Thai cave diver Rick Stanton reflects on the mission to save 13 lives that transformed his own
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Not everyone is a football fan, but very rarely do you encounter somebody who is so repulsed by the beautiful game that they would describe it as 'abhorrent.'
At school in the 1960s and 70s, he says he could swim and run, but any time a ball came towards him, he recalls a sense of "complete panic."
And there can be no misunderstanding his stance on the matter. "I just didn't get it at all. Not interested," he told CNN, as he remembered lunchtimes sitting well away from the action "with the uncool kids who didn't kick balls around."
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.