Ankara Days of Bruce Djite
There aren’t many football clubs around the world who start off their season by sacrificing an animal.
In this case, a goat was the specific species, taken down to the training ground ahead of the first home match of the campaign.
“I knew I was in Turkey when they sacrificed a goat before the start of the season. I didn’t watch it.
“We had our pre-match meal and I’m like ‘No, I’ll get ready for the game’.”
For Australian striker Bruce Djite, it’s one of the many cultural subtleties that have taken getting used to in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.
(500) days of Summer
"This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th.
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
"In 1974 Henry Kissinger, then America's secretary of state, told the first world food conference in Rome that no child would go to bed hungry within ten years. Just over 35 years later, in the week of another United food summit in Rome, 1 billion people will go to bed hungry." The Economist