As a group and as individuals, this is a Liverpool squad filled with players who have faced setbacks. And that has only made them stronger according to Trent Alexander-Arnold, who says this group are using their past disappointments to push themselves to greater heights.

The players we have in our side have all had failures before, weve all had setbacks, he told Premier League Productions ahead of Sundays match against Manchester United. Weve really bounced back from there and got to where we are now and where we are as a team.

The biggest example of that is probably the fact that we lost the Champions League final the season before and were able to use that as motivation to get back there and win it the next season. Its something a lot of teams arent capable of, but weve showed that we are.

If their response to finishing runners-up in Europe was to make it to a second consecutive finaland winthen one certainly wouldnt bet against them now using last seasons nearly-there result in the league, where they earned 97 points and finished second, as motivation.

Certainly the early returns look positive on that front, with Alexander-Arnold and the Reds the only perfect side two months into the season. Eight games, eight wins, an eight point cushion at the top of the tableand with another chance to prove themselves on Sunday.

The Man United-Liverpool game is always massive, he added. Its one of the biggest games of the seasonand theyre a top side as well. Its always going to be a big game and a big occasion.

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Andreas Pereira will look to use the hurt of Manchester Uniteds wretched start as a catalyst to a season-changing victory against table-topping rivals Liverpool.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaers side have had a lot of soul-searching to do over the international break after the shock loss at embattled Newcastle left them just two points off the Premier League relegation zone.

Liverpool are looking to compound United s worst start in 30 years on Sunday, when Jurgen Klopp s men will aim for a record-equalling 18th successive top-flight victory.

All eyes will be on Old Trafford as the old foes do battle and Pereira believes this is the perfect match.

We know the fans are hurting, the 23-year-old midfielder said. The players and everyone at the club, here at the training ground, hurts.

Me, even more, because Im a Manchester United fan and a player and I am here at the Aon Training Complex every day. It hurts not getting the results.

Everybody is doing their best to get it turned around and I am sure it will happen.

Everyone is working hard, even harder, and, sooner or later, when everyone is working hard, things get back to good ways.

Its a perfect game against Liverpool, a perfect derby, and we have to build up for it.

Pereira was born in Belgium and plays for Brazil, but he was reared in the United academy and knows how important beating Liverpool is for everyone connected to the club.

I think you can compare it with Boca Juniors-River Plate, Santos-Corinthians, Flamengo-Fluminense, he told United Review .

Its one of the biggest derbies like El Clasico - Real Madrid versus Barcelona - and one of the biggest games, not only in England but in the world.

Everyone will be watching and its most important for us, and for the fans.

I always watched these games at home with my dad and my family. You know, I was always very curious and supporting United.

I think it means a lot to us. Its one of the most important games of the year - its the derby and we absolutely want to win this game.

We will do absolutely everything to win it. I know were not living the best moment right now, and were not getting results, but I think its a derby and it is always a different game.

Absolutely, we want to win it - everyone at the club, everyone in the team and the staff.

We all want to do everything to win the game and it can be a nice bounce back and provide a nice lift for us to start getting results.

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Today is a Motivation vs Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) day.

All day, I have been sitting wrestling with myself.

I need to produce articles for my website. I have a pile of things that I must write, organise and complete by certain days. I have planned it all out, made notes and rough drafts. All the preparation has been done all I need to do is sit and write.

For some reason, even though I love to write and it comes naturally to me, I cant seem to muster up enough enthusiasm to start.

There is nothing different about today. Nothing different about my routine. So why does it feel like my brain has been surrounded by a think fog? Why dont I feel the usual motivation to get my work done? Why dont I feel like making food, and just want to snack? Why am I feeling tired even though I have had my usual amount of rest? Why am I trying to resist grabbing the duvet, curling up on the sofa and watching films all afternoon? Why does nothing seem to light that rocket fuel and get me going?

Why? Well, its October. Thats why.

This is the start of it. This is the start of my SAD days.

For those who suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), I am sure that you are nodding along in solidarity with me.

For those who dont suffer from SAD, I wouldnt blame you for thinking that its all just a case of the Winter Blues, and that I just need to, perhaps, take it slower today, then I will be back to my full speed tomorrow.

Thats the normal advice that folk give to people having a rough day, and its lovely and supportive.

Its just that it doesnt work when you are suffering from SAD.

SAD is a bit like having brain fog that affects your whole body not just your mind. Your body slows down like a tortoise and you struggle to stay alert during the day. Its like you are fighting the need to hibernate.

SAD is a regular occurrence. Every year, around the same time, you will first feel the panic of the nights getting darker. You have this feeling that you must make every day count.

You are operating on full speed, then one day, you feel like someone has switched your engine off, and about to store you in the garage for the next few months.

Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, feels like it takes so much effort and energy. You feel like crying for no reason and crave carbs like your life depends on them.

You feel like your life is shutting down around you and theres nothing you can do to stop it.

To be honest, I could live perfectly happy with my SAD if I could just go into hibernation every October through to February.

Pass me the duvet, the remote and the carbs and I will see you when the days begin to lengthen again!

Lovely as it may sound, its not that simple!

People who suffer from SAD still have to carry out their daily tasks as they would in the summer months. Their lives dont change. They still have the same responsibilities to take care of. They just have to find a way to do it while feeling less than 50% switched on.

With this in mind, I have decided to share my own top ways to stay motivated while suffering from SAD.

If you know that you suffer from SAD, then make sure you are prepared for days when you really dont feel like doing very much.

Organise your work into smaller projects or more manageable chunks. This will take away the feeling that you are trying to climb a mountain with a rope tied around your waist, pulling you back down to base camp!

Having smaller tasks to face each day, that you can tick off as you complete them, will make it easier for you to start them and motivate you to complete them.

You can always add more tasks once you have completed the initial ones on the list.

If you really cant face a task, or find it hard to get started in the first place, then try using a timer.

Set your timer to go off in 5 minutes and try to keep you focus on the task at hand for all of these minutes. When the timer goes off, if you want, you can take a couple of minutes off, before setting the timer to go off in 10 minutes. Again, take a couple of minutes at the end of this block of time, if you wish.

Keep going until you can set your timer for 25 minutes, with 5 minutes break in between. This is known as the Pomodoro Technique, devised by Francesco Cirillo.

Before you know it, you have completed your task without too much of a struggle.

I, personally, use this method when I have days that I am really struggling. I have aPomodoro appon my phone and it helps me to time my 25 minute sessions, my 5 minute breaks and keeps track of the work that I have managed to complete in a day. Its a great motivational tool.

Being made accountable will always help you to work harder towards a goal.

Find a friend or colleague who is happy to join you in sharing your plans and goals. Then make regular dates to catch up and discuss these plans with each other.

Did you achieve what you set out to do that week? What did you find difficult? How did you overcome problems? What can you do in the week ahead to focus more and complete your goals?

The practice is not there to make you feel bad or to shame you if you didnt complete everything its there for moral support and to help motivate you (and your friend!).

Having that human contact and weekly check-in (or however often you want to do this) will help you break down the tasks. You will feel more in control, and ultimately, feel that you are succeeding in accomplishing your tasks.

Theres no doubt that living with SAD is challenging, but by making little changes within your daily routine, you can stay in control and make the winter months pass by more smoothly.

Take action and dont let SAD hold you back living your life.

Note:Sometimes SAD or having the Winter Blues can have similar symptoms to depression. Never ignore these symptoms and dont suffer alone. If you think that you suffer from the symptoms of SAD or feel depressed in any way, then take the time to chat it over with your health professional. They will be able to give you a proper diagnosis and provide you with the help, support and advice that you need to help you through this challenging time. Remember they understand and want to chat with you.

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Fall semester is a good time to revisit a common question that can trouble many parents of children in 6th or 7th grade: Why has our young adolescent, who worked hard and achieved well during elementary school, started to slack off in middle school, and become less dedicated todoing school work and less caring about performance?And what might we do to help halt faltering effort and falling grades?

What follows examines four factors that can come into play when this middle school motivation loss occurs:

In each case, countermeasures parents might want to take are suggested.

Disorganization of Coping

To begin, it can help if parents appreciate the magnitude of change required of students transitioning into middle school, where new organizational demands can take a lot of getting used to.

Institutionally, secondary school is not elementary school. Elementary school was much smaller and sheltered and simpler to navigate than middle school. For example, while athletics in elementary school was mostly recreational and fun for all, athletics in secondary school is more seriously and selectively competitivefor trying out, for getting playing time, for the importance of winning.Then there is larger school size, organizational complexity, increased expectation for student responsibility, and the demands of multiple teachers who are simultaneously giving more cumulative homework. These all demand a major adjustment. It is not uncommon for young people to exhibit more disorganization during this changing time before learning to catch educational hold.

In response, parents can coach coping with this increased complexity by helping the young person keep a schedule or calendar for planning control so that:

Daily discussion of short- and long-term demands is worth having.

Distractibility of Attention

Socially,elementary school is still primarily a culture of childhood, with most students family-centered and focused on staying closely attached to parents. Middle school is a culture of early adolescence. By this age, the separation from childhood and parents has begunyoung people starting to push against, pull away, and get around parental authority for freedom to experiment with more individuality and to assert more independence. Now some traditional focus can be lost.

At this juncture, belonging to a family of friends who are all changing in a similar way is vitally important. However, finding and fitting into a peer group is complicated by social insecurity and self-consciousness over puberty. Changing bodily shape can cause one to feel more out of control and affect social image and treatment received. Now concerns about physical appearance and social belonging can become an overriding priority, sometimes at the expense of academic focus.

Parents need to thread the needle between being empathetic about the more complicated physical and social experiences and being insistent that school work still needs to be attended to and accomplished. Readiness to face a new day at school now has three challenging components that parents need to be sensitive to staying physically, socially, and academically prepared for the demands at hand.

Experiencing Social Cruelty

In one of my earlier books, Why Good Kids Act Cruel (2010), I described why and how social meanness between students can increase in middle school as young people urgently vie with each other to establish social standing and ensure social belonging. Five common forms that social cruelty takes are teasing (putting down), exclusion (keeping out), rumoring (gossipingabout), bullying (threatening), and ganging up (out-numbering.)

When any of these behaviors significantly comes a young persons way, the school experience becomes emotionally dangerous, and now concerns for personal safety can override academic focus. In addition, what parents may notice is more reluctance getting ready for school and more sadness when returning home.

Since the code of the schoolyard (dont tell on peers), and the principle of independence (handle your troubles yourself) can cause a student not to tell parents when being hurtfully treated, it can be helpful for them to declare at the outset of 6th grade that they know how social going at middle school can become rougher in the five ways described. They are in the know, and they would wish to be told if any of these behaviors are repeatedly directed at their adolescentso they can provide emotional support and some coaching advice for how to respond to and reduce these painful experiences.

Resistance to Authority

When a young person starts separating from childhood and parents in service of asserting more independence, they can become more resistant to parental authority through using delay, argument, refusal, ignoring, and lying to get around what they have been told to do.

This resistance can carry over to middle school, particularly about homework that teaching authorities increasingly assign. One of the major causes of lowering grades in middle school is not doing homework and being graded down accordingly. The resistant young person may have dishonestlyreported no homework tonight! when there was, may not have brought assignments home, may not have finished them completely, or may not have turned them in.

The best way to discourage this resistance is not acting emotionally upset or offering rewards for compliance or threatening punishment for noncompliance, but by providing calm, steadfast supervision. If you cant regularly bring the homework home, if you cant thoroughly complete it, if you cant manage to turn it in, we will provide the necessary oversight to help you get these tasks done.

Middle school is a huge transition and its easy for able students to academically underperform as, for a developmental while, their primary concerns are directed elsewhere. In these cases, parents can effectively provide organizing, focusing, strategizing, andsupervisory support.

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Kayce Hurd of Marshall knows what its like to lose, both on and off the field, but the Mavericks senior defensive lineman is motivated by those losses, and determined to use lessons learned from them to help earn him and his team some wins.

For Hurd, a dream was born at a young age.

I remember when my nana told me, Dont give up on your dreams, and I told her that I want to go to the NFL and that I want to play on Sunday night, Hurd recalls. She said OK, and when she was on her death bed, I promised her, I will go to the NFL and will stop at nothing.

Despite experiencing hardships, Hurd has shown no signs of stopping.

In a big way, whats actually motivated us is all the stuff weve been through, with the 0-3 start and losing a player, especially for me and James (Washington), that was a big motivation for us. So now were playing for our fallen brother, an angel.

Hurd said he also draws motivation from his family.

They always come to my games, he said. They dont care how far it is. It can be in New Orleans, they dont care. As long as I see them and they see me, everything is cool.

Tonight, his family will likely be in Jacksonville to see Hurd and the Mavericks take on the Indians.

Weve just got to focus on our team, focus on whats happening on our end, he said.

Hes playing at a level this year that he hasnt played in the past, Marshall athletic director and head football coach Jake Griedl said of Hurd. Hes brutally strong. He plays with an intensity thats hard to match. Then his work ethic over the last year has really springboarded him into a leadership role. Hes kind of the anchor of our D-line, especially in the interior.

When Kayce speaks, everybody listens and when Kayce plays, everybody notices, Griedl continued. Im glad we dont have to block him.

Hurd has three college offers on the table but is in no rush to make a decision on what school to attend.

I havent decided what college I want to go to, he said. Im waiting for more opportunities to come up.

Hes a great kid, Griedl added. Hes one of those kids who I think will be a late signee for a college and will have a really successful collegiate career and with his work ethic, will be a very successful individual down the road.

Perhaps that success will one day come on the football field on Sunday nights.

Kickoff for tonights game between Marshall and Jacksonville is slated for 7:30 p.m. at the newly renovated Tomato Bowl in Jacksonville. Tickets will be on sale today at the Y.A. Tittle Athletic Fieldhouse ticket window from 7 a.m. until noon. Ticket prices are $6 for adults and $3 for students. All tickets at the gate will cost $8.

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Appearing on CNN's "New Day" early Sunday morning, contributor April Ryan said that recent polling showing the public wants Donald Trump impeached is a sign that his old tricks are no longer working.

Speaking with host Victor Blackwell, Ryan said that it is not good news that polling supporting impeachment is holding firm as the president tries to dismiss his bevy of latest scandals including his quid pro quo phone call with the president of Ukraine and his now-aborted plan to hold the G& at one of his golf resorts.

"It's not good news for the president at all," Ryan began. "These polls are not only staying steady, they are consistent with other polls. A slight majority of Americans want this impeachment inquiry. And when you get to things where we understand, you know, this is tit for tat and quid pro quo as [acting chief of staff Mick] Mulvaney was saying, people understand this."

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3. Lorenzo Alexander: There are no egos on this defense

Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander was on The Jim Rome Show this week to share his thoughts on Buffalos talented defense. Alexander thinks the sky is the limit for how much the group can grow, one reason is due to the selflessness.

There are no egos on this defense, Alexander said. Theres no guys that have to be the one to get the sack or have to be the one to make all the tackles.

As a 13-year vet, Alexander has been a part of plenty of defenses. What he likes about this group is the depth.

We have great depth, Alexander said. I mean we have a guy like Taron Johnson go out who is a great nickel for us and we have guys like Siran Neal, Dean Marlowe, Kevin Johnson kind of fill that role by committee. We have other examples at other positions as well, but that is really our calling card is just having great depth, great versatility. Guys can come in no matter who it is and get the job done.

The Miami Dolphins announced Wednesday that Ryan Fitzpatrick would start at quarterback, but the Bills will be ready to see Fitzpatrick and Josh Rosen.

At the end of the day you prepare for what their offensive scheme is, obviously each one has their own strengths," Alexander explained. With Rosen right now they are doing a lot of RPOs, getting the ball out of his hands quickly to build that confidence and get some positive yards. When you talk about Fitzpatrick who is a veteran in this league and has been around a long time, he has a great command of the offense already and theyre willing to do a little bit more drop back. Obviously he has something about him when he has his mojo dust about him where he can extend plays, make things happen, guys rally around him.

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The Michigan Wolverines football team is an eight-point underdog at Penn State on Saturday night in Happy Valley, and senior linebacker Josh Uche was informed of that fact this afternoon at Schembechler Hall while speaking with the media.

He didnt seem amused by it, however, and had no problem voicing his opinion of the media and the Vegas oddsmakers, and their takes on the Wolverines.

Were always the underdog, he began. Everyone wants to count us out, but thats ok because we love being the underdog.

Thats what we live for it and its what we do, but it only makes us work harder.

The Maize and Blue have won three games in a row following their blowout loss at Wisconsin on Sept. 21, and have seemingly fixed the defensive issues that plagued them in Madison.

After yielding 359 yards on the ground to an elite Badger rushing attack, U-M has since given up an average of 37.6 over its last three games.

Uche revealed that he felt much of the criticism following the Wisconsin loss was due to ignorance, and that it actually served as a bit of a wakeup call for the club.

You guys have been saying we cant stop the run and that were soft, he said this afternoon, referring to the media. Weve framed that in our minds and it has given us a lot of motivation to work harder.

Its that underdog mentality that has given us a new flame. I understand youre not all in the coaches offices and not watching film the way we watch film, so I understand why you would feel that way.

It gave us motivation to execute and do our jobs to a higher level. Executing [has been the difference in us stopping the run now].

It comes down to us doing our jobs at a higher level, and focusing on the little things and the small details. We want to maximize our focus on everything the coaches tell us to do.

This is what we live, breathe and do. I know you guys follow it too and are dedicated, but fans sometimes dont see and understand the schematics of everything, or whats always happening.

Its kind of funny, but can also be annoying it is what it is, because not everyone is a football coach or a 15-year vet of the game.

Theres no way for you guys to know certain things, so thats why there are misconceptions. Its only aspects we understand and that we cant let you guys know, because game plans would be ruined.

The Wisconsin game gave us new life, a new flame and new motivation, and we needed that, to be frank with you. We needed that motivation, and we thank you guys for it.

Uche was also asked about the stretch of games U-M has coming up at Penn State, Notre Dame, at Maryland, Michigan State, etc. and used the word legendary several times to describe what the Wolverines can potentially accomplish over the next month and a half.

The senior explained that the teams success all comes down to execution, and that if they operate to the best of their abilities, the results have a chance to be legendary.

Thats what I tell myself, the Miami native noted. If we execute, theres nobody in the country better than us and thats a fact.

I dont feel like anyone in the nation touches us if we do what the coaches ask of us and execute our game plans. I get myself hyped with the legendary stuff.

Id say the whole team has taken that approach as well.

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North Carolina coach Mack Brown met with reporters following Wednesday morning's practice to provide a final update before the Tar Heels travel to Virginia Tech on Saturday.

Here are the highlights from the conversation:

On his injured right eye

I was on the injury report, but I practiced. I did not miss; I stepped up. They kept staring at me and I finally had to tell them, It is red, you all are right. I said, At my age, only Sally cares; nobody else cares how I look. So, Im fine.

On this week's practices

Practice was really good. It was good yesterday, it was good today. The guys had a lot of energy. Were all excited to go to Blacksburg; its a great environment, its fun. Frank Beamer is a great friend of mine and I look forward to seeing Frank. Its fun to go somewhere where its full, and theyve got a good team and people are excited.

We told our team, we continue to be able to evaluate where we are and how much progress weve made, and hopefully, we took Georgia Tech to a different level with the open date and then we keep getting better as a team. We said its all out there for us, so its on us to play well and win on the road.

On discussing the big picture in the Coastal Division

It was Sunday, but we really havent talked about it much since. Every Sunday, you kind of recap where you are. We put up the records, we put up the standings in the Coastal and we put up the bowls that are out there for us to go to, and we took it down and said, Now youve got to play.

We talked to them today about, It shouldnt be pressure, it should be pleasure. We had a Joe Maddon quote; he said he puts that on his card, his starting lineup every game with the Cubs. I dont want them to feel pressure about the Coastal and I dont want them to feel pressure about a bowl; I want us to get good and if you practice really good every day, then you can be a great team at some point.

On what's going well and what needs to improve

I really like the way our front is playing on defense right now. They played really well at Tech and theyve really done well the last couple of practices here. The offensive lines still got to be more consistent. Yesterday they were OK, today they looked better, but lines of scrimmage is where you win games.

Weve got to get more out of our kicking game. Weve had one kickoff return of significance and we havent had anything out of our punt return, so weve got to do better in those areas.

Have coaches had to motivate players to get going this week?

They have done it themselves this week. We meet every morning at 6:30 before we practice, we have a team meeting. I saw them walk in today and I said, You look a little slow walking in; yesterday you were pumped up. Dont walk out there on that field slow, and stirred them up a little bit. Theyve practiced really well.

The Tuesday, I think, before Georgia Tech maybe Wednesday it was just OK offensively and right now, theyre doing well. Theyre getting after it and Im excited about seeing them play.

On how the players practiced during the open week

What we did is we really worked the young ones who, some of them havent played an any might have a play in four games and redshirt and help us; some might play the last six weeks. So, we pushed them to show us what theyve got. Youre not a freshman anymore, youve been here now some of you since June its time to grow up if you want to play this year.

The others, we really sprinted them a lot, we rant them a lot, but we didnt hit them. (Aaron) Crawfords and (Jason) Strowbridge and our backs, those type guys didnt get hit, so they should be really, really fresh this week.

Most coaches don't like looking beyond the next game. Why are you willing to talk about the big picture with your team?

In my, I think my entire career, but at least here late and all the time at Texas, I wanted to be really honest and fair with the guys. So, it is what it is. We can sit around and say, Next game, and all that but they know, they read, they hear. So, I wanted them to know, Here are facts, heres what you got.

Now, use it to motivate you, forget it, whatever you want with it. Weve got to beat Virginia Tech or this stuff doesnt work, but I think its foolish to sit around and act like its not important. It is important and what I told them this morning is that message of, Dont put pressure on yourself. If youre good enough, it works. If youre not, play your best and well go to the next game.

Does it help a team to talk about playing for a championship?

Absolutely, especially a team that hasnt been successful over the past two years. Theyre proud theyre really proud that in the middle of the season, theyre in the mix for something important. You think about, at least two classes on this team havent been to a bowl game, much less had a chance to be in the mix for a conference title at midseason.

On the kicking game

Its really funny. (Noah Ruggles) missed one yesterday so I let Jonathan Kim kick first today and both of them made it, so were just constantly looking. Ive always said kickers need to make them; I mean, thats important thing. Why kick? Thats one of the reasons when you cross the 50, if its close, I usually go for fourth downs because I cant stand missed kicks. Theyre such a momentum killer because youre trying to go, youre moving the ball, everything is great and then you shove it to the right and you lose everything.

Thats what I thought happened, I thought, our first drive at Georgia Tech after the half if you make the field goal, youre up to 20-0, and it sends a great message to Georgia Tech that its important coming out for the half and then you miss it and it gets them excited. Its really, really important that we make our kicks and improve our kicking.

The other thing is we only kicked one out of the end zone on kickoffs. Michael Rubinos got a sore leg, so hes not kicking as much. Modern day, you need to kick it in the end zone on kickoffs. Most people are, most people are starting at the 25 and you dont need to give a fast team like Virginia Tech a chance to return kickoffs.

With the kickoff guys and the extra-point, field goal guys, we check them every day up until the kickoff. We check them in pregame and we decide in the dressing room whos going to kick off and whos going to do extra point and field goals. It is competition every minute of every day.

Do you have someone on the sideline watching clock and helping manage game situations?

We do and a thing that I would like to see, and I really feel passionate about this, is were seeing enough missed calls in the NFL and in college across the country, I really believe we should say the guy upstairs, the replay official, has the right to overturn anything he sees.

They say, Well, thats not reviewable. Well, it should be if its going to lose the game and the team that plays the best doesnt get the chance to win. So, to me, how hard is to say, call down and say, Pick up the flag thats not a penalty. It helps us, it takes the human error out of it. To me, until we do that, were not going to get it right, but weve got guys looking at it, but normally I see it, and Ive got a pretty good feel of what happens.

If its in the far corner like the Dyami touchdown at Georgia Tech and you cant see it, you go upstairs immediately and say, Lets look at it, but we always have coaches watching the Jumbotron and theyll replay it and you know what to do.

What areas do you feel like officials miss the most?

The two biggest ones are holding and pass interference, those are the ones that come up all the time. The other one is fumble. Its just something that, to me, if a guy absolutely grabs a guy and pulls him down and the guy upstairs sees it and the guy is stumbling and he misses it, call downstairs and say, Thats pass interference, and throw the flag. Or, like the other night in the pro game, pick it up; pick it up, its not a flag, you missed it.

To me, then everybody is better off. The fight against it is that it takes too much time; it really doesnt. If its clear enough for him to say pick it up, then you dont have to take time. Just say, Pick it up.

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Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who is known for his heart-warming attitude and figure of speech, hailed current Test opener, Mayank Agarwal,as he responded to his wishes. Mayank Agarwal took to Twitter to wish Virender Sehwag on his birthday and hailed the former opener as a constant source of motivation. Responding to his wishes, Virender Sehwag heaped praises on Mayank Agarwal and said that he was in return motivating the former opener along with the fans for seizing the opportunity and putting runs on the board.

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Tributes and wishes poured infor former Indian opener Virender Sehwag as fans and former cricketers hailed the 'most dangerous batsman of all-era' on his birthday. The explosive opener from Delhi amassed 8586 runs in Tests and 8273 runs in ODIs during his international career that spanned for over two decades. If there was one Indian batsman who terrified the bowlers as long as he was in the crease, it was Virender Sehwag.Moments of Virender Sehwag scoring a triple ton in Pakistan where he stood tall with a 309-run knock at Multan in 2003 will be etched in the memories of die-hard cricket fans along with many other such moments that he has contributed to in his record-studded career. Members of the cricketing fraternity and netizens hailed Virender Sehwag as one of the most entertaining batsmen across all formats of the game, as they took to social media to wish their beloved 'Viru paaji'.

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