The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)

Second child for Storey

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Fourteen-time Paralympic champion Sarah Storey has announced she is expecting her second child.

The 39-year-old cyclist won three Paralympic golds for Great Britain at last September’s Rio Games, three years after the birth of daughter Louisa.

And now Storey and her husband Barney, a Paralympic gold medal winner himself, have announced a further family member is due later this year.

Storey is planning to ride on to her eighth Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020. Her first Paralympic­s was Barcelona 1992 as a 14-year-old swimmer.

Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha claims his team’s toothless Old Firm display left him feeling ashamed.

The Ibrox manager was given his first taste of the Glasgow derby from the dugout on Sunday against Celtic in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

Gers rarely threatened Brendan Rodgers’ team and went down tamely to a 2-0 Hampden defeat.

The teams meet again in the Premiershi­p on Saturday and Caixinha wants his men to show more when the Hoops arrive at Ibrox.

He said: “It does worry me a little the aggression was missing on Sunday. I wanted it from the very beginning.

“We have a principle and this week I am going to work on it a lot. We call it the 10 second principle.

“If you start with the ball or the opponents starts with it then we need to create some sort of danger within the 10 seconds.

“The ball must be closer to the opponent’s goal or if the ball starts with the opponent then we must recover the ball within the 10 seconds.

“Did you see that in the last match? I don’t think so.

“We need to be angry about that and because it is an Old Firm game we need to feel shame about it because we didn’t perform.

“We didn’t have the passion this club is giving to us. After the match we went to the player of the year dinner and I was feeling ashamed because I couldn’t give the supporters the same passion as I was receiving there.

“I want my team to have a different sort of commitment, to have a different level of concentrat­ion and a different competitiv­e attitude.

“We prepare the team to be aggressive and we want the team to be aggressive in a good way for the whole game, we can’t even have 45 seconds where we are not focused.

“There may be a throwin that maybe means nothing but for us to get the momentum in the game we can’t allow the other team into the game. Maybe the doubts are coming in moments like that and that is definitely what I don’t want.”

Caixinha reckons he got his game plan right at the national stadium

“We need to be angry – because it is an Old Firm game we need to feel shame”

– but blamed his players for failing to carry out his instructio­ns.

Now he has warned them to stick to his blueprint this weekend.

“I used the day off on Monday to look at the game and we analysed the game on Tuesday with the players,” he added. “We came to the conclusion that normally we have two ways of seeing one plan.

“If it is a bad plan and everybody believes in it and tries to execute it then maybe it can become a good plan.

“When it is a brilliant plan but we don’t execute it then we will never know it, so what we expect now is to have a good plan with good execution.

“When we analysed the game, in some moments some players were acting in the right direction and other players were not doing the same thing at the same time.

“We have to have co-ordination about the ideas so everybody acts at the same time in the same direction.”

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