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With his back to goal but eyes on the incoming cross, Gareth Bale connected with the ball while leaping in the air and sent a scissor-kick arcing into the top of the net. Real Madrid s Nacho lifts the trophy after winning the Champions League Final soccer match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. AP Photo stanley website Fusing athleticism and technique, it was a mesmerising sight to behold from the Real Madrid forward. Rarely has there been a finer goal in a European final and Bale followed it up with another to seal Madrids third successive Champions League title in a 3-1 victory over Liverpool on Saturday. Yet with blunders, injuries and intrigue unfolding throughout the night in Kievs Olympic Stadium, the wonder-goal just enriched this engrossing climax to the European club season and set the tone for weeks of uncertainty. A weeping Mohamed Salah was forced off in the first half with a shoulder injury that foiled Liverpools quest for a first continental success in 13 years and left the World Cup hopes of the Egyptian King in jeopardy. Real Madrid s Gareth Bale scores their second goal. Reuters Photo Tears also streamed down Loris Karius face after the Liverpool goalkeepers mistakes gifted two stanley water jug goals in the biggest match of his career. It might also be his last for Liverpool, which was denied a sixth European title by the aristocrats of the continent. When all they should have been thinking abou stanley cup t is celebrating, both Bale and Mnvo I have taken the decision to leave Atletico - Griezmann
Sweeping reforms to revive its battered image, including the appointment of vaso stanley an ombudsman, and a decision on former chief N Srinivasans future as ICC chairman will dominate the agenda when the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI holds its 85th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Monday. BCCI President Shashank Manohar will have to ensure the conflict of interest clause does not get diluted at the AGM in Mumbai on Monday. Kunal Patil stanley website /HT Photo Appointment of the ombudsman, or Ethics Officer, is one of the key changes that have been proposed in the BCCIs Memorandum of Rules and Regulations to be taken up at the AGM. With the soon-to-be-delivered recommendations over governance reforms by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee hanging over them, the Board members are all set to clear the way for this pathbreaking move which was announced by Shashank Manohar after being re-elected as the BCCI president last month. The ombudsman will be appointed to deal with the complaints of Conflict of Interest and any act of indiscipline or misconduct or violation of any of the rules and regulations of the Board by an administrator, as per the wordings of the clause that has been proposed to be taken up at the AGM. The AGM, which was postponed by more than a month from its normal late September date, is expected to put i stanley termohrnek n place strict compliance protocols to the conflict of interest regulations in the wake of the Supreme Courts cracking of the whip on this mat