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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care. The Georgia peanut farmer served one turbulent term in the White House before building a reputation as a global humanitarian and champion of democracy. He defeated President Gerald Ford in 1976 promising to restore trust in government but lost to Ronald Reagan four years later amid soaring inflation, gas station lines and the Iran hostage crisis. He and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, then formed The Carter Center, and he earned a Nobel Peace Prize while making himself the most active and internationally engaged of former presidents. The Carter Center said the former president died Sunday afternoon in Plains, Georgia.

ANNAPOLIS — The 2024 high school football seasons for Fort Hill and Northern will finish just how they started. The Sentinels and Huskies met in Week 1, a 42-7 Fort Hill win in early September that feels like ages ago. Now 13 weeks later, they’ll square off for all the marbles with the Class 1A state championship on the line at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Kickoff between eighth-seeded Fort Hill (6-7) and seventh-seeded Northern (8-5) is scheduled for noon. “Being able to play for a state championship is the goal that we set every year,” Fort Hill head coach Zack Alkire said. “To reach that goal is very important for us. It’s been a goal as long as I’ve ever been around Fort Hill, whether we were winning state championships or not. I’m hopeful that we’re able to finish the job this weekend and bring home the title. “Really happy for coach (Phil) Carr and his program. One of the great guys in this area in the sports landscape locally. Really looking forward to the matchup.” Fort Hill is making its 10th championship game appearance in 11 seasons and is playing for a state-record-tying fourth consecutive title. The Sentinels have eight state crowns in the last 10 years and 10 overall. Fort Hill has an 11-2 record on the field, but five forfeits dealt the Sentinels the No. 8 seed in the state playoffs, forcing the team to hit the road. The Sentinels came back in the second half in each of their prior two games, edging Perryville, 24-21, in the semis and dispatching top-seeded Cambridge-South Dorchester, 30-12, in the quarters. Fort Hill won’t be the only road warrior on the field Saturday. Northern upset Mountain Ridge, 23-13, on the road in the West Region co-finals and proceeded to rout second-seeded Boonsboro, 49-0, in a road quarterfinal mud bowl and down SEED School, 41-27, in Baltimore to get to Annapolis. The championship appearance is Northern’s first in school history, another notch on the belt in the illustrious career of coach Carr, who has a 146-132 record in 28 seasons with the Huskies. “It’s a huge opportunity for our kids and our community,” Carr said. “The kids are just so excited. I’m excited myself. I’ve always wanted to get to play for a championship. It took a long time to get there, but we made it.” Northern’s Cinderella run also made it four straight seasons in which two Western Maryland squads will play for the Class 1A title. Fort Hill defeated Mountain Ridge, 45-21, 16-14 and 51-31, the prior three finals under coach Alkire. “Very prideful of our community and our region,” Alkire said. “Playing four years in a row against someone from the region is a big deal. Hopefully that translates to more respect for Western Maryland schools, and we can get more coaches out here to take a look at our kids. “There are a number of talented kids that go virtually untouched out here.” While Fort Hill will have the obvious advantage in championship game experience — a vital tool to calm the nerves in a stadium atmosphere — only 16 Sentinels are back from last year’s team and only a handful played. Northern will be playing with house money, as few expected the Huskies to get this far, let alone win the title. Fort Hill is 11-0 against Northern all-time, winning all 11 by double digits. Asked how Carr thinks his players will react playing in a stadium that seats more than 30,000 for the first time, he said: “We don’t know for sure. Our guys have played enough football, but you’re going to walk into a lot bigger environment in a stadium. It might take us a couple plays or a drive to get comfortable.” While Garrett County schools were closed Thursday due to blizzard conditions in the region, the Huskies were able to practice inside. Per Allegany County rules, Fort Hill wasn’t allowed to practice at all when school was called off. Still, Fort Hill is a heavy favorite after its five-touchdown win in Week 1, though neither coach put too much stock in that game. Fort Hill’s offensive line has improved immensely since that game, Carr said, and Northern took off after falling to 2-3, changing its defensive front and its personnel. Above all else, the Huskies are brimming with confidence, something that wasn’t the case after Northern fell to 3-5 before rattling off five consecutive wins to play for the championship. “Most of our guys are full strength and healthy, and we didn’t have that in Week 1,” Carr said. “We know that’s a great team, a great tradition. Coach Alkire has done a great job in his years there, he has a great staff and they have some talented players. “A lot of it’s just confidence. We’ve gained all this confidence in these playoff wins. The changes we made, getting guys in the right place after that Hampshire game (a 37-15 loss). Since that time, we’ve played pretty well. “With that said, we’re going to have to play perfect football.” The key for both teams will be stopping the run. Fort Hill senior Jabril Daniels eclipsed the 2,000-yard mark last week and is up to 2,027 yards and 31 total touchdowns on 209 carries (9.7 yards per carry). With 77 touchdowns, Daniels is one touchdown away from entering the top 10 in Maryland all time (Ben Tate, Decatur/Snow Hill), and his 4,445 rushing yards are 27th in state history. Daniels is no stranger to the bright lights. On Navy’s field one year ago, the senior rushed for nearly 300 yards and five touchdowns in the first half against Mountain Ridge, setting a championship game rushing record for a half. Braelyn Younger is second on the Sentinels with 552 yards and nine touchdowns on 52 carries, Tristan Ross has 460 yards and four total scores, and Carson Bender has 537 yards of total offense and 12 total touchdowns. It has used a two-quarterback system: Nash Cassell when under center and Noah House in spread formations. The duo have combined for 533 yards, 10 touchdowns and four interceptions. Fort Hill’s line struggled to produce holes against Perryville, but the Huskies won’t have the same kind of athleticism and strength that gave the Sentinels trouble. Northern may have to hope for special teams touchdowns and turnovers to spark its offense, both of which have come in bunches this season. The Huskies have a plus-18 turnover margin thanks to their 29 takeaways. Nine different Northern players both have at least one interception and one fumble recovery. Robert Deatelhauser has three interceptions for touchdowns and Cole Folk has done so twice off fumbles, part of Northern’s nine defensive scores this season. Fort Hill has been turnover prone the last two weeks with three lost fumbles against Cambridge and two at Perryville. “They’ve been a little sloppy with turnovers the last couple games,” Carr said. “We have to force them into turnovers and penalties. We just have to not make things easy for them. “Week 1, we had them in third-and-longs, not only did they get first downs, they scored touchdowns. We need to make them drive the football and eat clock.” Northern’s leading tackler is senior Nick Riley with 114 stops. Both teams have shown dynamic return games this season. Tristan Ross returned a kickoff 77 yards for a touchdown at Perryville last week, one of Fort Hill’s four special teams scores this year. Gamil Daniels has a pair of punt returns for touchdowns, and Chase Lamb has the other. Northern’s Luke Ross is a dynamic threat with nearly 700 return yards and two touchdowns. Ross enters this afternoon with 2,050 all-purpose yards and 23 total touchdowns. On the ground, the senior has amassed 1,091 yards and 20 touchdowns on 125 totes. He’s joined in the backfield by Evan Graham (153 carries, 745 yards, eight TDs) and Caleb Hinebaugh (76 carries, 491 yards, six TDs). Fort Hill’s defense, led by Nick Willison (172 tackles) and Mason Bennett (100 tackles) up front and House (99 tackles) and Daniels (98) at backer, has been impossible to run on over the past eight weeks. The Sentinels have allowed only 194 rushing yards over that span, an average of 24 a game. “If you stop the run, I feel really good about our chances,” Alkire said. “They have three really good running backs that do really good things with the ball. Big up front, move people off the ball.” Northern will have to get its passing game involved if Fort Hill does go Cover-0 and play man-to-man coverage with no safeties, which it’s done with regularity over the past three seasons. The Huskies’ Liam Stewart is 38 for 60 through the air for 590 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions. The junior also has 302 rushing yards and eight more scores. As for the kicking game, both teams have the ability to make field goals from 40-plus. Fort Hill’s Bobby Brauer is 4 of 5 on kicks with a long of 43, and he’s converted 58 of 63 extra points. Northern’s Wally Brands is 4 for 6 with a long of 47. He’s 34 for 42 on PATs. As in any rematch, both coaching staffs are expected to empty the playbook with anything from new formations to trick plays. With an enrollment just north of 400, Northern is one of the smallest schools in state history to advance to the championship game, up there with Snow Hill and Valley in the early years of the playoffs. For Fort Hill, Saturday is just another opportunity to exhibit its championship pedigree. The Sentinels have displayed that on the road all postseason and can finish the job today. “They’ve shown a lot of resilience, that championship mentality we preach to them all the time,” Alkire said. “The last couple weeks, falling behind, being able to maintain their composure and coming back to get those victories. It’s very impressive.”

Jimmy Carter death – updates: Trump pays tribute after former president’s death aged 100

Trade clothes for cash at new North Vancouver vintage shopBy BILL BARROW, Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Defying expectations Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” ‘Country come to town’ Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” A ‘leader of conscience’ on race and class Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn was Carter’s closest advisor Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Reevaluating his legacy Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. Pilgrimages to Plains The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.

Clinical Research Organization Global Template Market Set For 9.8% Growth, Reaching $86.33 Billion By 2028Maharashtra BJP now has such bench strength that allies will get less accommodation than earlier Alliance achieving govt formation is what’s important not who becomes CM – this is a common statement Mahayuti and MVA netas would give. Until this weekend. With the results in, obviously only Mahayuti seniors continued to be chased by the question, Kaun banega CM ? Now they sang a new chorus: Party will decide. Very politic and la di da. But the cold, hard fact is quite different: Numbers will decide. BJP is so far ahead of its allies, so overwhelming is its strike rate, that anything but a BJP CM makes little sense. In his last CM stint, Devendra Fadnavis became only the second Maharashtra CM ever to complete a full five-year term. That’s how volatile politics is in this state. But one volatility that should be safely counted out is rotational CMship. Actually that ship may have sunk itself across the board. Congress’s attempt to manage its internal battles via this stratagem floundered in Chhattisgarh. BJP has had poor experiences with allies keeping their word on it in UP and Karnataka. Sure, the Eknath Shinde CM candidacy also has some legs. He has stolen the march from Uddhav as far as the weighty Balasaheb legacy is concerned. His Maratha-ness and Ladki Bahin push are also strong cards. But again, Shinde Sena’s 57 seats (and NCP’s 41) pale in comparison to BJP’s 132. Just 13 more and BJP could have formed a govt on its own. Back in 2019, Uddhav ditched the BJP alliance because it wouldn’t make him, the junior partner, the CM. In 2022, Shinde was the junior partner that BJP did accept as CM. Fadnavis accepted deputy CMship, as also another deputy CMship for Ajit Pawar. But that was the chessboard then . BJP’s dependence on Sena for govt formation is near zero now.

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NoneMOVE over Christophe Nkunku, here comes Johnny Kenny. And there's calls for Celtic 's current strikeforce to make some room too. 4 Johnny Kenny scored his side's third on the night and his fifth of the Conference League campaign Credit: Getty 4 Darragh Burns joined Kenny to celebrate the vital win Credit: Getty 4 Celtic fans now want the striker to head back to Parkhead Credit: Getty Hoops fans are calling for the Shamrock Rovers striker to get his chance in their Hoops after he smashed a stunning double to send his Irish side into the Conference League knockout round. Kenny was a £140,000 signing from Sligo Rovers almost three years ago but has barely featured at Parkhead. Instead he's been loaned out to Queen 's Park for six months and then longer term to the League of Ireland and Shamrock Rovers' similar strips. He's hit 18 goals this year and added his fifth in five European games in a 3-0 win over Banja Luka that booked a spot in the next stage. Read More Celtic stories NO BIG DEAL Schmeichel's blunt two-word reply when asked about extending his Hoops deal JOB TALK My Celtic summit with Brendan Rodgers in Zagreb has inspired me to become a boss That tally has placed him on a par with Celtic 's £90m man Nkunku who the Blues recruited from RB Leipzig . Now Celtiuc fans want to see their bargain signing brought back for a second chance at stardom in Scotland . One fan said: "Hopefully he can take this form to Celtic." Another agreed: " We have got to give him a chance and see what he can do. He deserves it." Most read in Football GER KIDDING Tottenham fans blast ex-Spurs star as he's spotted wildly celebrating Gers goal Rangers 1 Spurs 1 Gers left ruing Forster save after Kulusevski earns point for Postecolgou MAJOR CONCERN Key Rangers star is huge Celtic injury doubt after limping out of Spurs clash TURN OFF Rangers v Spurs hit by broadcasting issue as fuming fans left UNABLE to watch A third added: "Bring him home ." Paul Heaton reveals co-singer is a Celtic fan Another Hoops fan noted: "The wee man scoring a goal reminiscent of a Henrick goal." A fifth said: "Surely he’ll be back in Jan to add to the squad?" His latest performance has made Europe sit up and take notice. Shamrock are sixth in the Conference League phase, with the likes of Fiorentina and Chelsea - their next opponents - to above them. The win books a guaranteed spot in the knock-outs, with the prospect of a parachute to the last 16 still within grasp. More fans commented: "Shamrock Rovers continue undefeated in Conference League proper after five games. " Johnny Kenny is joint top scorer and Chelsea away next week. This is what Christmas is all about." Another added: "Another €400k in the European pot for Stephen Bradley’s men who are doing special things in Europe this season. A Johnny Kenny masterclass, two goals and an assist. Read more on the Scottish Sun WARMING UP Scots set for 21C swing as temperature rise to bring an end to sub zero freeze HOT BUY Shoppers race to Primark for fleecy £14 hoodie will keep you cosy on frosty days "Rovers head into the last group game against Chelsea sitting sixth in the Conference league table. Special moments for our league and country!" Next up for Stephen Bradley's side is the Stamford Bridge big one - and a tussle between the two top scorers in the competition - £89,860,000 apart. 4 Christopher Nkunku is joint top scorer in the Conference League Credit: Getty Keep up to date with ALL t h e latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page