Côr Merched Sir Gâr yw Côr Cymru 2017 wedi iddynt drechu pedwar côr arall yn y rownd derfynol nos Sul.

Wedi wythnosau o gystadlu brwd roedd pump côr wedi cyrraedd y rownd derfynol - Côr Ieuenctid Môn yng nghategori'r plant; Côr Merched Sir Gâr yng nghategori y corau ieuenctid; Côr Meibion Machynlleth yng nghategori y corau meibion; Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion yng nghategori y corau merched a Côrdydd -  enillydd categori y corau cymysg.
Cafodd y gystadleuaeth, sy'n digwydd bob dwy flynedd, ei chynnal nos Sul yn Aberystwyth.
Yn ôl y beirniaid Christopher Tin, prifardd ac enillydd dwy Grammy, María Guinand o Fenweswela a'r Athro Edward Higginbottom o Brifysgol Rhydychen, roedd y safon eleni yn hynod o uchel.
Wedi iddo glywed fod Côr Meibion Machynlleth wedi ennill categori y côr meibion, roedd Aled Myrddin, arweinydd y côr yn ofni y byddai'n dipyn o dasg i gael yr holl aelodau i'r ffeinal gan ei bod yn dymor ŵyna - ond fe ddaeth pob un!
Roedd gan bob côr ei rhaglen gerddorol unigol ar gyfer y gystadleuaeth ond eleni am y tro cyntaf bu'r corau yn cyd-ganu cân o waith un o feirniaid y gystadleuaeth sef Christopher Tin o Galiffornia.
Enw'r gân a gyfansoddwyd ar gyfer y corau i gyd oedd 'Adain Cân' - ac y mae'n gân o ddathlu. Ysgrifennwyd y geiriau - yn Gymraeg, Sbaeneg, Almaeneg a Saesneg - gan y Prifardd Mererid Hopwood.
Roedd pob côr wedi dewis darnau hynod o amrywiol a rhyngwladol.
Côr Merched Sir Gâr oedd y cyntaf i ganu a'u dewis o ddarnau yn y rownd derfynol oedd 'Waltz' - Novello, 'Il est bel et bon' gan Pierre Passereau, 'Turot eszik a cigany' gan y cyfansoddwr Hwngaraidd Kodaly, 'Beth yw'r haf i mi?' a medli o ganeuon gospel.
Dewis Côr Meibion Machynlleth oedd 'Heriwn, wynebwn y wawr' gan Gareth Glyn, 'Beati mortui'  - Mendelssohn, 'Joshua' a 'Gwinllan a roddwyd' (trefniant Caradog Williams).
Roedd Côr Ieuenctid Môn yn cystadlu am y pumed tro a'u dewis y tro hwn oedd 'In Paradisum' - Fauré, 'Cân Crwtyn y Gwartheg', 'The Lamb' - John Tavener a 'Rhosyn yr Iôr' (Gareth Glyn, y geiriau gan  Siân Owen).
Côrdydd oedd y pedwerydd côr i ymaddangos ar lwyfan y Neuadd Fawr a'u dewis nhw oedd 'Benedicamus Domino' - Peter Warlock, 'Heilig'  - Mendelssohn, Alleluia - Jake Runestad, 'Gwrando 'ngweddi, O Dduw' - Purcell a 'Don't let the sun go down on me' (trefniant o gân Elton John).
Côr Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion oedd y côr olaf i ymddangos - a hwn oedd yr ail gôr i Islwyn Evans arwain ar y llwyfan gan mai ef hefyd oedd yn arwain Côr Merched Sir Gâr.
Fe ddewison nhw, hefyd, ddarn gan Gareth Glyn sef 'Henffych Datws' (y geiriau gan Gwyn Thomas). Y tri darn arall oedd 'Ave Maria' - Franz Biebl, 'Ukuthula' o Dde Affrica a 'Pseudo Yoik Lite' gan Jaakko Mäntyjärvi o'r Ffindir.
Roedd 'na wobr yn ogystal i'r arweinydd gorau ac fe aeth y wobr honno i Eilir Owen Griffiths - arweinydd CF1 a fu'n cystadlu yng nghategori y corau cymysg.
Roedd gan y gynulleidfa hefyd gyfle i bleidleisio am eu hoff gôr a'u dewis eleni oedd Côr Ieuenctid Môn. Côr Meibion Machynlleth oedd ail ddewis y gwylwyr a thrydydd dewis y gwylwyr oedd ffefryn y beirniaid sef Côr Merched Sir Gâr.
Yn ogystal ag ennill £5,000, bydd enillwyr Côr Cymru 2017 eleni yn cael cynnig mynd i gynrychioli Cymru yng nghystadleuaeth Côr y Flwyddyn Eurovision 2017.
Mae S4C wedi sicrhau'r hawliau darlledu a bydd y gystadleuaeth i'w gweld yn fyw ar y sianel ar 22 o Orffennaf.
Dyma'r flwyddyn gyntaf i Eurovision gynnig y math yma o gystadleuaeth a bydd yn cael ei chynnal yn Latfia.
Bydd y noson yn cael ei harwain gan y cyfansoddwr a'r arweinydd corawl byd-enwog Eric Whitacre ac ymysg y beirniaid bydd y cyfansoddwr corawl John Rutter a'r soprano Elina Garanca.
Bydd Côr Merched Sir Gâr felly yn cael y cyfle i fod  ymysg rhai o gorau mwyaf disglair Ewrop ac fe fyddant yn ymddangos gyda'r goreuon o Awstria, Gwlad Belg, Denmarc, Estonia, Yr Almaen, Hwngari, Slofenia a Latfia.
Meddai Hefin Owen, Uwch gynhyrchydd Côr Cymru, "Dyma ddatblygiad pwysig iawn o ran cystadleuaeth Côr Cymru ac mae'n gyfle gwych i'r côr buddugol a Chymru fedru serennu ar lwyfan Ewropeaidd.
"Mae'n gyfle gwych hefyd i gynulleidfa S4C fwynhau gwledd o ganu gan rai o gorau mwyaf safonol Ewrop."
Bydd hyd at 50 o aelodau côr buddugol Côr Cymru 2017 yn cael gwahoddiad i fynd i gystadleuaeth Côr y Flwyddyn Eurovision 2017 a gynhelir yn Arena Riga yn Latfia.
Meddai Elen Rhys, Comisiynydd Cynnwys Adloniant, S4C, "Mae S4C yn hynod o  falch o ddarlledu'r gystadleuaeth Eurovision yma ac o'r ffaith y bydd cynrychiolaeth o Gymru yno.
"Mae'n gam naturiol yn esblygiad y gyfres boblogaidd Côr Cymru ac yn gyfle gwych i arddangos ein talentau corawl ar lwyfan Ewropeaidd."
Nos Sadwrn fe gipiodd Côr Ysgol Pen Barras o Ruthun y teitl Côr Cynradd Cymru 2017.
Yn ôl Caryl Parry Jones, a oedd nos Sul yn sedd y sylwebydd: "Mae'r safon drwy gydol y gystadleuaeth wedi bod yn anhygoel o uchel ond roedd heno yn ddyrchafol."


A disability campaigner has called on a Northern Ireland health trust to remove a sign which refers to disabled people as "physically handicapped".

Campaigner Peter Mitchell has called the sign at Limavady Health Centre "deeply offensive and wrong on so many levels".
He said there was an onus on health care providers to use more socially acceptable language.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust has promised to take action.
Mr Mitchell, a local actor and wheelchair user, said he initially thought the sign was a "wind-up".
"The word handicapped is really offensive," he said.
"It comes from mid 17th Century when disabled people were seen as second class citizens, they literally had to beg on the streets with their cap in their hands.
"Do people look at me because I am in a wheelchair, as a second class citizen, that I have nothing to offer?"
He said there was ongoing debate among disability groups as to appropriate language, but said there was widespread agreement that the word handicapped was "wrong on so many levels".
Damon Rose from BBC Ouch said the word "embodies an old fashioned idea that if you are handicapped you have something wrong with you".
"Whereas if you are disabled people tend to think of that more as a problem people can solve by putting in ramps or accessible loos".
In a statement the Western Trust said: "We are grateful that this has been brought to our attention and will take action to rectify immediately."


Partick Thistle have signed former Hearts and St Mirren goalkeeper Mark Ridgers after Thorsten Stuckmann came to the end of his contract at Firhill.

Scotsman Ridgers, 26, has been released by Orlando City B, the Major League Soccer side's second string.
Stuckmann joined Thistle in September after leaving Doncaster Rovers and the 35-year-old played five times for the Scottish Premiership club.
But first-choice Tomas Cerny has returned from injury.
Stuckmann, who previously played for Preussen Munster, Eintracht Braunschweig, Alemannia Aachen and Preston North End, played in two wins and three defeats.
Ridgers began his career with Ross County but had to wait until Hearts sent him on loan to East Fife before making a first-team appearance.
He also had a spell at Airdrie before being given his Hearts debut.
However, he only made four appearances for the Edinburgh club before moving to St Mirren in 2014.
Ridgers was released by the Paisley club last January after a short loan spell with Kilmarnock and joined Orlando in the United Soccer League.
He made 28 appearances as his side finished eighth in the table in the 2016 season.


Police in Switzerland have arrested seven senior officials from Fifa, the organisation that runs world football and organises the World Cup.

The men were held after early morning raids at a hotel in the city of Zurich.
They're charged with corruption, which means being dishonest in a position of power. They're suspected of taking millions of US dollars in bribes.
They include vice-president Jeffrey Webb - who runs football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
The Fifa members have been charged by authorities in America and could be flown to the US to face trial.
Some of the corruption charges relate to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, as well as the 2011 Fifa presidential election.
The Swiss authorities have also started a separate criminal investigation into the how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar were chosen.
The Fifa presidential election will still take place on Friday despite the arrests.
Current Fifa boss Sepp Blatter faces Prince Ali bin al-Hussein; Blatter is looking to win a fifth term as Fifa president.
Fifa has been hit by accusations of corruption and wrongdoing in recent years.
The latest developments are another major blow, although Fifa spokesman Walter De Gregorio insisted the organisation is getting better.
"This is good for Fifa," he told a news conference following news of the arrests. "It hurts, it is not easy, but it confirms we are on the right track.


Stress can lead to burn-out, whether you're a chief executive or a shelf stacker.

Hector Sants, the former boss of the Financial Services Authority, had to bow out from his compliance role at Barclays Bank because of stress and exhaustion.
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Nor is the world of sport immune. England batsman Jonathan Trott recently left the Ashes tour of Australia owing to a long-standing stress-related condition.
But these are just high-profile examples of a much wider problem.
Workers in the UK took an average 5.3 days off work in 2012, according to the 2013 CBI/Pfizer Fit for Purpose survey, with stress, anxiety and depression given as the main causes of absence.
Sick leave is costing the UK economy £14bn a year, the report suggests. So there is a strong financial incentive for businesses to keep their "human capital" as healthy and happy as possible.
Most large businesses offer some form of stress and anxiety counselling, coupled with flexible working to help employees manage their work/life balance.
For example, telecoms group BT offers its staff a real-time online chat facility with Relate, the family relationships charity, that can provide anonymous and convenient help.
But a growing number are also using the latest diagnostic testing equipment and a range of new technologies to help them spot problems before they arise.
Joe Dunbar, director of operations at IPRO Interactive, a health diagnostics provider serving sport, the military and the corporate sectors, says: "We can now measure employee stress levels using a portable saliva testing machine that can give us an accurate reading in minutes, rather than hours in a laboratory."
The reader, which costs about £1,500 and is manufactured by German medicare company Qiagen, measures levels of the main stress hormone cortisol, as well as other hormones such as testosterone and immunoglobulin.
High stress levels can reduce our immune systems and make us more susceptible to illness and coronary heart disease, research shows.
"Once we know what an employee's stress level is we can then put interventions in place," says Mr Dunbar, "from encouraging more exercise to changing work patterns."
English Premier League football clubs, such as Manchester United and Manchester City, are big users of the technology, he says, to help them devise bespoke training regimes for their their highly-paid players.
Martin Potgeter, Qiagen's senior director of corporate development, says portable diagnostic machines are particularly helpful for international businesses whose mobile workforces are vulnerable to picking up infections and diseases as they travel between countries.
One area of growing concern is latent tuberculosis (TB), which lies dormant in people but can become active if immune systems are weakened.
About a third of the world's population has latent TB, says the World Health Organization (WHO), and roughly 10% of those go on to develop the highly-infectious active form of the disease.
In 2012, 8.6 million people fell ill with TB and 1.3 million died from it, the WHO says.
"Latent TB testing for industry is one of our fastest-growing markets," says Mr Potgeter. "Our clients include Guinness, Heineken, Exxon Mobil, Mercedes Benz and NASA."
The Qiagen hormone reader is being adapted to allow TB tests in the new year, he added.
Complete Coherence, a "bio-science-powered performance coaching" company whose clients include Unilever, BT, the Post Office and Deutsche Bank, uses heart rate monitoring and hormone measurement to help senior executives achieve a healthier, more productive lifestyle.
"Heart rate variability is a good indicator of burn-out and potential sudden death," says Sarah Watkins, the company's founding director.
"Using our wearable cardiosense trainer and uploading the data to our software programme can help executives change their breathing and improve their heart rate. It's all about preventing disease before we have to treat it."
But this kind of personal monitoring using the latest hi-tech equipment is still expensive, despite the fact that such diagnostic kit is becoming cheaper.
Companies with large workforces are resorting to "nudge" tactics instead - encouraging rather than enforcing healthier living.
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StepJockey recently unveiled its Department of Health-backed scheme to add "smart labels" to workplace staircases, enabling users to work out how many calories they burn when they use the stairs and incorporate that data into a fitness-tracking app.
John Harries, head of health and life sciences for Samsung Enterprise Business Europe, says: "The big breakthrough in workplace healthcare will be around the use of consumer electronics and smartphones. These things are a lot cheaper than purpose-built devices and they are familiar to use."
Smartphones, smartwatches and sensor-laden wristbands can already measure heart rate, blood pressure, and calories burned through exercise, with all the data uploadable to software programs that can track performance and provide advice and encouragement.
"The next iteration of our Samsung Galaxy phone will have more health sensors built in," says Mr Harries. "The direction of travel is to build up this kind of health monitoring capability even more."
The main barriers to wider adoption of such technology in the workplace are ethical not technological, he argues, because there is still a stigma attached to mental health.
"The danger is that if you're struggling in your job and becoming anxious about it, you may feel under pressure to manage your own condition, worrying that your employer might use it as an excuse to get rid of you."
This is why building trust between employer and employee is key, he says.
And that is as true for top executives as it is for factory workers.


Police officers should seek immediate medical attention for prisoners they believe have swallowed drugs, according to a recommendation from the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner.

It follows an inquiry into the arrest of a man who ended up in intensive care after taking legal highs.
The incident happened on 1 December 2014 in Edinburgh.
The investigation found officers should have ensured the man was examined sooner by a healthcare professional.
Commissioner Kate Frame said: "Where there exists a suspicion that prisoners have swallowed or absorbed drugs or other harmful substances it is imperative that police officers seek immediate medical attention for those individuals."
The investigation revealed that following reports of a disturbance in a common close, the man was handcuffed, arrested and placed into a police van.
On the way to the police office, officers needed to stop the van due to the man's behaviour, at which point they saw him remove a package, which had been hidden in his body, and put it into his mouth.
Officers recovered as much of the package as they could but were unsure if the man had swallowed some of the material.
However, they were able to see he had a blue substance on his lips.
Due to his violence, the officers continued to the police station where a nurse was on duty.
On the way to the police station, the officers asked for the man be admitted to custody urgently, however these requests were treated as routine rather than urgent and the man had to wait for 26 minutes in the police van before being received into custody.
Although it would have been possible for the officers to request the nurse to examine the man while he waited in the van, she was not asked.
The man then told officers he had swallowed two of three "legal highs" contained in the package.
He was then examined by the nurse before being transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where his health deteriorated, resulting in sedation and care in the intensive treatment unit for three days.
Medical staff were unable to confirm if "legal highs" had caused his condition.
The case was referred to the PIRC by Police Scotland for independent investigation.


A Welsh Liberal Democrat election candidate has accused UKIP of wanting "border security guards" at hospitals.

It follows UKIP leader Nigel Farage's comments on migrants using the NHS for HIV treatment costing Â£25,000 per year.
On the Daily Politics Wales Election Debate on Thursday, Lib Dem Jane Dodds said UKIP lacked "care and compassion" on such healthcare issues.
UKIP's Caroline Jones said Ms Dodds was "taking things to extremes" but claimed people were "fed up to the back teeth".
Ms Jones told the programme that she understood Mr Farage's comments that the NHS was treating too many people from abroad with HIV.
She said: "Is it fair when you've got a small pot of money to allow someone to come in who has never contributed to that pot, and have someone from your family or your constituency to be denied medication and treatment?
"That is constantly happening."
But Ms Dodds said everybody should have fair treatment, asking "Do you want border security guards on hospitals?
"Do you want GPs' surgeries to have lines that say 'do not cross here unless you've paid into the system for five years'?
"Where is the care and compassion here?"
Plaid Cymru's Carrie Harper said debate about immigration should not be taboo as it was an issue that voters wanted to discuss.
"But this type of scaremongering and the blaming immigrants for everything rhetoric is very unhelpful to the debate," she added.
"The economic problems facing people in our communities have been caused by the reckless behaviour of bankers in the City, and they've been caused by the austerity agenda of the London parties."
For Labour, Nick Thomas-Symonds said the NHS would not be able to function without migrant workers.
"The National Health Service is the greatest achievement of any post-War government," he said.
"There is no doubt at all factually that without migrant workers working in it, you wouldn't have an NHS in 2015."
For the Conservatives, Emma Lane said immigration had been beneficial to the UK.
"Immigration can and has benefited our country but it must be managed," she said.
"We need to control immigration so the pressure doesn't continue on public services".


The defence secretary will open the door to RAF airstrikes against terrorist targets in Syria in a speech today.

Michael Fallon will tell MPs that a new parliament should consider afresh the case for attacking the forces of Isis or the so-called Islamic State not just in Iraq but in Syria as well.
He will insist that there is no legal barrier to British military attacks and point out that both the Canadian and Jordanian air forces have already attacked Syrian targets.
David Cameron was defeated in the Commons just under two years ago when Tory rebels joined forces with Labour to oppose airstrikes on Syrian government targets designed to deter the use of chemical weapons.
Ever since August 2013 the prime minister has said he would respect the vote.
Today the Defence Secretary will repeat Mr Cameron's assurance that no military action in Syria will be taken without another vote in the Commons but he will say that following the election it is time to reconsider the arguments.
He will point to the possibility that terrorist attacks, like the murder of up to 30 Britons in Tunisia this week, may have been planned in Raqqa in Northern Syria which is known as Isis's capital city.
Ministers would not risk losing another vote on Syria unless they knew they had the support of the Labour Party.
I understand that there has been contact between the two parties to discuss the possibility of another vote on Syrian military action in the future though nothing is expected imminently.


Facebook has been showing off the latest advancements in its image recognition research.

As well as talking about it at Dublin's Web Summit event*, the company has outlined a few of the key points in a blog post.
It hopes the technology - a blend of artificial intelligence and machine-learning - will be able to help blind people "see" images by enabling our computers to distinguish what is in a picture.
It's an incredibly sophisticated task. Next month, the company says it will present a paper detailing the progress it has made so far.
"Our AI research efforts - along with our work to develop radical new approaches to connectivity and our work to develop immersive new VR technologies - are a long-term endeavour," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer.
"But if we can get them right we will be able to build systems that are smarter and more useful, enable developers to create immersive new experiences, and make it possible to connect everyone in the world."
I'll look in more depth at Facebook's work when that paper is made public. But first I wanted to share a little anecdote that hints at just how smart Facebook's AI is becoming. Or how scary it's becoming, depending on your point of view.
About a month ago I spent a morning at Facebook's new building in Menlo Park, catching up on various areas of the social network's research - one of which was AI.
My guide showed me the image recognition system by handing me a pile of pictures of dogs. Each was a different breed.
I held up a picture of a Border Collie, and the machine would think for a moment before saying "Border Collie".
Picture of a German Shepherd… a moment's pause... "German Shepherd".
It recognised each dog almost instantly.
OK, very smart. But feeling sceptical, I wondered if the machine was just looking out for the specific picture - which is simple - rather than having a knowledge of dog breeds.
So I loaded up a photo of a friend's bulldog on my phone, to see if the machine was smart enough to figure it out.
I held it up, the computer thought about it for a moment, and then it said...
"Smartphone."
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Guernsey cricket boss Ashley Wright has challenged his side to fulfil their potential by gaining promotion from World Cricket League Five in September.

The islanders take on the Netherlands this weekend, with further warm-ups against Scotland and Denmark to come.
"We've got a very good team now and we're going to try and win the tournament," Wright told BBC Guernsey.
"We've got a young exciting squad now, and it's time to start turning some of that potential into results."
He continued: "As always we're aiming to get promoted, like I imagine every team is who's going there."
Guernsey will host a Twenty20 match and two one-day games against the Dutch at the King George V Club.
Director of cricket Wright will be without all-rounder Matt Stokes for the triple-header, while teenage bowler Will Fazakerley remains with Leicestershire, where he has a professional deal.
"It's given a few of our emerging players, and some of the lads on the fringe, to actually get in against a team like this," he added.
"If they go well then they can start pushing to get that first-team spot for when we go off to South Africa.
"As a sportsman you always want to try and test yourself against the best people you can, and that's why we're trying to more cricket on the island."


Manager Warren Feeney has told Newport County's out of contract players to "sign what's been offered" if they want to stay at the club.

Captain Mark Byrne and top scorer Scott Boden are two of six players who have been offered fresh terms but have yet to put pen to paper.
"There are deadlines there," said Feeney. "If you want to play for this club then you want to sign what's been offered, you take it.
"If you don't then you move on."
The futures of Alex Rodman, Danny Holmes, John Christophe-Ayina and Medy Elito are also in doubt.
So far just defender Darren Jones has committed to a new one year contract while Andrew Hughes rejected his offer to sign for League One side Peterborough.
Football League rules state that players must notify clubs in writing within a month whether they intend to accept their terms, with County having released their retained list on May 10.
Midfielder Byrne has been linked with a reunion with former Newport manager Justin Edinburgh at Gillingham after similar speculation during the January transfer window.
Feeney accepts the longer the situation is drawn out, the more likely it is that Byrne and others could leave when their current contracts expire at the end of the month.
"That could be the case," Feeney added.
"At the end of the day I can't sit and wait, I'm talking to people.
"We'll see where there are but if they wanted to sign contracts, get it over the line and get it done.
"They'll wait so I'm in a position where I can wait.
"I'm talking to people and the deadline is coming up so we're going to have to possibly move on."
Feeney is confident of securing a further three new signings in the coming weeks.
Midfielder Joss Labadie became their fourth addition this summer joining Scot Bennett, Mark Randall and Jamie Turley in signing two year contracts to move to Rodney Parade.


As England take on Scotland at Wembley tonight the FA's chief executive Martin Glenn is looking beyond the result of one World Cup qualifier.

Mr Glenn, who spent decades in the food industry before taking over at the FA some 18 months ago, has a long list of goals, with success for the men's elite football team just one of them.
Transforming the FA's finances, promoting more diversity within its structures, and continuing to support the grassroots game - including women's football - are also high on his agenda.
"The FA is a not-for-profit organisation - that is intentional... not accidental," he jokes.
"We play an interesting role in the game, we sit in the middle of two very successful leagues, the Premier League and English Football League.
"The FA's job is to sit between highly successful commercial enterprises, and try and harness the amount of money in the game to best effect."
Mr Glenn's reign at the head of English football has been something of a roller coaster ride so far, with the shock defeat to underdogs Iceland at Euro 2016, and then manager Sam Allardyce resigning after a Daily Telegraph investigation.
Prior to taking up his role in March last year, Mr Glenn worked as chief executive for United Biscuits, home to the well-known McVities's and Jacobs brands.
Before that, he first attracted attention in the business world in the mid-1990s when he greatly increased the market share of Walkers Snack Foods, and signed up former England star Gary Lineker to be the face of the eponymous crisp brand.
Mr Glenn ran the business until 2006, when he left to join another food brand, Birdseye, where he put the iconic Captain Birdseye into dry dock and replaced him with a polar bear called Clarence.
Mr Glenn has being using that commercial experience - and seeming ruthlessness - to reinvigorate the FA's finances, for example by cutting admin jobs and diverting the money into grassroots football development.
"I was brought in to relocate cash from the back office to the playing side. We have made a lot of progress over the past year on the economics of the FA," he says.
One indicator of progress made is his declaration that the FA's revenues are forecast to grow by around a third, to £420m, in 2018.
"I am also happy we have extended our domestic TV rights deal for the FA Cup with BT and the BBC," he says.
In addition, a new international TV rights deal for the FA Cup will be worth more than £800m in total across six years -  a development Mr Glenn says presents him with the welcome problem of deciding, with the FA's board, of how to spend the money.
Meanwhile, the financial ball-and-chain that had been Wembley Stadium is being turned into a useful asset, bringing in revenues not only through FA-sanctioned matches, but also via music concerts, NFL American football games, and... Tottenham Hotspur.
While they build their new stadium, Spurs are playing this season's Champions League games at Wembley, and there is also an option to play Premier League and cup games at the 90,000-capacity national arena during the 2017-18 season.
However, he points out that the FA is still carrying £200m debt from the building of Wembley Stadium.
"We would like to pay that down - to be debt free," says Mr Glenn, speaking at a Sport Industry Group business gathering in London.
"But the Wembley Stadium proposition is profitable, it is not a stone in our shoe any more."
Another issue in Mr Glenn's in-tray is diversity at the FA. The government has recently announced new governance standards for sport, that come into effect next April.
Organisations seeking funding from Sport England, regardless of size and sector, including national governing bodies, have been set a target of at least 30% gender diversity on their boards.
Failure to comply could mean government funds for the FA being withheld, but Mr Glenn says he does not need the fear of sanctions in order to modernise the game's governance demographic.
"From my experience in business, I can see the whole drive for wider recognition on boards is not about box ticking," he says. "There is a good business case for it."
He believes that organisations whose management structures reflect the people they represent "make better business decisions".
Mr Glenn says among the FA workforce there will be no problem in achieving the desired representations, but he admits that more will have to be done to address the make-up of the FA board.
At present Heather Rabatts is the only woman and the only representative from an ethnic minority on the board.
"What we can control is fine," he says, but points out that five members of the board are appointed by other bodies, namely the county FAs (representing the national game), the Premier League, and the Football League.
He says his job is to "persuade the other constituents of the board" that more diversity is desirable.
"Business is run in the 21st Century in a certain way, and we should reflect how that is."
Mr Glenn is a former Leicester City FC non-executive director, and sat on the club's board from 2002 to 2006.
But he is also an FA qualified grassroots coach, holding a Level One coaching badge, and is aware that as local councils provide fewer facilities for grassroots football it behoves the football body to step in.
Last month in Sheffield he was at the opening of the first Parklife hub - part of a plan to roll out 150 football centres across 30 cities by 2020 in a drive to upgrade grassroots football facilities across the country.
That is another reason why he says money is important for the FA, to help with the grassroots investment in pitches and coaches, schemes which do not always get the same media attention as the England men's team playing tonight.
"We are a very broad church - we run women's soccer, are in charge of elite international teams, in charge of discipline, and responsible for participation and development of the sport," says Mr Glenn.


Rob Kearney could be ruled out of the remainder of Ireland's Six Nations campaign with an arm injury.

The Leinster full-back damaged his bicep towards the end of Saturday's 63-10 win over Italy in Rome.
The Irish Independent has reported that the injury could require surgery and Kearney is set to miss this week's three-day training camp in Monaghan.
Ireland have declined to comment on the extent of the injury but will issue an update on the situation on Friday.
The 30-year-old is in a race to be fit for the matches against France, Wales and England.
Simon Zebo is the most likely candidate to assume the number 15 jersey should Kearney be missing, with Ulster's fit-again Andrew Trimble coming on to the wing.
Robbie Henshaw is set to train this week despite suffering a dead leg.
The centre was forced to retire hurt with the injury against the Italians but is likely to join the Irish squad when they get together on Wednesday.
Flanker Peter O'Mahony, who was not considered for Ireland's opening two Six Nations games because of a hamstring injury, trained with Munster on Monday, but will not play for the province against the Ospreys on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Jamie Heaslip has agreed a new contract with the Irish Rugby Football Union, which will see him continue to play for Leinster and Ireland until the end of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
The 33-year-old number eight has won 93 caps for Ireland, scoring 13 tries and has started 36 of Ireland's last 41 Test matches.


Manager Brendan Rodgers is sure Celtic can exploit the wide open spaces of Hampden when they meet Rangers in Sunday's League Cup semi-final.

"I'm really looking forward to it - the home of Scottish football," said Rodgers ahead of his maiden visit.
"I hear the pitch is good, a nice big pitch suits the speed in our team and our intensity.
"The technical area goes right out to the end of the pitch, but you might need a taxi to get back to your staff."
This will be Rodgers' second taste of the Old Firm derby and his experience of the fixture got off to a great start with a 5-1 league victory at Celtic Park last month.
"It was a brilliant performance by the players in every aspect," he recalled. "Obviously this one is on a neutral ground, but we'll be looking to have a similar performance.
"We'll be prepared and focused. We know it's going to be a tough game. We anticipated that the last time."
Rodgers is also aware Celtic's visit to Hampden last season in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers ended in defeat.
"The last experience there wasn't so good for Celtic," he said. "But it's a different team with a different mentality and we'll look to take that mentality into the game."
Rodgers lost two semi-finals in his time at Liverpool and is aiming to make it third time lucky at the club he joined in the summer.
"You have to perform - that's what's important and if you get little bit of luck along the way then hopefully you'll get the result that you want." said the Northern Irishman.
"So, for us, it's really looking at our performance level, which in the main has been at a really high level.
"My focus is always on my own team and, if we impose our style of play, it can give a lot of problems to opponents."
Unlike predecessor Ronny Deila, Rodgers would not be drawn on this semi-final being a step on the way to a potential domestic treble.
"It's very, very difficult to achieve," he said. "There's been great managers here in the past that haven't achieved that.
"But it's the first competition where we've a chance to win a trophy and I've always said that it's a priority for us because it's the first one.
"Our idea was to qualify for the Champions League, which we did, to make a good start in the league, which we've done, and then look to get to the League Cup final.
"Unless you can do that then you don't have the chance to win the trophies."


The US Air Force has grounded a fleet of F-35 fighter jets indefinitely over concerns over pilots' oxygen supplies, according to a spokesman.

F-35 air operations were paused at an Arizona air base after pilots suffered symptoms resembling hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, Captain Mark Graff said.
Lockheed Martin, which built the jet, said it still plans to show the plane at the Paris Air Show this month.
Air Force officials said F-35 fighter jets at other bases were still in use.
Luke Air Force Base, located northwest of Phoenix, cancelled local flying operations for its F-35A Lightning II aircraft on Friday after five incidents were reported in which pilots experienced hypoxia-like symptoms.
But they continued to be grounded on Monday as the Air Force investigated the issue with pilots, maintenance workers and medical professionals, according to base spokeswoman Major Rebecca Heyse.
The incidents took place between 2 May and Thursday, but in each case the jet's backup oxygen system was successful and the aircraft landed safely.
Luke Air Force Base has 55 F-35A Lightning II jets in operation and conducts 25 training flights each weekday, according to base officials.
More than 220 operational F-35 jets have been built worldwide. The stealthy jets have logged more than 95,000 flight hours, but the planes have yet to see combat.


As the speedboat navigates its way along the winding course of the Naya River in western Colombia, the signs soon start to appear that you have entered Farc territory.

Banners have been posted every few kilometres, emblazoned with the faces of the leadership of Marxist guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - both past and present.
They say: "52 years seeking peace," citing the length of Colombia's arduous civil war, one of the longest armed conflicts in the world.
One of the bloodiest too: as many as 220,000 lives are thought to have been lost during those years of fighting, which only now look like drawing to a close as a peace deal with the government moves ever closer.
We spend a couple of hot and muggy days in one of the riverside villages poking out among the banana and tropical cedar trees, killing time by drinking weak coffee and playing cards until our contact appears.
Part of the rebel army's civilian support network, he ushers us back on to a boat and takes us deeper into the jungle.
A day later, a group of guerrillas are waiting for us at the bottom of a rocky brook, M-16's slung over their shoulders.
They guide us in a trek up along steep mountain paths and across streams until the camp of the 30th Front of the Farc's Occidental Bloc emerges beneath the thick canopy.
The camp commander, a wiry moustached man called Roque, welcomes us with the hospitality Colombians are famous for.
While the Farc's shameful history of kidnapping - including journalists - shouldn't be overlooked, it is also immediately clear that we are in no danger and that this isn't the ill-advised trip that it might have been a number of years ago.
The Naya River marks the dividing line between two of Colombia's Pacific departments, Cauca and Valle de Cauca, and Roque explains the area has been calm for months.
As someone who has spent the past 33 years at war, the quiet still makes him twitchy.
Despite the historic agreement being reached in Havana, the local commander feels like the group is "effectively already in a bilateral ceasefire [with the military]", he says over a meal of white rice and a meat-less sancocho, a Colombian stew.
"There's such a great sensation of tranquillity that it almost makes you nervous," he says.
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The Farc in the 21st Century is a strange beast.
Gone is the bipolar vision of the Cold War, and gone too are most of its original intellectual architects, many killed in combat.
Today, somewhat anchorless, the rebels continue to go through motions of an armed insurgency - but they know a new future is beckoning.
They remain primed for war; machine guns by their beds, handguns under their pillows, all night lookouts keeping watch for an enemy that no longer seems to be searching for them.
Every day begins before dawn, with the first troop inspection at 05:00.
After coffee and breakfast in the dark, daylight begins to break and the morning's activities begin.
Whereas once they might have carried out stealth missions to set bombs around military checkpoints or ambush an army patrol as it makes its way through the forest, now they hold "capacitation workshops" to discuss the latest developments in the peace process.
The guerrilla army - of which this camp contains only a handful of combatants - is still largely made up of young men and women from poor rural backgrounds.
At 27 years old, all Camilo has known his entire adult life is the jungle and the Farc.
He admits that it shows up in some unlikely ways: he has never had a hot shower, for example, as he and his comrades bathe in the icy waters of a spring.
Softly spoken and with a disarming smile, Camilo hopes to put his guerrilla skills to good use once the peace is declared.
But what would a Farc explosives expert do outside the jungles of Colombia? "Maybe a civil engineer," he suggests.
"In terms of carrying our arms, we're still ready for war. But psychologically, we're already at peace," Camilo adds with an erudite turn of phrase that will serve him well in a future Farc political party.
Like Camilo, Tania joined the organisation while still a teenager.
She chose her nom de guerre after Tamara Bunke, Tania the Guerrilla, the East German revolutionary killed fighting alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia.
She used to admire the Farc women who came through her village dressed in green fatigues "carrying their backpacks through the rain, all of them so good-looking".
They spoke to her about joining up when she was still a girl, and she doesn't regret her decision to enlist but admits they left out the hardest detail: she would have to kill other Colombians.
"It's definitely not easy," she says. "After all, we're all brothers, all children of the same country. But that is just the way of the world."
Tania talks to us on the sidelines of an inter-camp football match, held in a jungle clearing the Farc has turned into a makeshift pitch.
The women's matches are as fiercely contested as the men's, and Tania says she loathes the traditional gender roles of wider Colombian society.
But the Farc bans women from having children in their ranks, and about 150 cases of allegedly forced abortions within the group are currently under investigation by the attorney general's office.
"As a woman, I hope to have my own family one day, but not while we live in these conditions," Tania says, referring to both life in the jungle and her uncertain future in a post-conflict Colombia.
Most guerrillas say their main fear is retribution from the country's paramilitary groups and argue that the state must guarantee their security.
After a deal is reached, many combatants will live in "concentration zones" or "encampments", the exact details of which still aren't clear.
But given that the Farc is largely financed through drug trafficking, some doubt whether the rank and file will be able to quietly step away from the lucrative cocaine trade without another glance over their shoulders.
Comandante Walter Mendoza, of the Occidental Bloc, insists his troops will comply with the order to disarm when he gives it.
"They know what they must do," he says. "We receive our orders from our superiors at the talks in Havana. We know we're about to take a very important step."
Still, he clarifies that they will not hand their guns in to the state in a televised event.
"That media show they want - of us suppliantly giving over our weapons - that show will not happen," he says.
As we leave the camp, we again speed past the Farc's propaganda on the riverbanks.
Over and over the words flash by: "52 years seeking peace."
Many Colombians reject such a one-sided description of the violent civil war.
But, if its slogan is to be believed, the Farc is now tantalisingly close to finding it.


Three ex-footballers who came forward to say they were sexually abused as children have called for the sport to back an independent trust that will "fight for justice".

The Offside Trust is fronted by former Crewe Alexandra players Andy Woodward and Steve Walters, and ex-Manchester City youth player Chris Unsworth.
Woodward said: "We have all been through it and we just want justice."
He said he wanted to help other victims and "for us to be free from the pain".
Mr Woodward, Mr Walters and Mr Unsworth gave up their right to anonymity last month to speak about abuse in football, prompting more people to come forward.
A total of 450 people have alleged they are victims and 55 amateur and professional football clubs are linked to allegations of abuse going back several decades.
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The Offside Trust aims to create a support network for players who have suffered abuse and their families.
At its launch on Monday, Mr Woodward, who was the first to come forward to speak about abuse by a former coach, told a news conference: "We do want justice because we all suffered a terrible ordeal.
"We want to move forward so we can protect the children suffering right now... we just want to help people. That's it."
Meanwhile, it has emerged that football clubs were officially warned in 1989 about ex-Southampton youth coach Bob Higgins, who is facing historical abuse allegations.
A letter, seen by the BBC, from the Football League to its member clubs, said it, the Football Association and English Schools' Football Association were "opposed to the activities" of the Bob Higgins Soccer Academy, but did not provide any details.
Mr Higgins, who has previously denied any wrongdoing, was cleared of sexual abuse charges in 1992, but faces fresh allegations.
The BBC has been unable to contact him for comment.
Elsewhere, Rangers Football Club has confirmed a former youth coach was sacked following an allegation of inappropriate behaviour towards a teenage player.
Gordon Neely, who died two years ago, was a youth coach at the Glasgow club in the 1980s when police were contacted over the claims made by the player. The club said he had been "dismissed immediately".
Dyfed Powys Police has become the latest police force to announce an investigation into abuse allegations and there are now 20 forces looking into reports, including three of the four Welsh forces.
The Offside Trust says it is open to working with other sports and schools in the long term.
On speaking out, an emotional Steve Walters said on Monday: "It's the best thing I have ever done now.
"I have carried a 100 ton weight on my back for years and years and that's gone now - there is a light at the end of the tunnel."
Mr Walters called on more high-profile players to back their campaign.
"It's happening everywhere down the years," he said. "The bravado in football has to stop.
"We need more help, publicity and support from high-profile sports people."
On Sunday, FA head of equality and safeguarding Sue Ravenlaw told BBC Radio 5 live that the scale of the historical abuse allegations was the biggest challenge for the FA, alongside reassuring young people that football is safer today.
Pointing to the safeguarding regulations that have been in place over the past 10 to 15 years, she said: "I would like to think the culture has changed."
However, she said the scale of the abuse allegations was a "massive wake-up call" for club owners and directors to do the right thing at every level.


To the outrage of Donald Trump and his supporters, the FBI says it has found no evidence of criminality in a newly-discovered trove of emails linked to Hillary Clinton.

With election day in touching distance, late last month FBI director James Comey said the bureau was investigating new emails potentially connected to its investigation into Mrs Clinton's private email server.
He has since faced a backlash from leading Democrats, with President Obama saying investigations should not operate on "innuendo" and the party's leader in the US Senate, Harry Reid, even suggesting Mr Comey may have broken the law.
There was little sign that US voters would see a conclusion before the final vote.
But now, in another letter, Mr Comey has effectively concluded they have found nothing new. And Mr Trump has made his displeasure clear.
"You can't review 650,000 emails in eight days," Mr Trump told a rally in Michigan.
"Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it and now it's up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on 8 November."
Several computing experts, though, say otherwise.
"That's taking a rather naive view of it," the University of Surrey's Adam Woodward said of Mr Trump's claim. "The investigators don't go through each email manually."
The emails themselves were found on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Mr Weiner, a former congressman, is subject to a separate FBI investigation.
Details about the fresh FBI inquiry remain scant. Several reports say that the emails discovered were simply duplicates of ones already examined.
In the latest letter, Mr Comey said investigators had "reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State", leaving open the possibility they were still looking into some of the emails.
For Steven Murdoch, a research fellow at the University of London, the key word is "review".
"It doesn't mean they have been read," he said, adding that privacy considerations and the sheer volume of data would have been prohibitive.
Despite the seemingly intimidating size of the email cache, there are several ways they could have been narrowed down, experts say, such as using the to and from field to determine which messages came from Mrs Clinton, filtering out duplicate emails, or using search parameters.
Dr Murdoch compared the process to how officials might root through vast amounts of court documents.
Using these techniques, it is unlikely there would have been many emails investigators would have to read with their own eyes.
"Very quickly you would find that the haystack becomes the needle," said Dr Woodward.
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden offered a few more tips to the authorities on how they might go about their search.
Mr Snowden suggested they may have used hashing, which would involve coding the two sets of emails into a shorter expression of that data for quick comparison - something the authorities presumably had a head start on given the months of investigation into Mrs Clinton's email use.
Speaking anonymously, one former FBI expert told Wired he had processed much larger sets faster.
"We'd routinely collect terabytes of data in a search," he said. "I'd know what was important before I left the guy's house."
For the Errata Security blog, "the question isn't whether the FBI could review all those emails in eight days, but why the FBI couldn't have reviewed them all in one or two days. Or even why they couldn't have reviewed them before Comey made that horrendous announcement that they were reviewing the emails."


A woman jailed for trafficking Nigerian women into the UK to work in the sex industry has been ordered to pay back more than £21,000.

Lizzy Idahosa, 26, was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2014 after being found guilty of trafficking.
A confiscation order for £21,905 has been granted at Cardiff Crown Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The money must be paid back within 28 days or she faces a further nine month prison sentence being imposed.
During the original trial, the jury heard the trafficked women worked in brothels - including in  Cardiff and Swansea - to repay Idahosa £50,000 for travel from Nigeria and false documents.
Both victims, who could not be named for legal reasons, said that before travelling to London on the promise of a better life, they had been subjected to "juju" rituals to make them afraid of disobeying her.
Idahosa was also found guilty of inciting prostitution and money laundering.
Following the confiscation order, Gemma Williams, from Immigration Enforcement's Financial Investigation Unit, said:  "Idahosa was prepared to take advantage of her victims' vulnerability and desperation for her own financial gain, but her greed has not paid off.
"In addition to her hefty prison sentence, she has now been ordered to pay back money she took from her victims."


Nick Sharratt, famous for illustrating the Tracy Beaker books, is teaching young Syrian refugees how to express themselves through drawings.

2 December 2016 Last updated at 07:15 GMT
Nick says drawing can be a wonderful tool, '...especially for children that have been through terrible traumas and difficult situations.'
He headed to Lebanon, a country where lots of people have fled to since fighting began in Syria, to teach kids his craft.
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Ahead of the first debate on the EU referendum on 26 May, we asked for your thoughts and views in video, using your mobile.

26 May 2016 Last updated at 09:46 BST
The debate - the first ahead of the 23 June poll - is aimed at young voters.
You've told us whether you're voting to leave or remain - in or out  - and about the issues of concern to you ahead of the referendum to decide Britain's future in Europe.
Produced by Stephen Fottrell.


Barcelona are expected to name former Athletic Bilbao boss Ernesto Valverde as their new head coach on Monday.

Former Barca forward Valverde announced last week that he was leaving Athletic after four years in charge.
The 53-year-old will replace Luis Enrique, who revealed in March that he would leave the club at the end of his three-year contract.
Barcelona gave Enrique a winning send-off as they beat Alaves 3-1 to win the Copa del Rey on Saturday.
The club will hold a board meeting at 13:00 BST on Monday before President Josep Maria Bartomeu speaks to the media at 18:00 BST.
Valverde spent two seasons at Barcelona as a player from 1988-1990, scoring eight goals in 22 matches.
The Spaniard lead Athletic Bilbao to seventh place in La Liga this season, while Barcelona finished second behind Real Madrid.


Almost 20 tonnes of timber seized by the UK Border Force will be used in a major conservation project in Belfast.

Instead of being destroyed, the timber will re-deck the HMS Caroline, a World War One ship which is being restored in a Â£14.5m project.
The endangered Latin American cedar has been heavily exploited and is subject to import controls to protect it.
The timber was offered to the National Museum of the Royal Navy, which passed it onto the restoration project.
It will mean a saving of about Â£100,000.
HMS Caroline saw action in the 1916 Battle of Jutland - one of the the last major sea battles of WW1.
The ship has been in Belfast since 1924 where it was used as a training vessel and is home to the Northern Ireland Royal Navy Reserve.
The ship will open to the public in the summer of 2016, in time for the centenary of the battle.


A man has been charged with murder after a woman was stabbed to death in a car park.

Joshua Stimpson, 25, of Wouldham High Street, Rochester, appeared before magistrates in Medway.
Molly McLaren died in the dockside area of Maritime Way, Chatham, from injuries "consistent with a stabbing" on Thursday, Kent Police said.
Ms McLaren, who was in her 20s, and Mr Stimpson were known to each other.
The force said the case had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
At Medway Magistrates' Court, Mr Stimpson was remanded to appear before Maidstone Crown Court on Monday.


The suspended chief executive of the NHS patients' watchdog in Wales has been sacked, it has been confirmed.

Tony Rucinski was suspended from the Â£90,000-a-year role by the Board of Community Health Councils (CHC) in February 2016.
No reason has been given publicly for his suspension or sacking.
The Welsh Conservatives raised concerns over a lack of transparency in the case. Dr Rucinski said he cannot comment for legal reasons.
The Welsh Government said it was a matter for the CHC board.
Opposition AMs have previously criticised the lack of information given by the board and the Welsh Government about Mr Rucinski's lengthy suspension.
In a statement, the board's acting chief executives Alyson Thomas and Clare Jenkins said: "We can confirm that the employment of Dr Tony Rucinski as the chief executive officer of the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales has now been terminated.
"It would be inappropriate for us to make any further comment on an internal HR matter."
In response to a Freedom of Information request, the board said the bill for extra salary payments to other staff to cover for Dr Rucinski while he was suspended, stands at Â£58,135.
The organisation describes itself as the "independent voice of patients" in Wales.
It and the seven CHCs it oversees had an annual budget in 2015-16 of Â£3.8m.
Dr Rucinski was appointed as chief executive of the board in a newly-created role in July 2015.
At the time, he told BBC Wales he had been "put in place to make things happen" but was suspended seven months later.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "Dr Rucinski's sacking is the latest episode on a worrying journey towards the total dismemberment of Community Health Councils and the removal of a vital plank of scrutiny."
"The Welsh Government's lack of communication to AMs and the public throughout this protracted case shows their outright disdain for the vital role Community Health Councils play in holding ministers to account."
He said Health Secretary Vaughan Gething's "silence" on the issue had been "deafening".
Some 18 months on from the initial suspension "we are still left waiting for answers," he said.
"This is not the transparent democracy once envisaged by Rhodri Morgan," added Mr Davies.
The Welsh Government is currently considering replacing Community Health Councils and setting up one national body.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "This is wholly an internal matter for the CHC board, not the Welsh Government."


Peterborough United manager Grant McCann has not ruled out re-signing former Posh forward Paul Taylor.

Taylor, 28, is training with McCann's side after being out of the game for a year since leaving Ipswich.
"He hasn't really done much apart from play five-a-side with his mates, but he looked good in training," McCann told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"His fitness is nowhere near where it needs to be, but he hasn't looked out of place in front of the boys."
Taylor and McCann played alongside each other at Posh in the Championship before the former's £1.5m move to Ipswich in 2012.
However, the he only made seven league starts in three seasons at Portman Road and had loan spells at Posh, Rotherham and Blackburn.
"I'm open to all things, especially for someone like Paul Taylor," said McCann.
"[Assistant manager] Lee Glover had never seen him before and the first thing he said was 'wow, if you get that boy fit he could be special'.
"He's only 28, he hasn't lost his pace, he's still got that turn that sends defenders the wrong way every time he receives the ball, he's a strong boy and a good character around the training ground.
"But at the minute he's solely focusing on getting fit. I've told him I'll try to involve him as much as I can in some of the pre-season games and we'll take it from there."


A 21-year-old man was seriously injured after falling from a balcony during a music concert in Portsmouth.

American rock band A Day To Remember had been onstage for about 30 minutes when the incident happened just after 22:00 GMT.
In a statement, Portsmouth Guildhall said the man appeared to dive off the circle, landing in the stalls.
The man was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where his condition is described as serious.
Fans at the concert said the band stopped playing immediately and it was announced the concert was over.
Following the incident, the band tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the person who was injured at the show.
"Sorry we had to cut the set short due to the circumstances."


A man has died and three others have been injured after a disturbance outside a football ground in the east end of Glasgow.

Police were called to an incident at the Shettleston Juniors football ground in Shettleston Road at about 00:35.
A 21st birthday party function had been held at the club earlier.
Four men were taken to hospital. One of them, aged 24, died a short time after admission. The death is being treated as "suspicious".
The other three men discharged themselves from Glasgow Royal Infirmary after being treated for serious injuries.
Det Insp Martin Fergus said: "We are currently viewing CCTV and carrying out door-to-door inquiries in order to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident.
"We know that there had been a 21st birthday party function at the club and I would appeal to anybody who was at the function, or knew of anybody attending the function, to please contact us.
"It is clear that this disturbance took place in the street, therefore if you saw or heard anything, no matter how trivial you may think it is, it is vital that we speak to you."
He added: "I also urge anyone who was passing by the football ground at around 0030 hrs this morning and saw anything suspicious to contact police immediately."


A cat who inadvertently sailed across the sea from the Isle of Wight to Dorset has been reunited with her owners after five weeks away from home.

Dolly disappeared from her home in Cowes on the Isle of Wight but turned up in a Poole marina.
She was reunited with owner Debs Murphy-Latham and daughters Natasha, 10, and Annabelle, 7, earlier.
Ms Murphy-Latham said: "It's just so brilliant. She's a real member of our family."
She received a phone call on Saturday morning that the missing moggie had been found on the mainland and believes Dolly may have hitched a ride on a cruiser moored up at Cowes and "taken herself off for Christmas and the new year".
She described stowaway Dolly, who the family obtained from the Cats Protection League in Ryde, as "such a fantastic little character".
"I'd quite like her to stay put this time so she might be spending a few weeks indoors just until she remembers where she lives.
"Fortunately because she was chipped the people who found her were able to take her to their vets and get her scanned and they were then able to contact me."
The three-year-old black-and-white cat was picked up by the family at Southampton's Red Jet terminal.
Ms Murphy-Latham said: "My daughters will have to peel themselves off the ceiling, they are so excited to have her back."
She said Dolly had "gone 'Awol' quite a few times before but it has always been on the island".


Crystal Palace completed the signing of Joe Ledley from Celtic but with only minutes to spare before the closure of the January transfer window.

The 27-year-old midfielder was one of
Palace announced that Ledley had signed "for an undisclosed fee, subject to final confirmation from the Premier League."
He penned a three-and-a-half year deal at Selhurst Park.
Ledley had been offered a new deal at Celtic Park, with his current contract running out this summer.
Tony Pulis tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager
And Celtic preferred to sell now rather than allow him to leave for nothing and accepted a bid from the London club.
Ledley had trained with Celtic in the morning before heading to the south of England.
He said: "It's been a whirlwind day and I am just looking forward to a new challenge.
"It's been a fantastic few years at Celtic, but I spoke to manager Neil Lennon and made my decision to come down."
Palace also secured the signatures of Blackpool winger Tom Ince, Blackburn Rovers defender Scott Dann, Southampton midfielder Jason Puncheon and Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.
Scottish striker Stephen Dobbie was allowed to return to Blackpool on loan in exchange for Ince.
Ledley was looking forward to working under Palace manager Tony Pulis.
"He tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager," said the Welshman.
Ledley moved to Glasgow under freedom of contract in 2010, following six years at hometown club Cardiff City.
He helped Celtic win three league titles and last year's Scottish Cup.
The Wales international was on target in Wednesday's 4-0 win over Kilmarnock, taking his tally for the season to five goals.
His former club said in a website statement: "Everyone at Celtic would like to thank Joe for his fantastic contribution to the club over the past three-and-a-half years and we wish him every success in the future."


When the decision was taken to deploy HMS Illustrious to the Philippines it was patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia.

It was planned for Britain's only working aircraft carrier to spend two weeks more in the Indian Ocean before turning for home.
All being well, Lusty - as the ship is affectionately known- would have arrived back in Portsmouth on 13 December.
So, for most of the 950 people on board, the order to go to the assistance of those affected by Typhoon Haiyan meant a difficult phone call back home.
Hundreds of plans for a family Christmas were cancelled at a stroke as the crew were told they weren't going to be home until early January.
Lieutenant Commander Richie Hewitt felt it more than most. The ship's navigator has just become a father for the first time.
"When I tell my son why I missed his first Christmas, I will tell him it's because the people of the Philippines needed our help," he tells me stoically, from his cabin near the bridge.
Having flown home to witness the birth of baby Oliver in Devon, Lt Cdr Hewitt re-boarded the ship in Singapore and has since then been plotting its route past Malaysia to the western islands of the Philippines.
The partners of navy officers get used to the separation he tells me, as he flicks through some pictures of a smiling Oliver on a tablet computer.
"We've got emails and phone calls - when they work", he says with a rueful shrug.
The fact that this time they were responding to a clear humanitarian emergency had, he said, made it easier for families to understand.
The latest estimates are that more than 5,000 people died and almost 4.5 million lost their homes
On board HMS Illustrious is 500 tonnes of aid, most of it bought in a frenetic three-day shopping spree in Singapore.
There are 100 tonnes of rice, plastic sheeting and water containers. Some items have a very British feel: 5,000 tins of pineapple, 9,840 tins of sardines and 10,080 tins of corned beef.
On the way from Singapore the crew have been working in teams in the huge hangar, putting together family-sized bundles of food and supplies which can be carried beneath helicopters.
Just over two weeks since the typhoon struck, most of the worst hit urban areas like Tacloban are now receiving reasonable amounts of assistance.  The focus of HMS Illustrious' efforts will be to reach places that have so far received very little.
"We're going to the western islands of the Philippines," Abigail Perry from the Department for International Development told me.
"What we know is that some assistance has already been provided  in this area - but we are concerned that there are some isolated communities that have received very minimal assistance."
As HMS Illustrious arrived off the coast of the Philippines it met up with the destroyer HMS Daring.
Daring was one of the first to respond to the typhoon and has spent two weeks providing emergency assistance.
With HMS Illustrious much better equipped for handling large quantities of aid, HMS Daring now leaves the Philippines and will head to Japan.
"The utility of a ship is that we can get out to these outlying islands and really help them." Angus Essenhigh, the commander of HMS Daring, told me.  His crew of 250 men and women have been delivering much needed supplies both by helicopter and by sea.
"On the mainland we are seeing a lot of the service provisions returning to normal, power is being restored and roofs are going on.
It's expected that it will take two or three weeks for HMS Illustrious to deliver all of its load. Only then will the crew begin their much delayed journey home.


Ricky Burns captured the vacant WBO inter-continental lightweight title with an 11th-round stoppage of Josh King in Liverpool.

The former WBO super-featherweight and lightweight champion had lost three of his previous four bouts, but showed his experience in the closing stages.
Burns struggled to make his superiority tell in the first half of the fight.
However, the Scot floored King with a stinging body shot in the 11th and the Australian failed to beat the count.


The work of a legendary fashion photographer and film-maker is to go on show in Falkirk.

Fabrizio Gianni photographed stars for some of the world's top fashion magazines and was Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
Having lived and worked in Milan, Paris, Tokyo and New York, Mr Gianni now lives in Falkirk with his wife.
The first ever exhibition of his work opens in the town on Friday.
Fantasia, the collection at the Falkirk Community Trust's Park Gallery, focuses on the Italian's work for fashion magazines such as Elle, Vogue, GQ and Harper's Bazaar, with star subjects including Anthony Hopkins, Sir Ben Kingsley and Keanu Reeves.
Mr Gianni told BBC Scotland that when he was asked to put the exhibition together, his collection of photographs had almost completely "disappeared" after being left in his cellar in Falkirk for 20 years.
He said: "The editor in chief of Vogue in France phoned me up and asked me to collaborate to do a book, and I said, OK, if I can find the photos. So I went down to the cellar and I found all this mould.
"All of my photos were in a cellar, all mouldy and ruined.
"Some of them were boxed when I moved from Milan, and remained boxed for 20 years.
"I basically lost 10 years of pictures. Only a few remained from the 1970s, most of what I have is from the 1980s and 1990s.
"I said to them, why don't we do a book of mouldy pictures? We could call it 'Saved from the Bin'."
Despite having worked at the top of the photographic trade, Mr Gianni insists that he is not an artist, but a good professional practicing his craft.
He said: "Gillian from the Falkirk Community Trust called me about doing the exhibition.
"I said, I accept, but you are never to portray me as an artist, because I was a good professional, that's all.
"You think, right away, what can I do to make those clothes become human, real? The designer doesn't think of this, they probably hate the women!
"Putting a normal woman into these so-called beautiful dresses - that's the difficult part.
"You take this girl - a young, beautiful girl, with skin like a peach - you put the clothes on them and put them in a beautiful location, in wonderful light at the moment of the day when the light is fantastic, and you do the photo.
"This is craft, not art."
Mr Gianni was assistant director on the classic "Spaghetti Western" film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and is credited with styling Clint Eastwood's famously nameless character.
He said: "I was shooting a film in Munich as assistant director, and Sergio Leone came in and said to me that he wanted to do a Western. I thought, 'this guy is cuckoo, doing a Western in Italy?'
"It was an experience - he would go around terrorising people. It was a mix of being scared to not work with him any more, but being scared of the man himself.
"He was convinced he was an artist, he was convinced he was a genius. No-one could argue with that."
Admission to the exhibition at The Park Gallery at Callendar House in Falkirk is free between 10:00 and 17:00, Monday to Saturday.


Former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of historic child sexual abuse against four boys in the 1980s.

The 63-year-old appeared via videolink from prison at Chester Crown Court.
Mr Bennell had already denied eight of the offences but entered not guilty pleas again as 12 further charges were added.
He was a youth scout and junior football coach associated with a number of clubs, most notably Crewe Alexandra.
The charges include 14 counts of indecent assault, five counts of serious sexual assault and one count of attempted serious sexual assault.
The alleged offences took place between 1980 and 1987 and involved four complainants who were boys under 16 at the time.
The case was adjourned to 3 July when a hearing will take place at Liverpool Crown Court.
Judge Roger Dutton said a trial was likely to be listed for January in Liverpool.
Mr Bennell was remanded in custody.


Queens Park Rangers have reappointed Ian Holloway as manager, 10 years after he left the Championship club.

The 53-year-old, previously in charge of the R's between 2001 to 2006, has agreed a two-and-a-half-year contract at Loftus Road.
Holloway, who led Blackpool and Crystal Palace to the Premier League, replaces Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who was sacked on Saturday after 11 months in charge.
He said he was "honoured, privileged and proud" to return to Rangers.
QPR are 17th in the table, six points above the relegation zone, after sacking former Chelsea and Netherlands striker Hasselbaink.
He oversaw just 13 wins from his 47 games in charge.
Holloway has been working as a television pundit since being sacked by Millwall in March 2015.
"It's a huge moment for me and I am delighted to be back here," said the former Bristol Rovers, Plymouth and Leicester boss.
"I feel like I'm back home now and I can't wait to get started.
"Does anyone know this club better than me? Probably not. Has it changed much? Maybe, but I know what it means to everyone out there.
"People would die for this club. My job is to try to help this squad improve and create an environment that the players can succeed in."
In his first spell in charge of QPR, Holloway led the club to promotion to the Championship in 2004 after missing out in the third-tier play-off final in the previous campaign.
He also had to contend with off-field issues at Loftus Road when Rangers were put into administration in April 2001.
Former midfielder Holloway, who spent five years at the club in the 1990s during his playing career, was suspended by then chairman Gianni Paladini in February 2006 because of speculation linking him to the Leicester job.
He joined Plymouth four months later after Rob Kelly became Leicester boss. Holloway eventually had a spell in charge of the Foxes in 2007-08 but the club were relegated to the third tier for the first time in their history.
Holloway will begin his second spell in charge of QPR at home to fifth-placed Norwich City on Saturday, 19 November.
Details of Holloway's backroom staff are yet to be announced.
Hasselbaink's assistant, Dave Oldfield, had been supervising first-team training since the Dutchman's departure.


Media shine a spotlight on China's notoriously tough university entrance exam as millions of students prepare for the two-day test.

The national college entrance exam, known as the "Gaokao", will start on Saturday.
Students, along with their parents, feel intense pressure at this time of the year because success in this exam allows them to enter prestigious colleges, papers say.
The Beijing Times report that metal detectors will be used at examination centres to prevent students from cheating. Police officials have also been deployed to deal with "sudden incidents" of cheating, it adds.
Noting the huge pressure faced by the students, an article in the Hubei Daily describes the examination as a unique "growing up ceremony", but it also urges society "not to treat it as a war against the enemy".
According to a College Enrolment Report released by Education Online, the number of students taking the Gaokao this year is close to 9.4 million, which marks a slight increase after falling for five consecutive years since 2008.
Despite the marginal increase this year, papers are still worried over the falling numbers.
Chen Zhiwen, chief editor of the Education Online, attributes the falling number of students to the decline in China's birth rate, the People's Daily says.
An article in the 21st Century Business Herald notes that in addition to the falling birth-rate, some students' desire to study abroad has also contributed to the decline.
Amid a backdrop of pressure and the decline in numbers, a commentary in the Beijing News suggests a change in the current centralised college admission system.
It calls for a direct school admission system with colleges having more autonomy in their assessment methods instead of solely relying on the gaokao results.
Moving on to other news, media analyse China-Arab relations as President Xi Jinping urges better co-operation with the Arab world.
Mr Xi outlined a blueprint for greater co-operation with Arab states on Thursday at the sixth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Co-operation Forum (CASCF) held in Beijing.
The China Daily says that "the potential for Sino-Arab collaboration goes far beyond energy deals".
It notes that infrastructure construction, trade, nuclear energy, space and satellite industries have been included in the blueprint.
"Besides proposed consultations about a free-trade zone and Arab participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Mr Xi's blueprint also took into account personnel training and art exchanges. Such efforts will put relations on a broader and more solid basis," it says.
An Huihou, China's former ambassador to Egypt, tells the Beijing News that Arab countries have started "looking east" during the last 10 years as "the centre of international politics and economic have shifted" from the West to Asia Pacific.
"Washington's Middle East policies are unpopular and have hurt the interests of the Arab nations. Arab nations are also attracted by China's high growth. China-Arab friendly co-operation is beneficial to both parties," he says.
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Paris St-Germain lost Edinson Cavani to injury as they moved three points behind leaders Nice by thumping Rennes.

The striker seemed to strain a thigh in the process of lobbing in his team's second goal shortly before half-time.
Cavani had played a part in PSG's first goal, heading against the bar before Gelson Fernandes turned the ball into his own net.
Adrien Rabiot's powerful swerving shot made it 3-0, and Marco Verratti then volleyed in Hatem Ben Arfa's cross.
Unai Emery's side reduced the gap between themselves and Nice, who fell to a surprise 1-0 defeat at Caen earlier on Sunday.
Match ends, Paris Saint Germain 4, Rennes 0.
Second Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 4, Rennes 0.
Thiago Motta (Paris Saint Germain) hits the left post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Maxwell with a cross.
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Thiago Silva tries a through ball, but Jesé is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ángel Di María (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Verratti.
Attempt blocked. Jesé (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago Silva.
Goal!  Paris Saint Germain 4, Rennes 0. Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hatem Ben Arfa.
Substitution, Rennes. Adama Diakhaby replaces Paul-Georges Ntep.
Hand ball by Ángel Di María (Paris Saint Germain).
Corner,  Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Joris Gnagnon.
Attempt blocked. Jesé (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ángel Di María.
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Ángel Di María tries a through ball, but Jesé is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Kamil Grosicki (Rennes) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right misses to the left. Assisted by Nicolas Janvier following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jesé (Paris Saint Germain).
Yoann Gourcuff (Rennes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Paul-Georges Ntep (Rennes).
Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Thiago Silva following a set piece situation.
Attempt missed. Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ángel Di María with a cross following a set piece situation.
Ángel Di María (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ludovic Baal (Rennes).
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Hatem Ben Arfa replaces Lucas Moura.
Goal!  Paris Saint Germain 3, Rennes 0. Adrien Rabiot (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ángel Di María.
Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Ángel Di María.
Attempt blocked. Adrien Rabiot (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ángel Di María.
Foul by Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain).
Pedro Mendes (Rennes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rennes. Nicolas Janvier replaces Ramy Bensebaini.
Foul by Jesé (Paris Saint Germain).
Joris Gnagnon (Rennes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Gelson Fernandes.
Attempt blocked. Jesé (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Verratti.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Thiago Motta replaces Blaise Matuidi.
Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain).
Ramy Bensebaini (Rennes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Kamil Grosicki.
Corner,  Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Ramy Bensebaini.
Substitution, Rennes. Kamil Grosicki replaces Pedro Henrique.
Corner,  Rennes. Conceded by Serge Aurier.


Police on the Isles of Scilly say they have had applications from around the world for a vacant post.

The job advert on Facebook went viral and applications for the role of constable have come from as far as Thailand and Australia.
The job was described as "possibly the most enviable policing post in the UK or even the world".
Sgt Colin Taylor, who posted the advert, said: "The phones were red-hot at the police station all weekend,"
Crimes between March 2014 and February 2015 in the islands, which have a population of 2,200, included 24 cases of violence, sexual offences, criminal damage and arson.
There were three cases of stolen bicycles last year, but with only five miles of roads, there is not far to go.
Sgt Taylor admitted he may have "overcooked" the job advert, and pointed out that it was only open to Devon and Cornwall Police officers and that applications closed on 3 April.
Abilities required for the post included: "The resolve to issue a parking ticket to your spouse so tactfully so as not find dinner in the dog thereafter."
Sgt Taylor said: "Commiserations go to hopefuls who contacted us from Ukraine, Texas, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Philippines, Thailand, Spain, Greece, loads from Italy, Australia, Germany, Portugal, South Africa and a smattering from England, Scotland and Ireland."
In one incident this year police were baffled after a fried egg was left at the scene of a break-in into a shed containing footballs.


If you walked past a newspaper stand, or flicked through a news app, this morning then you would have been left with that impression.
Well the short answer, if you're in a hurry, is no.
But something truly exciting is happening - the field of immunotherapy is coming of age.
It will not be a universal "cure" but immunotherapy is fast becoming a powerful new weapon alongside chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
Your immune system is your body's internal guardian and protector as it purges anything that is not "you".
It has a series of checks and brakes that prevent the immune system turning on healthy tissue (this is what goes wrong in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis).
But cancer is a corrupted version of healthy tissue and can masquerade as normal to dodge our immune defences.
It performs the chemical equivalent of shouting "move along, nothing to see here".
And it does this by producing proteins on its surface that perform a chemical handshake with immune system cells to switch them off.
The immunotherapy drugs that have got people excited are like an oven-mitt that covers one of the hands, preventing the handshake.
The field has been developing for some time, but the explosion of front page newspaper headlines was triggered by data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
UK-led research showed that 60% of advanced melanoma skin cancers shrank when two immunotherapies were given in combination. The dual treatment stopped some of these deadliest cancers progressing for nearly a year.
The ASCO announcement came two days after another immunotherapy trial showed some lung cancer patients had their life expectancy doubled by immunotherapy drugs.
Smaller trials in a wide range of other cancers have also been presented - suggesting immunotherapy will have a role in many tumour-types.
Exciting? Certainly. A cure? No.
As Prof Karol Sikora, the dean of the University of Buckingham's medical school, told the BBC: "You would think cancer was being cured tomorrow.
"It's not the case, we've got a lot to learn."
So what are the words of caution?
For starters, these drugs do not work equally in everyone. Some people do spectacularly well, some do ok, and some do not respond at all.
The reason why is still unclear. Are cancers susceptible during just a short window in their development? Is it down to the type or quantity of proteins the tumours produce on their surface? We don't yet know.
Also, the therapies are likely to be very expensive, which means targeting the drugs on those who will respond will be key.
Long-term side effects are another a big uncertainty. Will the change to the immune system increase the risk of autoimmune diseases? So far the side effects seem to appear only during treatment, but long-term follow of patients who do respond has not taken place.
The research outside of melanoma and lung cancer is also still at a very early stage.
This is not a sudden breakthrough, or even the first set of really promising immunotherapy data.
The melanoma trial used a combination of two drugs - ipilimumab and nivolumab.
Ipilimumab is already recommended as the primary treatment for advanced melanoma in the UK.
So what we are seeing is a series of advances in a field that holds huge promise for the future. And that's exciting without throwing in the "cure" word.


Cinema is a "boys' club" run by male decision-makers reluctant to entrust women with big-budget films, a leading female film director has claimed.

Agnieszka Holland, whose films include the Oscar-nominated Europa Europa, also claims that male directors are forgiven more readily if their films are flops.
This compares to female directors, she went on, who must spend "five years in [movie] hell after just one failure".
The Polish director made her comments at the BFI Southbank in central London.
The Thameside venue is currently running a season of Holland's films as part of the 14th Kinoteka festival of Polish film.
Holland, whose 2011 film In Darkness was also nominated for an Oscar, said female directors suffered because their "demanding" profession was "difficult to combine with a family life".
She also claimed they faced more pressure to succeed from critics and festival programmers, compared to their male counterparts.
The people at the top of the industry, she told an audience on Tuesday, "don't believe women have the capacity to make blockbusters."
Holland also highlighted the imbalances in salaries that saw "male A-listers [being] paid twice as much as female A-listers - if not more".
The director's comments come in the wake of an ongoing debate over women being paid less than men in film, sport and other fields.
In January a report by the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that just 9% of Hollywood's highest grossing films in 2015 were directed by women.
Another report issued the following month said that Hollywood has an "epidemic of invisibility" for women, minorities and LGBT people.
Holland, the current chair of the European Film Academy, has worked in recent years on such US TV shows as The Wire, House of Cards and the New Orleans-based Treme.
She said that television was a more welcoming environment to female directors, telling host Mark Lawson she had been chosen to direct the pilot episode of Treme ahead of Spike Lee.


The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.
The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.
Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project.
Europe's law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments.
Victoria Baines, from Europol's cybercrime centre, said that at present criminals were more likely to pursue traditional routes to obtain firearms.
She added, however: "But as time goes on and as this technology becomes more user friendly and more cost effective, it is possible that some of these risks will emerge."
Defense Distributed is headed by Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old law student at the University of Texas.
Mr Wilson said: "I think a lot of people weren't expecting that this could be done."
3D printing has been hailed as the future of manufacturing.
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
The idea is that as the printers become cheaper, instead of buying goods from shops, consumers will instead be able to download designs and print out the items at home.
But as with all new technologies, there are risks as well as benefits.
The gun was made on a 3D printer that cost $8,000 (£5,140) from the online auction site eBay.
It was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS plastic - only the firing pin was made from metal.
Mr Wilson, who describes himself as a crypto-anarchist, said his plans to make the design available were "about liberty".
He told the BBC: "There is a demand of guns - there just is. There are states all over the world that say you can't own firearms - and that's not true anymore.
"I'm seeing a world where technology says you can pretty much be able to have whatever you want. It's not up to the political players any more."
Asked if he felt any sense of responsibility about whose hands the gun might fall into, he told the BBC: "I recognise the tool might be used to harm other people - that's what the tool is - it's a gun.
"But I don't think that's a reason to not do it - or a reason not to put it out there."
To make the gun, Mr Wilson received a manufacturing and seller's licence from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Donna Sellers, from the ATF, told BBC News that the 3D-printed gun, as long as it was not a National Firearms Act weapon (an automatic gun, for example), was legal in the US.
She said: "[In the US] a person can manufacture a firearm for their own use. However, if they engage in the business of manufacture to sell a gun, they need a licence."
Amid America's ongoing gun debate in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, US congressman Steve Israel recently called for a ban on 3D guns under the Undetectable Firearms Act.
Groups looking to tighten US gun laws have also expressed concern.
Leah Gunn Barrett, from New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, has said: "These guns could fall into the hands of people who should not have guns - criminals, people who are seriously mentally ill, people who are convicted of domestic violence, even children."
3D printing technology has already been used by some criminal organisations to create card readers - "skimmers" - that are inserted into bank machines.
Many law enforcement agencies around the world now have people dedicated to monitoring cybercrime and emerging technologies such as 3D printers.
Ms Baines from Europol said: "What we know is that technology proceeds much more quickly than we expect it to. So by getting one step ahead of the technological developments, we hope and believe we will be able to get one step ahead of the criminals as well."


An Indian Guinness World Record holder who attempted to cross a river suspended from a zip wire attached to his ponytail has died during the stunt.

Sailendra Nath Roy, 48, was performing the feat on the Teesta river in West Bengal when he suffered a heart attack.
Hundreds of spectators watched his last moments in horror.
In March 2011, Mr Roy was named a Guinness World Record holder for travelling the farthest distance on a zip wire using hair.
He worked as a driver for the police.
Mr Roy was trying to cross the Coronation Bridge over the Teesta river near Siliguri town suspended from a zip wire 600ft (180m) long at a height of 70ft (20m).
A large number of people had gathered on the bridge to watch the feat.
Witnesses said that Mr Roy appeared to make no progress after covering about 300ft (90m).
"He was desperately trying to move forward. He was trying to scream out some instruction. But no one could follow what he was saying. After struggling for 30 minutes he became still," said Balai Sutradhar, a photographer, who was covering the stunt.
Police said he was hanging for nearly 45 minutes before he was brought down.
Doctors at the hospital said he had suffered a "massive heart attack".
Mr Roy had arrived at the riverside on Sunday morning and set up the zip wire from the bridge with help from friends.
He was wearing a life jacket, but there were no doctors or emergency services on the spot.
Police said that Mr Roy had not got permission to do the stunt.
A friend, who preferred to remain anonymous, said: "His wife used to urge him to quit doing dangerous stunts. Mr Roy convinced her that crossing the Teesta river would be his last. Unfortunately, that became his last stunt."
In 2008, Mr Roy pulled the Darjeeling toy train with his ponytail.
And in 2007, his ponytail tied to a rope, he flew from one building to another in front of television cameras.


Jamie Roberts is looking forward to playing against Cardiff Blues for the first time since leaving in 2013.

Harlequins face the Welsh region in the European Champions Cup on Sunday.
The Wales and British and Irish Lions centre joined Harlequins in December after spending two seasons with Racing 92 in France.
"On a personal level it will be nice to play against my old team because I've never had a chance to do that before," Roberts told BBC Radio Wales.
"I'm looking forward to it.
"I'll come up against players I've played with at the club and players I've played with at international level, and I'm pretty good friends with a lot of those guys and it'll be a different experience and I'm looking forward to it."
Harlequins lead the Challenge Cup qualifying pool ahead of the Blues, who are nine points behind the Aviva Premiership club.
They beat the Blues 32-20 in November, when Roberts did not play because he was preparing to play for Cambridge in the Varsity match.
The return fixture comes two days before Wales coach Warren Gatland names his squad for the Six Nations championship, though Roberts says that will make no difference to his approach.
"It's a bit of a mini trial of sorts," said Roberts.
"But that's always in the back of your mind whenever you play - regardless of how close it is to the Six Nations - you're always in the shop window and never more so than in Europe.
"That's the same for the Cardiff Blues boys - I know they name the squad next week - so it's about putting in a good performance and putting your hand up for selection I suppose."
Sunday's match will see Roberts come up against Blues head coach Danny Wilson, who played a key role in his formative years as a junior player.
"He was my first coach when I played for Rumney RFC growing up, and he's a guy I have a huge amount of respect for," added Roberts.
"He's doing a good job in rebuilding that squad. He's a top bloke, and the players are responding to what he's trying to achieve on the field."


England's Georgia Hall shot a course record 64 at the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open in Abu Dhabi.

Hall shares second place with fellow English player, Holly Clyburn - after two rounds at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club.
The pair are three shots behind Iceland's Olafia Kristinsdottir, who added a 66 to her opening 65.
Dorset's Hall, who fired eight birdies to finish 10 under par, said: "I didn't think of my score at all, I was just trying to make birdie after birdie."
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