Neil Mellor
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"Neil Andrew Mellor" is an English retired professional Association football/footballer who began his career at Liverpool F.C./Liverpool in the Premier League and most recently played for Preston North End F.C./Preston North End. He made his name in 2004 by scoring a stunning last-minute goal from long range to give Liverpool F.C./Liverpool a 2–1 victory over Arsenal F.C./Arsenal at Anfield. Mellor also scored a vital goal and set up another during Liverpool's match with Olympiacos F.C./Olympiacos at Anfield during the group stage of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, which Liverpool went on to win. In December 2011, a knee injury sustained following a tackle by Milton Keynes Dons F.C./Milton Keynes striker Jabo Ibehre resulted in Mellor being forced into announcing his retirement on 9 May 2012. Since his retirement, Mellor has been doing media work, including match updates for SkySports News and work for LFC TV.

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Koizumi is seen as a reformer, and that's a good thing for the country and good for the yen, ... The big rise in the Nikkei will help the yen. We've seen substantial inflows into Japan.

Given that rising US interest rates underpinned the greenback's stellar performance in 2005, dollar bulls' disappointment in the wake of these minutes is inevitable.

Such has been the rise in interest in Japan of late that the market's apparent refusal to brood over potential terrorist attacks is perhaps wholly unsurprising. Foreign investors have positively reassessed Japan's economic and political outlook and have laid their bets accordingly.

The Bank of England is walking on a tight rope as the data this week has been quite weak, pointing to downside risks in the economy. We see sterling coming down from their lift last week, going lower against the euro from here.

The slowdown in the housing market has become dinner-table conversation and it may bring back talk of a second rate cut as the downward momentum saps consumer confidence. We are on the bearish side for the pound.

There's a gradual feeling that the ECB is closer to raising rates than first thought.

The move didn't happen until Wednesday and this was only my third game in 12 months, so I didn't expect to be thrown in like that but I couldn't have wished for a better start.