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A new Premier League season is upon us which means new hope and 10 months of quality soccer. However Cheap Men's Air Max TN Shoes Black Red Sale , certain teams looked like they still have not recovered fully from the holidays and could have used an extra week to prepare.


Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur opened the season Saturday but rather than a curtain raiser, it seemed at times to be a preseason -friendly. Those two were not the only ones looking a little rusty and sluggish as even the defending champions Chelsea seemed off their game in their draw with Swansea. Arsenal looked like their old selves from two seasons ago and not in a good way.


Spurs played in midweek in Germany, just three days before their Premiership match with United. These preseason friendlies may be tiring but they are vital commercially, being -lucrative and increasing exposure to overseas markets. But it raises a question whether commercial importance trumps actual match fitness.


While Spurs at least had the excuse of being tired, United did not. Their 1-0 victory hinged on an unfortunate own goal from Spurs defender Kyle Walker but otherwise their form was not impressive offensively and they appeared to lack ideas at times. But at least United came away with three points.


Arsenal's preseason favorites label evaporated instantly after a disastrous first game. Many have picked them as key challengers to Chelsea but they were not even close in losing 2-0 to West Ham. More galling for Arsenal was that both goals were the result of -errors by new keeper Petr Cech.


West Ham were the better team as they kept the ball well Air Max 97 Shockproof Coral Light Pink Women's Sale UK , handled Arsenal's pressure and came away with their first win at Arsenal in eight years. Arsenal had a few chances but were foiled by poor finishing while their tactics were predictable and contained by West Ham.


Basically, Arsenal were guilty of defensive lapses, conceding weak goals, and being unable to score despite lots of passing and attacking, problems that are all too familiar with Arsenal over the last few years.


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger wisely did not blame Cech but instead claimed his team had been "too nervous." Perhaps there was some stage fright since Arsenal were in the unfamiliar position of league favorites.


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Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of strangling a female impersonator in Houston in 2001 and then stealing the victim's car, a prisons official said.


Richard Masterson, 43, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. Masterson was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m. Men's Nike Air Max 97 Gold Yellow Black , the official said.


"Sending me to a better place. I am all right with this, you have to live and die by the choices that we make," Masterson was quoted by prisons officials as saying in his final statement.


The execution was the state's first this year and its 532nd since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.


There were 13 executions last year in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center Men's Nike Air Max 97 Ultra Triple Black UK , which monitors U.S. capital punishment.


Masterson's lawyers had launched appeals with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, saying his due process rights were violated and Texas presented false and misleading evidence regarding the death of Darin Honeycutt, 35, who went by the stage name of Brandi Houston.


The Supreme Court denied the motions on Wednesday.


Pope Francis had been hoping for a reprieve, Catholic World News reported this week.


Masterson's lawyers said there was no struggle Cheap Air Max 97 Undefeated Black UK , no murder and the death was accidental. They also questioned the credibility of the medical examiner who called the death a homicide.


"Petitioner has never denied that he restricted the complainant's airflow, but only that it occurred during a consensual sexual encounter," they said in a court filing.


Texas prosecutors said that after Masterson killed Honeycutt, he left the state in the victim's car, which was found days later in Georgia being driven by a nephew of Masterson.


After fleeing to Florida Air Max 97 OG Undftd Black Red Nike Shoes , Masterson met a man in a bar frequented by gay men. The two went to the man's apartment and Masterson placed him a headlock, trying to strangle him, prosecutors said.


The man passed out and when he regained consciousness, he found that his car and wallet were gone, authorities said.


A Florida police officer ran across the stolen car at a mobile home park Nike Air Max 97 OG Undftd White Red Restock , which led to Masterson's arrest.


At his trial in 2002, Masterson, who has a long criminal record, did not admit to the murder.


He took the stand and said he was a danger to society, daring jurors to sentence him to death Air Max 97 Silver Grey Red Men's Nike Shoes Sale UK , which they did.


BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Cambodia will be of great significance to Lancang-Mekong cooperation and China-Cambodia ties, a senior diplomat said on Thursday.


Li will attend the second Lancang-Mekong River Cooperation (LMC) leaders' meeting in Phnom Penh and pay an official visit to Cambodia from Jan.10 to 11.


Initiated in 2014, The Lancang-Mekong cooperation has grown rapidly with a gradually improved mechanism and a steady implementation of the fruits, Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou said at a press conference on Li's upcoming visit.


This year's meeting will focus on peace and sustainable development in the area. Leaders will review the progress and make plan for the future of Lancang-Mekong cooperation during the meeting Men's Nike Air Max 97 Black UK Sale , said Kong.


He said Li will announce China's initiatives and measures to deepen pragmatic cooperation and inject new impetus to the mechanism.


A series of files will be issued after the meeting, including a five-year action plan of the mechanism and a list of the second batch of coo.