defender Angelo Ogbonna (L), West Ham United’s Czech midfielder
Tomas Soucek (C)and West Ham United’s Czech defender Vladimir
Coufal react at the final whistle during the English Premier League
football match between Everton and West Ham United at Goodison Park
in Liverpool, north west England on January 1, 2021.
Jan Kruger / POOL / AFP
Everton missed the chance to go a point behind local
rivals Liverpool at the top of the Premier League as Tomas Soucek’s
late strike earned West Ham a 1-0 win at Goodison Park on
Friday.
In a disappointing game of few chances, Soucek was in the right
place to stab home Aaron Cresswell’s deflected shot four minutes
from time as David Moyes enjoyed a winning return to his former
club.
Victory for the Hammers moves them to within three points of
third despite sitting 10th in the table.
Everton on the other hand were left to rue a huge missed
opportunity to bolster their European credentials.
Carlo Ancelotti’s men had enjoyed nearly a week off after their
clash with Manchester City on Monday was postponed due to a
coronavirus outbreak among the City squad.
Ancelotti was able to welcome back Richarlison from a concussion
and James Rodriguez made his return from injury off the bench in
the second-half, but the Toffees rarely put West Ham stand-in
goalkeeper Darren Randolph under any pressure.
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The visitors had the best chance of the first-half when another
Cresswell shot flew across goal and this time beyond Jarrod Bowen
at the back post.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored a hat-trick when the sides met in
the League Cup in September, but the England international was
largely anonymous.
West Ham were playing for the third time in six days, yet it was
Moyes’s men who ended the game stronger and grabbed the late
winner.
Soucek’s goals from midfield have played a big part in his
side’s success this season and the Czech international scored for
the fourth time in seven games when Cresswell’s effort broke kindly
to him.
Later, Manchester United have the chance to move level on points
with Liverpool when they host in-form Aston Villa, who could go
third with victory at Old Trafford.
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Britain on Friday became the latest country to abolish the
so-called “tampon tax,” eliminating sales taxes on women’s sanitary
products.
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The move was widely praised by women’s rights advocates as well
as proponents of the country’s departure from the European
Union.
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Treasury chief Rishi Sunak had committed to ending the widely
unpopular tax on tampons and sanitary pads in his budget in March
but the change could only take effect Friday after Britain had
finally left the economic orbit of the European Union.
Under EU law, nations cannot reduce the rate of value-added tax
on menstrual products below 5% as they are deemed to be luxury
items and not essentials. Ireland is the only EU country that does
not charge a levy on sanitary products as its zero tax rate was in
place before the EU set its floor.
“Sanitary products are essential, so it’s right that we do not
charge VAT,” said Sunak. “We have already rolled out free sanitary
products in schools, colleges and hospitals and this commitment
takes us another step closer to making them available and
affordable for all women.”
Britain officially left the bloc’s vast single market for
people, goods and services at 11 p.m. London time on Thursday,
giving it greater scope to set its own laws. A new U.K.-EU trade
deal will bring new restrictions and red tape, but for British
Brexit supporters, it means reclaiming national independence from
the EU and its rules. They pointed to the abolition of the tampon
tax as an early positive change from Brexit.
Britain’s treasury has previously estimated the move will save
the average woman nearly 40 pounds ($55) over her lifetime,
“It’s been a long road to reach this point, but at last, the
sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as nonessential,
luxury items can be consigned to the history books,” said Felicia
Willow, chief of the Fawcett Society, a women’s rights charity.
Many other countries have also eliminated the tampon tax,
including Australia, Canada and India. In the United States,
several states including New York and Florida have also nixed the
tax.
[Associated Press]