While John Terry is a fair shout for his performances this year, I would be willing to say that Laurent has stood out more than Gary Cahill. And it is not the first time either, Koscielny was snubbed last year for the likes of the same man Cahill as well as Vincent Kompany, despite Koscielny dominating both in interceptions, tackles, and duels won.
He dominates this season as well yet somehow misses out once again. In a way it sums up Arsenal’s season really; close but no cigar.
- How did this Arsenal star not make the PFA Team of the Year? Arsenal-Mania.com, April 28, 2017.
3. SpaceX pulled off another launch of supplies to the International Space Station on Saturday, but its revolutionary attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean barge fared less well.
The company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said the first-stage of the unmanned Falcon rocket made it to the platform floating a couple hundred miles off Florida’s northeastern coast. But the booster came down too hard and broke apart, he said.
“Close, but no cigar this time,” Musk said via Twitter. He said it bodes well for the future, though.
- Rocket landing at sea ‘close, but no cigar’, AP, January 10, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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