Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says his side played great football in the first half of their 2-2 friendly draw against Aston Villa but believes there is 'no excuse' for dropping a two-goal lead

Women in middle age are far from elderly; most of their adult lives are still ahead of them. But, says Victoria Smith in Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-aged Women, once women are no longer young they are inevitably seen not only as past their expiry dates but also annoying, useless, entitled and embarrassing. Oh, and ugly of course. Bruno Fernandes has welcomed Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag's 'strict' management style and clear philosophy This has offered the manager the opportunity to share the streamlined working practices of Ajax and Bayern Munich, where the hierarchy and decision-making process is clearly defined and driven by a 'one club, one vision approach.' This was not an easy story to read. I wish this came with trigger warnings. Horror is one thing but this was on another level. Also, after reading the original, I have to say that the original was way way way better.

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They are cautious about being so optimistic so soon, but given the context of the last decade as well as the circumstances that Ten Hag inherited, it is easy to understand why he has made such a positive impression. Jamie Carragher gives his thoughts on what has been a positive pre-season for Manchester United and what he believes Erik ten Hag must prioritise first Ashleigh and George move to George's parents' farm, Sour hall farm after she inherits the farm. They start working on renovating and also how to make a profit from selling cheese and milk and the likes. It is rumored that the farm is haunted by The Boggart. Ashleigh starts to see some strange things that are somehow related to her past. There were quite a few daughters of the Cailleach mentioned in her chapters, with her watching over them, and them having varying degrees of her witching gift. In total, we were acquainted with more than ten hags from this family, and none were all too interesting or brought to flesh skillfully enough. Discipline on the pitch comes from discipline off the pitch. Nobody can get away with anything with him."

I love creepy stories, I love stories in which it is left up to the reader to decide whether what is happening is supernatural or the mind responding to trauma, and I love wlw, so it's no wonder I loved this one. We follow Alice Grace Kyles, snippets throughout her life. Even at six she sees her future husband and child. But her small family moves to Colorado Springs, away from the boy.We kept our deal with Auntie Ethel and left Vanra in her hands. In return, Auntie Ethel will help us in the fight to come. Portuguese journalist Pedro Sepulveda believes that Cristiano Ronaldo could be heading to Atletico Madrid despite his former ties to Real Madrid The idea that the person who gave birth to you, breastfed you, dealt with your tantrums and taught you how to use a toilet is a human being with an inner life just as rich as your own is an indignity too much for some people – some men, especially – to bear, the ultimate case of being beaten by a girl. Therefore, women’s link to physical dependency must mean they are purely physical creatures, incapable of interpreting their own experiences – “too stupid to understand their own jokes”, as Smith puts it. The life of the mind belongs to men. Women may be given guest access, as long as they are not yet subsumed into that “bovine” mass of middle-aged mothers. Watch highlights as Erik ten Hag gets life as Manchester United manager off to a winning start with a 4-0 thrashing of Liverpool in Bangkok. All of Man Utd’s tour games are available to watch on MUTV, Sky Channel 418. The cellar of The Blushing Mermaid looks just like a hag's lair. We need to speak to the owner, Captain Grisly, about this.

Hags is an impassioned defence of Smith's belief that "society hates middle-aged women". Yet Smith failed to convince me (a 41 year old and middle aged according to blurb) of the veracity of that thesis.The new Ajax boss said: "We have sold a certain amount of players and I am expecting nobody else to leave. It would be bad for us if we would lose another starter."

Let's start by saying transwomen are women and if you're yelling at customer service staff you deserve to be called a Karen. Unlike his immediate predecessors, Ten Hag leads every element of training - even to the extent of rearranging cones. Van der Gaag and McClaren are also hands on, helped by Darren Fletcher and Eric Ramsay. In her pertinent and thought-provoking introduction, Oxford professor Carolyne Larrington notes that fairytales from the British Isles are less well known than mainland Europe, whose "collectors were busying themselves in capturing, writing down, popularising and sanitising their stories". In Hag, 10 of these lesser-known tales have been matched to authors with a connection to the locality. The stories were first published last year as an Audible podcast which won a fiction award at the 2020 British Podcast Awards. Here’s what I didn’t like: Sigh. Ok. So. Here we go again tbh. First of all this book was extremely heteronormative and binary normative… as I’m discovering so many of these sorts of books (i.e. witchy historical adult fiction 🙄) inevitably are. (*Makes mental note to triple uptalk Hargrave’s The Mercies*—I didn’t realize it would be the ONLY f/f witchy historical adult fiction book that I would *ever* read. 🙄🙄) And I want to be clear that I understand that there’s a difference between writing a book whose MC is cis hetero and writing a book that is heteronormative and this book unfortunately was the latter. (The All Souls Trilogy is an excellent example of the former.) Smith also notes the disregard for older women’s wisdom accrued from moving through the world and navigating the many obstacles in their path, which is often seen as at odds with the more enlightened values of younger people. For instance, a middle-aged woman might reasonably express reservations at the notion that hair-pulling and choking by a man during sex signifies liberation, on account of her 40 or so years watching the goalposts being shifted around sex and sexual abuse for the gratification of men.This is 100% personal but I find it very hard to read about stories in which a person cheats on their sibling with that sibling's partner, which therefore made it hard for me to enjoy this particular story. Little writes well, though, and engaged with the matter in a sensitive, nuanced way. Within these magical, ingenious stories lies all of the angst, horror and beauty of adolescence. A brilliant achievement." (Evie Wyld)