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Another cracking Christmas collaboration with Barbour, featuring a very special appearance 👀😍 #Aardman #BarbourChristmas @shaunthesheep

Matthias Jaissle on Fulham: "It is on us to go again in the right direction and show better performances. Analyse in detail, speak and then regroup. You see players, in their faces, they want to show a reaction. We need to step up in all the things we can influence, use every situation to make the smaller details better."

One of the most well preserved streets in Europe ♥️ The Shambles, York 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, and most of the timber framed buildings you see today date from around 1350 to 1475. The name comes from the Anglo-Saxon "fleshammels", meaning flesh shelves, because this was York's butchers' street. Right up until the 1870s, there were still around two dozen butchers' shops here. Look closely and you can still spot the meat hooks on some of the shopfronts. The upper floors lean in so close that in places you can nearly touch both sides of the street, a design that kept the meat out of direct sunlight. Not a single butcher remains, but the street is still standing after nearly 1,000 years.

How last night went, from a Russian perspective

I failed 21 SAS selection. One hundred and twenty men started. Four finished. I was not one of them. I do not tell that story to be humble. I tell it because of what happened next, which nobody ever asks about. I went home. I was 19 years old and I had failed at the one thing I had told everyone I was going to do. There is a particular silence that follows that. Friends are kind. Family are careful. And you sit in your childhood bedroom and understand that the failure is now a fact about you. Six months later I went back and did the whole thing again. Passed the second time. Here is what I actually learned, and it is not what people expect. It was not about grit. It was not about wanting it more. It was that the first attempt was not wasted, it was the reconnaissance. I knew where the ground broke you. I knew what the third day felt like. I was not braver the second time, I was better informed. Most people treat a failure as a verdict. It is data. The only real failure is the one you refuse to go back and look at.