Relegation

18

SC Freiburg

22

4

6

12

27:47

-20

18

Relegation

Table thanks to Bundesliga Official Website

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