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West Bromwich Albion turned to Tony Pulis for his remarkable record of never being relegated – but seven years ago the matchday programme was rather less complimentary. As manager of Stoke, a piece from the 2007-08 season savaged his methods. 'Stoke train with cannons rescued from local medieval ruins,' read the article. 'Footballs are loaded into them and fired into the distance for [Mamady] Sidibe to head and [Ricardo] Fuller to run after. It’s a game plan that squeezes the life out of what used to be known as football.’ Tony Pulis was unveiled as West Bromwich Albion manager at The Hawthorns on Friday
West Brom then joked that

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What if Facebook spent $19 billion on something and most people never noticed? The social media giant dropped that mind-boggling amount Wednesday on WhatsApp, paying 19 times more than it did for Instagram (or the gross national product of some small countries, if you prefer) for a texting app that most folks in the United States had never even heard of. So what will this mean for the average Facebook user, or fans of WhatsApp, which lets users send unlimited messages for no more than 99 cents a year? In the hours after the deal became public, the prevailing opinion appeared to be, "Not much."
The move was met with predictable skepticism, much like the 2012

A: Instagram buyout and, really, almost any time a beloved tech startup gets gobbled up by one of the industry's big-money behemoths.

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(CNN) -- Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council arrived in Saudi Arabia Monday for a meeting to discuss transforming their six nations into a union similar to the European Union. The idea of integrating the GCC nations into one entity -- and replacing what exists now as simply a cooperative -- was first floated by Saudi Arabia in December. Monday's meeting in Riyadh will lay out the timetable for it. The GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. "The threats of all kinds require the hard works of the GCC countries to shift from a current formula of cooperation to a union formula acceptable to the six countries," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said last month.
In this climate comes the

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(CNN) -- When the draw for the third round of the FA Cup was made, one match particularly enticed -- Arsenal versus Tottenham. With Arsenal leading the Premier League and Tottenham rejuvenated under new manager Tim Sherwood, the encounter between the north London rivals indeed promised much. But in the end it was mostly one-way traffic and the Gunners prevailed 2-0 at home to advance in football's oldest knockout competition. The FA Cup is famous for its giant killings although on Saturday only one Premier League team lost to lower-division opposition, Aston Villa. And even then, Villa's 2-1 defeat to Sheffield United wasn't that big of a surprise since Villa boss Paul Lambert said this week the FA Cup was a distraction.


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assistant: Tottenham was unable to build on its 2-1 win at Manchester United in the league on Wednesday and was eliminated from a Cup competition for the second time in about two weeks.