Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag After England’s Lionesses stormed to victory at the 2022 Euros last year, eager fans are excited to see how they’ll do at this year’s Football World Cup.The 2023 Women’s Football World Cup is being hosted by Australia and New Zealand and, with interest in the women’s game growing and growing, is set to be the largest in history as 36 teams will be vying for glory. Despite the tough competition, the Lionesses look like they stand a pretty good chance and the current odds that they bring it home for England are slated at 5/1. But who are the women of the team? Here’s a full list… Goalkeepers Mary Earps Mary, 30, plays for Manchester United and is widely regarded as one of the best in the business.
From the Shankill to the suburbs: How loyalist hardman 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair brought mayhem to the streets of Greater Manchester
02.07.2023 - 15:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
On the morning of December 16, 2003, John 'Fat Jackie' Thompson got into his red Ford Escort and set off for work. A few minutes later, after driving over a speed bump near his home in Halliwell in Bolton, he heard a rattle then a loud bang.
A block of explosives fell to the floor together with the magnets that had been used to attach it. The detonator had exploded, but not with enough force to set off the bomb that had been planted directly under the driver's seat.
It was the surest sign yet that a feud which had torn apart the largest loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland had landed in the the quiet suburbs of Greater Manchester. Thompson was a close associate of Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair, leader of the Ulster Defence Association's notorious C company.
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Adair had risen through the ranks of the Ulster Freedom Fighters in the 1990s establishing a power base on Belfast's Lower Shankill estate to become one of its most feared gang leaders. In 1993 he escaped an IRA assassination bid which resulted in the death of nine people in a fish and chip shop.
A few months later he was jailed for 16 years after becoming the first person in Northern Ireland to be convicted of directing terrorism. But, after just three years he was back on the streets, having been released under the Good Friday agreement.
He used his freedom to launch a bid to seize total control of the UDA. It failed spectacularly and saw him expelled from the cause, kickstarting a bitter and bloody feud.
The mainstream UDA launched a ruthless vendetta against Adair. A pipe bomb was thrown at his house, there was an assassination attempt as he dropped his kids
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