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PETE JENSON: Marseille is a footballer who plays for football, without a boss, and almost without a president; the former president resigned in midweek but there were threats of legal action against the ultras. And all this as Marseille faces a PSG side that has had their worst start to a league season since the Qataris took over in 2011 seeming more like a football team than they have at any other time in the period.

The Oscars are coming, and you know what that means: rich celebrities dripping in diamonds will be promoting their wokening to the world. It's only six weeks before the Academy of Hollywood dispensing Hollywood's most coveted gongs. We'll all be required to endure another round of luvvies in right-on debates in six weeks. That's what the Oscars have become in recent years - a soap box for politically correct preening. This glitzy awards have shifted from being a celebration of movie achievement to a three-hour finger waging at the television audience over everything from climate change to racial justice and sexual equality. 'Watching the Oscars is now like 'three hours of being told to eat your vegetables,' as Toby Muresianu of the United States put it.

Fans of Apple's reported interest in buying Manchester United predictably favorable reception by Red Devils fans, who think of the new owners' tenure as a 17-year root canal. 'There's euphoria within the United fan base right now,' said GBN, a long-serving contributor and a long-time supporter.' Since buying the club in 2005, the American Glazer family has been chastised, incompetent, and unwilling to develop a team that has traditionally been ranked as one of Europe's best.