Lioness

• Heineken® launches “Cheers To The Real Hardcore Fans”, a campaign that subverts expectations and redefines what it means to be a “real hardcore fan” in an effort to tackle the negative hardcore fan stereotypes to help make football more inclusive.
• The brand has been working to level the playing field by campaigning to make the sport a more positive and welcoming space to enjoy football together.
• The comedic and heartwarming film, inspired by real fans, shows the devotion people have to supporting the beautiful game.
• It’s showing you what real football fans look like and playing on people’s expectations of who a real ‘hardcore’ fan is.”
  Virgil van Dijk said; “The ‘Real Hardcore’ fans make me proud and appreciative as a player.

• The protagonist of Emily Perkins’ Lioness, she is instantly recognisable – and her story will engage readers who like to soak up a good psychological drama.
• It’s the sort of store that promotes “rituals involving candles and incense […] affirmations, cleanses, arranging your desk, changing the cushion covers”.
• Review: Lioness – Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury) From humble origins, she’s risen to a point where she and financier husband, property developer Trevor, have eyes on a central Sydney location.
• She toasts her gratitude to Trevor at a Christmas party – to which many of their friends do not show.
• And indulged, entitled Heathcote, “with his studied loucheness, as if the family money was acceptable as long as he wasted it”.

Flaccid sex and a bohemian siren

• I am a little dubious about novels that open with a sex scene, flaccid as it is – but soon realised its flaccidity is the point.
• Trevor is in his seventies and hides his Viagra; Therese is in her fifties and energetically manages her homewares empire.
• There is something of the unreliable narrator in Therese’s naivety, which at first seems implausible.
• But Claire, who lives in a downstairs apartment in their block (and tells Therese on the first day they meet of her fantasy sex dream with Trevor) offers a window into a more liberated, more bohemian, more alluring world.
• While Trevor and Therese talk domestic logistics, each glued to their screens, Claire is a “conversational minefield” who is like a siren to Therese.
• Therese knows only that Claire used to work on film sets, then in fundraising, and recently lost her job.

Becoming a lioness

• Therese’s transition from “catalogue model blandness” to, well, a lioness, is the real page-turner.
• When she speaks or even thinks honestly, from the heart, it feels like relief – for the reader as much as for Therese.
• There is a lioness tattoo on the abdomen of the mother of Therese’s personal assistant, whose manifesto could be Therese’s:
  I don’t care now what I say.
• She writes fiercely, lets the dialogue speak for itself and sprinkles the darkness with moments of biting, laugh-out-loud humour.
• Lioness may be a queasy read – but it’s an intoxicating one.

• In the emotive video Shevchenko speaks directly to the next generation of footballers, aged between 14-16 years old, at the Gatorade 5v5 tournament in Istanbul.
• He's a legend for Ukraine and a legend in world football.
• He said, "I used to manage the Ukrainian national team and I had great players, like Oleksandr Zinchenko and Andriy Yarmolenko, both world-class players.
• To minimise plastic waste on the ground, Gatorade supplied all players with 100% recycled bottles, Gatorade powders, and innovative seaweed pods containing Gatorade.

• Weighing approximately 2 pounds, the Lion Trek provides 150W of energy and can power everything from phones, laptops, lamps, televisions and even a mini refrigerator.
• With two USB ports in addition to the AC outlet, the Lion Trek can charge multiple items at a time.
• Just like other Lion Energy products, the Lion Trek produces no emissions, causes no damage to the environment and is completely safe to use indoors.
• Regardless of where they are on this path, Lion Energy has an American designed, engineered and support energy storage solution that can be used indoors or outdoors.