Two Pembrokeshire police officers left work early 126 times in three months, a jury has heard.

Timothy Pawlett, 52, from Haverfordwest and Gareth Clement, 55, from Crymych, are alleged to have left Fishguard port early or arrived late while still claiming full working hours.
It meant they had been overpaid a combined total of over £1,800.
They both deny a single charge of fraud and the trial at Swansea Crown Court continues.
Prosecuting, Nicholas Gedge told the court Mr Pawlett was secretly logged leaving his post early or arriving late 72 times between 1 November 2015 and 17 February 2016.
Mr Clement was said to have left early on 54 occasions.
In some instances they had left two hours early.
It meant Mr Pawlett had been overpaid £1,100 and Mr Clement £710.
The alarm was raised when their boss, Det Sgt Ian Hardy could not find either of the officers before their shifts had ended.
"He was a little curious," said Mr Gedge, especially when he found both had recorded completing their full shifts.
The following night he parked outside Fishguard harbour and saw Mr Clement driving away 40 minutes early.
He drove to Mr Pawlett's home and saw his car already parked outside, which meant he must have left 30 minutes early.
Det Sgt Hardy asked for a camera with automatic vehicle number plate recognition technology to be checked and discovered "numerous" examples of them leaving early.
After their arrests neither officer disputed the data.
Mr Clement said he had been having personal and family difficulties while Mr Pawlett said he had been suffering from anxiety and depression.


Rochdale's stadium announcer thought he was doing a fan a favour when he read out the number plate of a car with its headlights left on during Tuesday's 1-1 draw with Gillingham - little did he realise it belonged to one of the players.

The car in question belonged to Callum Camps, who was playing in Dale's midfield when the announcement was made during the first half.
If the 20-year-old was affected by the news, he did not let it show as he curled in a shot just before the break to put the home side ahead.
His goal was not enough to win the game, though, as John Egan's 77th-minute equaliser earned the visitors a point.
Camps revealed that one of the club's backroom staff came to the rescue, collecting his keys from the dressing room and switching off the lights.
"I was listening because the ball was out of play, and as soon as I heard the reg I was thinking that's my number plate," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I thought I'd blocked someone in, so I said to [team-mate] Jamie Allen: 'That's my car that' and he said: 'What?' I said again: 'That's my car they've just called out.'
"I looked over to [head of sports science] Kevin Gibbins and said: 'My car's just been read out, can you sort it out?'"


Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make losses of Russian troops in peacetime a secret.

The amendment bans information about the deaths of Russian forces "during special operations" in peacetime.
The Kremlin has consistently denied sending regular troops and armour to help rebels in eastern Ukraine.
But a new report from the US says Russia has been using training camps near the border as "launching points of Russia's war in Ukraine".
The study by the Atlantic Council, published on Thursday, claims to have tracked Russian involvement in the conflict using photographs, videos and satellite images posted online.
President Putin's move to ban information about peacetime military deaths comes amid fears of a fresh offensive by Russian-backed separatists.
Reuters reporters said they had observed this week Russia's army massing troops and weaponry - including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery - at a makeshift base in Kuzminsky, near the border with Ukraine.
The news agency said many of the vehicles had number plates and identifying marks removed, while servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues - similar to some unidentified forces seen in eastern Ukraine.
A ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk in February, but heavy fighting has continued in some areas since then.
Before the amendment was signed by Mr Putin on Wednesday, the loss of troops was a state secret only in wartime.
The decree gives no details of what is meant by "special operations".
For months there have been reports of secret burials of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
Earlier this month, Russian blogger Ruslan Leviyev said he had found three graves of Russian  officers killed by shelling in eastern Ukraine on 5 May.
Meanwhile the authors of the Atlantic Council report - including British weapons analyst Eliot Higgins - say satellite images have confirmed the movement of Russian troops and camp build-ups along the Ukrainian border.
They say Russian training camps are being used as "the staging ground" for military equipment and soldiers to be transported into Ukraine.
The most recent photograph analysed in the Atlantic Council report was taken in February.
The Kremlin has denied Western accusations that its forces are directly involved in combat, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are "volunteers".
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On Wednesday Russia's ambassador in Ukraine visited two men, who were captured by Kiev and accused of being elite Russian soldiers operating in the Luhansk region.
The Kremlin had demanded access to Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, complaining that their situation was being exploited as propaganda.
The pair were charged by Kiev with involvement in "terrorist activity", after apparently confirming in video statements that they were active Russian servicemen.
Moscow said they were not serving "at the moment they were detained".
But Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko told the BBC that the soldiers were proof that his country was engaged in a "real war" with Russia, rather than pro-Russian separatists.
He said Ukrainians should prepare for a Russian offensive in the coming months.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called for an end to snap exercises by Russia close to the Ukrainian border, and demanded Russia be "more transparent when it comes to their military activities".


The Philippine economy grew 6% year-on-year in the three months to September, slightly below forecasts but still leaving it on track to be one of Asia's fastest growing economies this year.

Arsenio Balisacan, the country's economic planning secretary, said the numbers were an encouraging sign of a steadily growing economy.
The Philippines is Southeast Asia's fifth largest economy.
The economy grew by 1.1% in the quarter from the previous three-month period.
That was also below expectations, and marked a slowdown from the 2% growth recorded in the three months to June.
However, Mr Balisacan said the latest gross domestic product figures made full-year growth of 6% likely, with even better prospects for the final quarter.
The country's services sector gave the economy a boost, together with investment demand and government spending - which Mr Balisacan said was in line with efforts to address spending bottlenecks.
Rahul Bajoria, emerging markets economist at Barclays, told the BBC there had been a pick-up in construction, transfers and weather-related income support from the government.
Since President Benigno Aquino came to power five years ago, the government says its infrastructure spending has tripled.
However, rail networks, ports, roads and airport developments have all faced delays, and poor infrastructure costs the economy an estimated $60m (Â£39.6m) a day.


David Cameron has ruled out making reparations for Britain's role in the historic slave trade and urged Caribbean countries to "move on".

The prime minister acknowledged that "these wounds run very deep" during his visit to Jamaica, where he faced calls to apologise from campaigners.
He said Britain's role in wiping slavery "off the face of our planet" should be remembered.
Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller said she had raised the issue in talks.
Addressing MPs in Jamaica's parliament, Mr Cameron said slavery was "abhorrent in all its forms".
He added: "I do hope that, as friends who have gone through so much together since those darkest of times, we can move on from this painful legacy and continue to build for the future."
Mr Cameron also announced £25m in British aid for a new Jamaican prison and a £300 million development package for the Caribbean which will provide grants for infrastructure projects, including roads and bridges.
He said his visit - the first by a British prime minister in 14 years - was to "reinvigorate" ties between the countries, and that he wanted to concentrate on future relations rather than centuries-old issues.
Mrs Simpson Miller said while she was "aware of the obvious sensitivities", Jamaica was "involved in a process under the auspices of the Caribbean Community [Caricom] to engage the UK on the matter".
During Mr Cameron's speech, a small group of protesters with placards that read "reparations now" gathered outside parliament.
For more than 200 years Britain was at the heart of a lucrative transatlantic trade in millions of enslaved Africans.
According to ship records it is estimated about 12.5 million people were transported as slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean - to work in often brutal conditions on plantations - from the 16th century until the trade was banned in 1807.
In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and raised the equivalent of £17bn in compensation money to be paid to 46,000 of Britain's slave-owners for "loss of human property". University College London has compiled a database of those compensated.
Among those listed is General Sir James Duff, who it is claimed is a first cousin six times removed of David Cameron. He was awarded compensation worth around £3 million in today's terms.
Others who received compensation include the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene, as well as distant relatives of Arts Council chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette and celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott.
The issue of former slave-owning nations compensating former colonies is a contentious one in the Caribbean, where national commissions have calculated the sums could run into trillions of dollars.
One suggestion has been that the money could be provided in the form of debt relief.
BBC News correspondent Elaine Dunkley, who specialises in African Caribbean social affairs, said: "There really has been an issue with reparation in Jamaica, we can't say that the reception there [to Mr Cameron's visit] has been universally warm.
"Correcting the wrongs of the past is not only costly but complicated and David Cameron has said that he doesn't feel reparation is the way forward in this case."
Mrs Simpson Miller told the United Nations in 2013 there should be "an international discussion in a non-confrontational manner" and its parliament had passed a motion backing reparations.
One Jamaican MP, Mike Henry, threatened to boycott Mr Cameron's speech at the country's parliament if he did not engage on the issue.
Campaigners also called on Mr Cameron to make a personal apology, saying one of his own ancestors was paid compensation for the loss of his slaves in 1834.
Bert Samuels, a member of Jamaica's National Commission on Reparations, told Television Jamaica "he needs to atone, to apologise personally and on behalf of his country".
Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of Caricom's reparations commission, wrote in an open letter in the Jamaica Observer that the UK must "play its part in cleaning up this monumental mess of Empire".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who lived in Jamaica for two years in his youth, said that, as prime minister, he would be ready to apologise for the slave trade.
Speaking at Labour's annual conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said it was "the most brutal part of our history and the history of Jamaica".
During his two-day visit, Mr Cameron revealed the UK will spend £25m on building a prison in Jamaica so that foreign criminals in the UK can be sent home to serve sentences in the Caribbean.
More than 600 Jamaican nationals are in UK jails but cannot be deported because of Jamaica's poor prison conditions.
Officials say the foreign aid-funded deal could save taxpayers £10m a year when transfers begin in 2020.
The Howard League for Penal Reform criticised the plan, saying it was "the wrong use of foreign aid" and would fail to address the real issue of overcrowding in British prisons.


A man who has denied murdering his partner has denied other charges relating to her death.

Natalie Hemming, 31, was last seen alive in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 1 May. She was found dead on 22 May.
Paul Hemming, 42, of Milton Keynes, pleaded not guilty at Luton Crown Court to preventing the lawful burial of her body and obstructing the coroner.
He remains in custody and is due to stand trial in October.
In July, Mr Hemming pleaded not guilty to murder, which is alleged to have taken place between 30 April and 4 May, at their home in Alderney Avenue, Newton Leys.
The body of the mother-of-three was found in a wood at Chandlers Cross in Hertfordshire, 30 miles away.


Bright young graduates from poorer backgrounds are increasingly unable to move to London, because of high housing costs, say researchers.

A study from the London School of Economics and the Sutton Trust says only 6% of graduates moving to London are originally from poorer areas.
Those moving to London after graduating are likely to be wealthier or to have parents already living in the capital.
The report warns of a growing barrier to social mobility.
The study warns that the pathway for young job-hunting graduates to move to the capital is now often blocked by unaffordable housing.
It says there are only two boroughs in London - Bexley and Barking and Dagenham - where average house prices are less than eight times the average income.
The researchers say that this is distorting the intake of young graduates into the capital's jobs market and locking out those without financial support from their families.
The biggest proportion of recent graduates moving into the London are those who have studied outside the capital but are originally from London and have moved back in with their parents, according to the study.
It means that among young graduates in London - with "young" classified as being up to the age of 34 - more are living with their parents than on their own.
And among those non-Londoners who have moved after graduation, an increasingly high proportion are from wealthier backgrounds. Fewer than one in 15 are from from poorest neighbourhoods.
In regional terms, only 2% coming to London are from the north-east England and 4% from the West Midlands. Among 20- to 34-year-olds, almost 70% of those "moving" to London are from families already in London and the South East.
The study indicates the population flow into London is predominantly among young people in their 20s.
But these graduates are now facing intense competition for somewhere to live. The study suggests the population in the capital is increasing more quickly than the housing stock, adding to the pressure on prices.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust education charity, said: "So many of our leading jobs are based in London, yet the current housing situation is making it increasingly difficult for graduates from less advantaged homes to move here.
"Our brightest young people deserve the same chances to reach the top of their professions or to be able to turn their talents into businesses whatever their background."
As well as the high cost of property and rent, he said, young graduates could also have to take unpaid internships, adding to the barriers to those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
As possible ways of tackling this "housing trap", the report suggests building "student-type" shared affordable housing and "factory built pre-fabricated housing" that could be built quickly and cheaply.
The pressure on housing has seen graduate recruiters offering their own support for housing.
From this year's graduate intake at Deloitte, 40 new recruits will move into apartments in the former athletes' village beside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Deloitte says that surveys of its young graduates found the lack of affordable accommodation in London to be a major concern.
It found "prohibitive" costs meant one in 20 of last year's graduate intake had to share a bedroom, while others were squeezed into communal living spaces that had been converted into extra bedrooms.


US President Barack Obama has declared an end to the financial crisis and pledged economic policies to benefit all Americans, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.

"Tonight, we turn the page," he said. "The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong."
In a speech devised to appeal to working families, Mr Obama outlined his strategy for "middle-class economics".
But the plans are unlikely to make it past a Republican-controlled Congress.
Mr Obama also reiterated his foreign policy objectives, saying that the US reserved the "right to act unilaterally" when hunting down terrorists.
America had supported Ukraine throughout its battle with pro-Russia separatists, leaving Russia "isolated, with its economy in tatters", he added.
In a speech which he described as more focused on values than policies, Mr Obama declared America had recovered after the worst recession since the Depression.
The president said he planned to build on this growth by providing working families with help in the form of sick and maternity leave and affordable childcare.
"Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?"
Arguing that the US had experienced its "fastest economic growth in over a decade", Mr Obama said: "The verdict is clear. Middle-class economics works."
Mr Obama's speech included plans to build a competitive economy by improving America's infrastructure and providing free access to community college.
At the weekend, the White House also pledged to close tax loopholes on large inheritances, raise capital gains tax on the richest earners from 23.8% to 28% and introduce new fees on US financial firms with assets about $50bn.
Some senior members of the Republican Party dismissed this as "class warfare".
Other plans outlined by the president include:
Mr Obama said he would not hesitate to veto any Republican bills that sought to unravel his healthcare, financial regulation or immigration reforms.
On foreign policy, he called on Congress to pass a resolution to authorise the use of force against the Islamic State militant group.
On nuclear talks with Iran, the president reiterated his belief that an agreement could be reached to prevent the country from gaining nuclear weapons, and said he would veto any new sanctions bill that undermined negotiations.
He also said that his decision to begin normalising relations with Cuba, after ties were severed in 1961, had the potential to "end a legacy of mistrust in our hemisphere".
"We are ending a policy that was long past its expiration date. When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new," he said.
Alan Gross, who was recently released after spending five years in a Cuban prison, was among Michelle Obama's guests to hear the president.
Mr Obama said that the US had successfully opposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine by imposing sanctions, adding: "It is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters".
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced the speech as an indication of what he said was the determination of the US to dominate international affairs.
Mr Lavrov said: "Obama's address yesterday shows that there's just one thing at the heart of [their] philosophy: 'We are number one'... It shows that the United States wants to dominate the world."
Most of this speech must be seen as essentially aspirational, given the Republican control of both houses of Congress - and their antipathy towards the president
So if this speech stands little chance of becoming legislative reality, what was it all about?
First of all legacy. This is a president who seems to be following Winston Churchill's maxim that history is written by the winners.
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Ending his address, Mr Obama said he was optimistic he could work with Congress, despite months of political gridlock.
"I have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I've had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol - to do what I believe is best for America," he said.
But consensus with the Republican Party on many of the issues he outlined is unlikely.
In their official rebuttal, Republican senator and rising star, Joni Ernst, said Americans had not seen solutions from Mr Obama, and criticised his health and immigration policies.
"Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare," she said.
The senator called on Mr Obama to work with Republicans on issues where they might have common ground - including a trade deal and tax code reform.


A gigantic 'fatberg' has been discovered deep down in the drains underneath the Welsh capital, Cardiff.

10 February 2015 Last updated at 16:05 GMT
It's thought to have been caused by a build up of cooking fats and oils that people have washed down their sinks.
This video was taken during an attempt to clear the sewer this month and shows a blockage roughly one metre wide.
The company that look after the drains in Wales has started a campaign to get people to think more about what they put down their sinks.
Although a 'fatberg' isn't dangerous for our health, blocked sewers can cause flooding in homes and communities.
It isn't the first time it has happened in the UK - last year a fatberg was discovered in West London.


Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his team are preparing for a "fight" in Sunday's "special" Premier League game at rivals Manchester United.

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The Reds go to Old Trafford fourth in the table and without a win in three matches, while Jose Mourinho's sixth-placed United side are unbeaten in 15.
Asked about the game's significance, Klopp said: "I hear it when I talk to different people.
"It's very, very big - but my players know their responsibilities."
Liverpool are eight points behind leaders Chelsea after Saturday's fixtures and their most recent match was a 1-0 defeat by Southampton in their EFL Cup semi-final first leg, which Klopp said they should have lost by more.
"Because of our last game it is like, 'oh my God, and now it's Manchester United' - but we will be competitive," added the 49-year-old German.
"There is a moment when you realise this is really different, but we will realise too that we are Liverpool, so let's show this.
"Everyone who wants to see a real fight for a result, yeah, watch it. It is a special game."
In-form United are five points behind Liverpool and last time out beat Hull 2-0 - their ninth victory in a row - in the other EFL Cup semi-final first leg.
"Nobody is nervous, everybody wants to play," said Mourinho.
"I am sure Jurgen is the same and Liverpool's players are the same, so let's make a big match. It is three points, plus the emotional side of it."
The 53-year-old Portuguese recently asked United fans to be more vocal at Old Trafford, and he repeated the sentiment when explaining his take on one of British football's most iconic fixtures.
"The fans understand the feeling better than I do - but I've been here for a few months and I understand the dimension of this rivalry," he said.
"Now it is just a question of them trying to give us extra in a match that for them means a little bit more. They have to make us feel that feeling."
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BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty
Manchester United and Liverpool will be looking to their game-changing players to shape the latest episode of this fierce rivalry.
United manager Mourinho will want Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to demonstrate once more the partnership - helped by the stabilising midfield influence of Michael Carrick - that they have shown so far this season while Liverpool counterpart Klopp will hope fit-again Phillipe Coutinho can give side his that extra dimension.
Two players who will also have a significant influence on who comes out on top will be United's Carrick and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who Klopp will hope is available to start after a heel injury.
Liverpool look more vulnerable without Henderson, who has grown into a mature and outstanding midfield anchor this season.
The likes of Ibrahimovic, Pogba and Coutinho will splash colours on the canvas - but the importance of more understated players like Carrick and Henderson cannot be underestimated on Sunday.
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BBC football expert and Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson
Manchester United got a 0-0 draw at Anfield in October in a game that was basically a Jose Mourinho masterpiece. His gameplan was to restrict Liverpool to relatively few chances - and it worked.
United will be far more ambitious in attack at Old Trafford, however, and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has some big decisions to make over the fitness of some of his players.
This is a massive game for both teams and I think it will end up with a point apiece.
Prediction: 1-1
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Mothers should be recognised on marriage certificates by law, a MP has said.

Neath MP Christina Rees's bill would give mothers of the bride and groom parity with their fathers.
Currently, in Wales and England, only the father's name is legally required.
Ms Rees said it was time to modernise marriage. The bill stands little chance of becoming law without government support, but she said cross-party support could lead to change.
"It's nearing the end of 2015 and, despite a few previous attempts to rectify this, we are still following this archaic tradition," she said.
"The recognition of women in society is improving day-by-day, and this next step will be seen as a milestone for equality."


During the excitement that followed the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak back in February, Egyptian protesters cheered the military as it took control.

"The army and the people are [united in] one hand," they cheered.  Soldiers were given sweets and flowers and hoisted children onto their tanks to pose for photographs.
Now many revolutionaries feel that such enthusiasm was naive and their celebrations were premature.
Months of anger over the military's handling of the process of transition to civilian rule erupted at the weekend, leading to deadly clashes in Tahrir Square.
"Why do the security forces attack people who simply want their rights?  Do they just want to be destructive?" asks Amr Badr, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood youth, who joined the protest camp on Saturday.
"Every time the security forces advance towards the square, we push them back," he adds.
"The military and the police killed a lot of people.  We are suffering a lot.  They keep firing this tear gas so that nobody can breathe," says an activist, Amani Saleh, as she wipes her eyes.
She insists that demonstrators will remain in their symbolic location in the heart of Cairo for as long as it takes.
"We want democracy.  We will never leave our country like this.  We will stay until they go and we get our freedom," she says.
Many in the crowd see the ruling generals as little more than an extension of the former regime.
They point out they were all close allies of Mr Mubarak, appointed by him.  The head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), Field Marshal Hussein Muhammad Tantawi was his defence minister for two decades.
"Tantawi out" and "illegitimate" are now regular cries, adapted and borrowed from this year's uprising, that are being used by the demonstrators.
This round of confrontations began with a large rally on Friday dominated by Islamists - who expect to do well in forthcoming parliamentary elections.
They denounced a bid by the military-backed interim cabinet to lay down constitutional principles that would preserve special powers for the army after the handover to civilian rule.  These would give the military veto power over a new constitution and prevent scrutiny of its vast budget.
Several political groups, such as the 6 April Youth Movement, which helped galvanise Egyptians during the 25 January revolution, have also joined the protests which have spread to other major Egyptian cities.
With speculation that the current timetable could push a presidential election back to early 2013, they are calling for a vote no later than next April.
There are also demands for a national salvation government to replace Scaf and an immediate investigation into the latest violence.
"It's very simple, we want a clear roadmap for the transition of power which we have been calling for since 11 February.  This must include a timetable for the presidential elections," says one protester, Tamer Abbas, who works as a management consultant.
"We need to see an emergency cabinet which can save the situation and we need an apology."
For its part, the ruling military council maintains that it is sticking by its plan to open the first parliamentary polls on 28 November.
As ever, some officials are blaming "invisible forces" for the current troubles and said they have the right to implement security measures in Tahrir Square, particularly with ongoing attempts to attack the interior ministry.
According to Sameh Saif al-Yazal, head of the Al-Gomhoreya Institute for Security Studies in Egypt, the silent majority of Egyptians still supports the military.
"The fact is that we are a nation of some 85,000,000.  We see a few thousand people are leading this kind of aggression.  Most people want to see more respect for the government and police force," he says.
He stresses that the military is currently not doing the job that it was set up to do and does not seek a political role.
"This is absolutely incorrect information. I guarantee that the military and Scaf have not got any ambition to keep power," he says.  "They have been forced into politics.  After this period is over, they want to go back to their normal job and return to their barracks."
While the armed forces may want to retreat behind the scenes, aware that their public image is being tarnished, they also face a clear dilemma.
A true transition to democracy must inevitably mean yielding authority to a civilian.
Since the 1952 revolution that overthrew the monarchy, all of Egypt's four presidents have been military men.  They have allowed the military to develop major business assets and political power - with many provincial governors and public officials coming from within its ranks.
It is this essential contradiction between its own interests and the role it was asked to assume that made the armed forces ill-suited to the mantle they took on as "guarantors of the revolution".


Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has laid a wreath at the site of the Battle of the Somme on Thursday.

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is in France as part of a two-day trip to World War One battlefields.
On Wednesday, he was in Flanders at the site of the Battle of Messines, where he laid a wreath.
Mr McGuinness said he "could never have envisaged that I would've been [at the Somme] as deputy first minister and a proud Irish republican".
His visit to the Somme was an attempt to recognise soldiers from Ireland who died in the battle and its importance to unionists, he said.
The battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and lasted four-and-a-half months.
More than 3,500 soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) divisions were killed and thousands more were injured.
"My duty is to represent everybody and I think it is very important that we all step out of our comfort zones and that we do recognise that reconciliation is the next important phase of the peace process," Mr McGuinness said.
"I do that knowing that there will be some people who are not in favour of that."


Finn Harps footballer Kevin McHugh has been speaking about a freak accident which caused him to lose his finger.

It happened after the striker got his wedding ring  caught in a fence during a coaching session in County Donegal.
Unfortunately his finger could not be saved. McHugh told the BBC that he will not play again because of the injury.
"Its not the way I had planned to say goodbye, but that's the way it is," he said.
The 36-year-old said that he was jumping over a fence when the accident happened.
"Once my two feet landed on the ground it felt like there was a tug on the ring, I looked down at my hand and I saw there was no finger there.
"I looked at my club mates, Dessie McGlinchy and BJ Banda, and they were sheet white and in shock, so I knew it was bad."
"I had to hop back over the fence and bring BJ round because I needed them to coach the kids," McHugh said.
The former Derry City man then rushed to his car and drove himself to hospital.
"My first thought was that I couldn't let my own kids see my hand like this, so I knew I had to get to the car and get to the hospital quick.
"When I was in the car, I had to make a phone call to Mel, the other coach, because I realised I hadn't got the finger with me and I needed it for hospital.
"I phoned him and said: "Could you go back up and get my finger on top of the fence," and he said: "Are you serious?"
Attempts to reattach the finger at Galway University Hospital ultimately failed.
With only three games left for Finn Harps in the League of Ireland premier division, the captain revealed that he was planning to retire at the end of the campaign.
"The ring made a complete and utter mess of the finger, so there was nothing they could do for me," said McHugh.
"I was obviously hugely disappointed. They tried to recover it but it's gone now.
"I don't think I could run now at this stage, so yes, my season is completely over."
Throughout the ordeal, Kevin McHugh received plenty of attention from social media as he live tweeted updates on his condition.
"That was keeping me sane believe it or not. It was actually keeping my mind occupied as the nurses were working on me and pumping morphine into me."


West Midlands Police has said the home secretary's speech to last year's Conservative Party conference is being treated as a "hate incident".

In the speech, Amber Rudd suggested tightening rules that allow UK firms to recruit workers from overseas.
An Oxford University professor complained to the force claiming Ms Rudd was using "hate speech" to foster support for her political aims.
But West Midlands police said no crime had been committed.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "This was not a hate crime. The Home Secretary has been crystal clear that hatred has absolutely no place in a Britain that works for everyone.
"She's made countering hate one of her key priorities, indeed one of the first public interventions she made was to launch the Hate Crime Action Plan."
Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent, said West Midlands Police had assessed the complaint but it had not been formally investigated.
However, it had to be recorded as a "non-crime hate incident" in accordance with police national guidelines.
These state: "Where any person, including police personnel, reports a hate incident which would not be the primary responsibility of another agency, it must be recorded regardless of whether or not they are the victim, and irrespective of whether there is any evidence to identify the hate element."
'Not heard speech'
Professor Joshua Silver, who made the complaint, told BBC News: "Some politicians have been using hate crime as an instrument to foster support for their political aims."
He said he would consider whether the police response was "satisfactory" and said he was taking legal advice with a view to taking "further action".
However, during an interview on BBC2's Daily Politics, Prof Silver admitted he had not listened to Ms Rudd's speech, which did not include any reference to keeping lists of foreign workers.
"I didn't actually see the speech, but I've read the draft... I've read the speech carefully and I've looked at all the feedback," he said.
"It's discriminating against foreigners - you pick on them and say we want to give jobs to British people and not to foreigners. It was interpreted that way."
Furious row
Former Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard, speaking on the same programme, dismissed the claims.
"Of course it wasn't a hate incident," he said. "What Amber Rudd said was no different from Gordon Brown [former Labour prime minister] when he said there should be British jobs for British workers.
"I think Mr Silver should be thoroughly ashamed of himself because what he's doing is to bring a well-intentioned piece of legislation into disrepute."
West Midlands Police said it was not aware that it had received any other complaints about Ms Rudd's speech, which provoked a furious row at the time.
Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether she was prepared to "name and shame" companies which did not comply by publishing a breakdown of the nationality of their workforce, she said it was "not something we are definitely going to do" but it was "one of the tools" under review "as a way of nudging people into better behaviour".


Peter Mutharika has been sworn in as Malawi's president after the High Court rejected a request for a recount following allegations of vote-rigging.

The leader of the Democratic Progressive Party urged the 11 other presidential candidates to "join me in rebuilding the country".
Outgoing President Joyce Banda had alleged ballot fraud but has now admitted defeat.
Malawi is one of the world's poorest nations.
It is heavily dependent on aid, which provides 40% of the government's budget.
A protester died on Friday as police used  tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an angry crowd demanding a recount of last week's ballot in the south-eastern town of Mangochi.
Mr Mutharika is the brother of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office in 2012, and had served as his foreign minister.
He obtained 36.4% of the vote, according to the electoral commission, and said he felt "very humbled" to become Malawi's fifth president.
"It's obvious we are facing serious problems in this country. All of us together, let us build the country which is almost on the verge of collapse," he said.
Former preacher Lazarus Chakwera came second in the election with 27.8% of the vote. He represented the Malawi Congress Party, which governed from independence in 1964 until the first multi-party poll in 1994.
Mrs Banda, who came to power after the death of Bingu wa Mutharika two years ago, was third with 20.2% of the vote. Her administration had been hit by a corruption scandal dubbed "cashgate", which led donors to cut aid.
Mrs Banda had attempted to have the polls declared "null and void" on the grounds of "serious irregularities".
"The wish-list for Malawians is very long," says the Malawi News, a privately owned daily. "Being accountable seems to be a good starting point," adds the paper, emphasising the need for improving services and infrastructure.
"We can only have one president at a time," says the UK-based Nyasa Times, urging Malawians to leave behind "rancour and electoral vindictiveness".
The Weekend Nation says: "The new President, Peter Mutharika, has a huge responsibility of uniting Malawians... After all, Malawi belongs to everyone and every citizen".
(Via BBC Monitoring)
But she made no mention of this in a statement congratulating Mr Mutharika on his victory in a "closely contested election" and urging "all Malawians to support the newly elected president... and his government as they take on this foundation of progress and endeavour to develop Malawi even further."
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) had asked for a 30-day extension to declare the results so that a recount could be carried out.
However, the High Court refused to delay the release of results and ordered the commission to make its announcement on Friday.


David Cameron has urged people not to travel to Iraq and Syria, amid claims that Britons have joined the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.

His comments come as BBC News was told British Kurds have travelled from the UK to join Kurdish forces fighting IS.
The prime minister said said there was a "fundamental difference" between fighting for the Kurds and joining IS.
The Home Office said taking part in a conflict overseas could be an offence under both criminal and terror laws.
"However, UK law makes provisions to deal with different conflicts in different ways - fighting in a foreign war is not automatically an offence but will depend on the nature of the conflict and the individual's own activities," it added.
One Kurdish woman from West Yorkshire told BBC Radio Leeds she knew of 20 young men from West Yorkshire and Manchester who had travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to fight IS.
She said the British Kurds had travelled there to protect their "homeland".
Mr Cameron said he was aware the crisis in the region was attracting supporters of both sides from the UK.
He has previously said about 500 Britons had travelled to fight in Syria or Iraq but there are no estimates for the number of Kurds who have gone to fight.
Mr Cameron, also speaking to BBC Radio Leeds, said there was a difference between joining the forces of the "recognised Kurdish authority" and Sunni extremist group IS.
Asked how a distinction between volunteers with the Kurdish authorities and IS fighters would be made if fighters returned to the UK, Mr Cameron said: "That's why we have such highly trained border staff, police and intelligence services to do exactly that work."
He said the Kurdish authorities had done "very good work" opposing the extremists.
However, he added: "We want to limit the number of people travelling from here to go to these dangerous parts of the world, whatever they are planning to do."
The latest Foreign Office advice warns against all travel to large sections of central and northern Iraq, including Irbil, the capital of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as to Syria.
The UK government also advises against all but essential travel to the rest of Iraq.
Mr Cameron said some Britons who had initially travelled to the Middle East to help with aid convoys had become radicalised while they were there.
"We should focus on making sure humanitarian aid is getting in and you can do that from home," Mr Cameron added.


The rhino that seriously injured a senior keeper at Whipsnade Zoo had not shown any "uncharacteristic behaviour" beforehand, a report has revealed.

The man, in his 50s, was found semi-conscious at the zoo on 19 November.
Central Bedfordshire Council said the zoo's animal health and behavioural day logs had been "fully completed".
"[They] did not identify any issues to suggest abnormal or uncharacteristic behaviour of the rhino in the lead up to the date," a statement said.
The council said the injured man had also signed training records regarding the risk assessments of the rhino house in February 2014.
The keeper was found in the pool area of the rhino enclosure at the zoo near Dunstable.
The colleague who discovered him closed the gates to the outside paddock to isolate the animal before attending to the injured man.
He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in a "serious" condition and found to have injuries to the chest, abdomen and pelvis.
The council investigation into how the injuries occurred was unable to establish the cause.
Earlier this month, the authority said it would not release its full report but officials had concluded no further action was needed and the zoo said it would continue to work on health and safety procedures.
Neither the zoo nor the council will confirm whether the keeper is still in hospital.


Work has begun on a scheme to prevent flooding in Tal-y-Bont, near Bangor, and a stretch of the A55.

The village was hit by floods in December and January.
Workers will build 700m of earth bunds, ditches and culverts to divert floodwater into the Afon Ogwen river.
Traffic in Tal-y-Bont will be diverted during parts of the project, funded by the Welsh Government, but a temporary road will be built for public transport.
Hefin Lloyd-Davies, of Jones Bros civil engineering, carrying out the work, said: "There is a bottle neck in the area where two water courses meet and this has caused some of the problems in the surrounding areas and roads which become flooded during heavy rainfall."


The authorities in Shanghai, China's busiest port city, have cut fees in an attempt to end protests by truck drivers.

Hundreds of drivers took part in three days of protests against port fees and rising fuel prices in a move which reportedly caused delays to shipping.
A local government spokesperson said port operations were running normally.
Correspondents say it is not immediately clear if the move will end the protests.
Steps by the government will include "lowering standard fees and removing non-standard fees", according to an unidentified spokesperson for the Shanghai city government quoted by Xinhua news agency.
The BBC's Chris Hogg in Shangai says this was the first mention of the dispute in China's heavily censored media.
In recent days, all references to the protest on websites and microblogs had been removed by the authorities.
Drivers began the protest on Wednesday over rising fuel prices and port fees, blockading two cargo ports - Baoshan and Waigaoqiao - in the city.
China has raised fuel prices several times in the past year, blaming the rising cost of crude oil.
Our correspondent says the strike shows the potential of problems caused by inflation to fuel unrest, and the authorities will be worried about possible copycat strikes at other ports where workers have similar grievances.
It is hard to be certain at this stage whether Shanghai's proposals will be enough to end this industrial action, but areas which have seen confrontations are said to be calm, our correspondent adds.
Some drivers told Reuters news agency they had not received enough information about the fee cuts and vowed to continue the strike until concrete results were achieved.
"There is still a strike on. There are supposed to be organisers in talks but I won't believe it until I have the money in my hand," one driver from Henan province told the news agency.
Chinese officials have warned that inflation is likely to remain high for the rest of the year. Consumer prices rose 4.9% in February from the same month a year ago, above the maximum target of 4%.


It may not have been the most attractive building on the market, but for those who bought the former police station in Dungiven, it was the answer to their prayers.

The Presbyterian Church based next door needed extra space for its car park, so when the bomb-proof property became available, they were first in with a bid.
If all goes according to plan, the building will be in use by this time next year.
More than half of all police stations in Northern Ireland have been sold off in the past decade.
The majority have been bought by private developers - raising more than £24m for the public purse - some have been demolished to make way for housing and commercial developments.
But the bomb-proof Dungiven station, built in the 1990s, is still standing.
The congregation paid £175,000 for the station, which they plan to use for Sunday school classes and Church events.
"We never thought we would some day own the local police station, but now we do and think it's great value for money," said Ian Buchanan, who is on the Church committee.
"It may not be the most attractive building but it has great potential inside and we plan to use every room, including the holding cell.
"It will be a good place for some quiet reflection."
The Church had initially planned to use the site for a car park, but the congregation changed their plans after seeing the interior.
The two-storey building boasts five bedrooms, a gym, a holding cell and an armoury. It also has an office once used by military personnel.
The building was stripped down before being put up for sale.
Supt Muir Clark said he was pleased to see the building would be put to good use.
"A lot of the stations were heavily fortified and there needs to be a lot of work to make them useable for other purposes, so it is good to see the station in Dungiven used for public service," he said.
Dungiven police station is one of 74 former stations to be sold off in the past decade by the PSNI, which has reduced its number of police stations from 140 to just more than 60.
"As a police service we are now less than half the size we used to be, and therefore don't need the same estate," said Supt Clark.
He rejected claims that closing stations would leave some communities more vulnerable to crime.
"We can contact people in much different ways than we used to 20 or 30 years ago and still give that community confidence through social media and in other ways.
"So actually having a building in today's digital age is not as important as it used to be in the past."
Twenty two of the sites are still in the public sector, having been bought by councils, housing associations and community groups.
The remaining sites were sold on the open market to private developers and have been used for housing and commercial developments.
The former Ballynafeigh Police Station in Belfast is currently on the market with an asking price of £900,000.
But Supt Clark said the £24m so far raised from the sales does not end up in the PSNI's budget.
"The money goes back to Stormont, but the police can apply to use some of it for capital projects," he said.
You can see more on this story on BBC Newsline at 18:30 BST on Friday.


The late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been found guilty of tax fraud by a Moscow court.

Magnitsky was arrested in 2008 after accusing officials of tax fraud, but was later himself accused of the crime.
His death in custody a year later led to a major diplomatic dispute between Russia and the United States.
In the same trial, William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management which Magnitsky represented, was also found guilty of tax fraud.
Browder was convicted in absentia, and sentenced to nine years.
The London-based hedge fund manager has denied the charges and said the trial was politically motivated. His defence team have said they will appeal against the verdict.
In a statement, he said the verdict "will go down in history as one of the most shameful moments for Russia since the days of Joseph Stalin".
"The desperation behind this move shows the lengths that Putin is ready to go and to retaliate against anyone who expose the stealing and corruption he presides over," he said.
No sentence will be passed for Magnitsky, whose relatives regard the case as illegal.
A lawyer for the family told Russia's Rapsi news agency: "I did not doubt that the decision would look like this."
"I know that he committed no crimes."
It is believed to be the first time in Soviet or Russian history that a defendant was tried posthumously.
Employed as an auditor for Hermitage, Magnitsky uncovered what he described as a web of corruption involving Russian tax officials, including the alleged theft of more than $200m (Â£125m).
After reporting the allegations to the authorities, he was himself detained on suspicion of helping Hermitage evade $17.4m in taxes.
He was accused of having registered two firms in the republic of Kalmykia - at the time a Russian "offshore" tax haven - to hide assets.
Then, it is alleged, he hired local people with disabilities as "analysts", entitling the firms to tax benefits. In his pre-trial testimony, Magnitsky insisted that the firms' tax advantages were legal and that those hired were genuine, wage-earning employees.
He had pancreatitis and died in custody in 2009, but an investigation by Russia's presidential council on human rights concluded that he had been severely beaten and denied medical treatment.
Last December, a Russian court acquitted a prison doctor accused of negligence over Mr Magnitsky's death. And in March this year the investigation into his death was dropped altogether due to "lack of evidence of a crime".
Browder has described the charges filed against him as an "absurdity" and revenge for his campaign to put pressure on Russia over the Magnitsky case.
Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, he said the entire legal process had happened because Magnitsky "blew the whistle" on official fraud "and for that he was tortured and killed in police custody and then prosecuted afterwards".
"Instead of Putin bringing justice, he exonerated all the officials involved and prosecuted the whistle blowers.
Mr Browder said it was his expectation "that no Western country will co-operate with the Russians", as Interpol has said it considers the trial politically motivated.
"We will carry on in our fight for justice for Sergei Magnitsky as long as it takes," he said.
The case became a symbol in the US of the fight against corruption in Russia.
Last year, Washington passed the Magnitsky Act, blacklisting Russian officials accused of human rights violations, including those linked to the case.
In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law barring Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
The Russian foreign ministry also drew up its own blacklist of US officials who are alleged to have committed human rights violations.


It was one of the key points in the Stormont House Agreement - the plan to give the most seriously injured victims of the Troubles a special pension.

It is thought about 400 people in Northern Ireland live with permanent disabilities after surviving gun and bomb attacks.
Those injuries include amputations, paralysis and blindness.
They did get compensation, but they say it is now running out. Some victims now rely entirely on benefits.
Because they could not return to work due to their injuries, they have not built up work-based pension savings.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is presently preparing a bill to go through Stormont to put a special pension in place for them.
Current victims' legislation in Northern Ireland from 2006 does not judge how someone became injured.
It is argued that means former paramilitaries should be eligible to get this pension if their injuries are serious enough.
It is thought 10 former paramilitaries fall into this category. More could come forward if the pension scheme goes ahead.
But the DUP say their proposed bill does not need to rely on that current definition of a victim. They plan to exclude anyone with a terrorist conviction.
Ernie Wilson was a school bus driver and member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR).
In 1988, his bus was blown up by the IRA in Lisnaskea. He suffered injuries to his legs and eyes.
He says no paramilitaries should be entitled to the proposed victims' pension.
"My message is pay the people that have been injured by the terrorists. Full stop.
"I know the men that are injured have to live, they have to get food, they have to get clothed, they have to be looked after.
"But they should not be getting a pension for trying to kill me."
Yet the BBC's Spotlight programme has learned that the injured paramilitaries have support from some surprising quarters.
Paul Gallagher was 21 when the loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) took over his house with the aim of killing a republican who lived nearby.
When they could not find their target, they shot Paul six times.
He was left paralysed from the waist down.
He told Spotlight that allowing injured paramilitaries to avail of the pension was a price worth paying.
"It's a tough one. Say somebody was seriously injured, even by their own hand, they have needs now. So, I mean, they need to be looked after.
"If they go forward to the NHS they are not going to be turned away at the door.
"So why should they be turned away at the door of maybe the victims and survivors' service or other sorts of services?
"For me, it is as simple as just looking at human suffering really as the qualification for eligibility or even to be recognised as a victim."
Sinn FÃ©in told Spotlight they would not support the DUP bill if former paramilitaries are to be excluded.
Spotlight was broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday 2 June, and is available on the iPlayer.


A development of luxury homes in Cambridge has been daubed with graffiti - written in Latin, of course.

Vandals spray-painted the new five-bedroom river-front houses with the words Locus in Domos Loci Populum.
Locals have said the messages, which appear to be a protest against the development, could "only happen" in the university city.
The homes, in Water Street, Chesterton, priced from £1.25m are on the site of an old pub.
Cambridge University Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, said: "This is a bit hard to translate, but I think what they're trying to say is that a lovely place has been turned into houses."
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The five detached homes, overlooking the River Cam, are being sold jointly by agents Bidwells and Tucker Gardner as a "true 'reflection' of the space and tranquillity" of living in this part of the city.
According to Google Translate, the phrase locus in domos means "room in the house", and loci populum means "local people".
The graffiti has prompted a flurry of reaction on social media, with many arguing about the meaning.
A number have suggested the vandals typed "local homes for local people" into the Google translator, and came up with the phrase "locus in domos loci populum".
One wrote: "Whatever the translation, it's criminal damage."
Other comments include: "This is the most Cambridge thing ever" and "it's a different class of graffiti in Cambridge".
The graffiti is thought to be a protest against the development and the high cost of housing in the city.
According to a recent report from think tank Centre for Cities, Cambridge house prices are the third highest in the country, with the average cost of a city home coming in at £475,820 meaning many people are priced out of the market.
A spokesman for the developer, HC Moss (Builders) Ltd, said the company was "taking steps to remove the graffiti" and believed it was an isolated incident. Security measures at the site were being reviewed, they added.
Cambridgeshire Police confirmed they were investigating the graffiti on four houses in the street.
"A member of the public reported it to us at about 08:00 BST. We're investigating criminal damage in the form of graffiti," a spokesman said.


Two men aged 21 and 27, and one woman aged 21 have been arrested in Walsall, West Midlands, on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences.

The trio were detained at their home addresses at 06:00 BST on Tuesday.
They are being held at a station in the West Midlands Police area.
Searches are now being carried out at eight associated addresses in the Walsall area and one in Moseley, Birmingham.
Police said the operation, undertaken by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, was "pre-planned and intelligence-led".
There was no immediate threat to public safety, they said.
The arrests were made under terrorism legislation, meaning officers have an initial 48 hours to question the suspects before charging or releasing them, or applying for a warrant of further detention.


Celtic completed a domestic treble without losing a game as Tom Rogic fired in a stoppage-time goal against Aberdeen to win the Scottish Cup.

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A beautifully controlled half-volley from Jonny Hayes after nine minutes was reward for a fine Dons start.
But Celtic were level within two minutes as Stuart Armstrong was given too much time to pick out the far corner from the edge of the box.
Late Celtic pressure paid off as Rogic fired low past goalkeeper Joe Lewis.
A thrilling 90 minutes concluded with Celtic not only lifting the cup for the first time since 2013 but becoming the first side in Scotland to complete an unbeaten treble.
It is the 37th time the Hoops have lifted the world's oldest national football trophy and the fourth time they have won the treble - and their first since 2001.
Derek McInnes' Dons, looking to end a 27-year wait to win the competition for an eighth time, were left as runners-up to Brendan Rodgers' side in the Premiership, the League Cup and now the Scottish Cup.
It was a pulsating cup final right from the start, Aberdeen coming out with an edge to their play that put their illustrious rivals on the back foot.
Yes, Rodgers' team had won five out of five in the head-to-heads this season, with an aggregate score of 12-2, but this was an altogether different Dons to previous versions.
In this classic, they were a team reborn.
In the beginning, they harried Celtic's go-to men. Graeme Shinnie and Kenny McLean were commanding.
They lived in their faces defensively and showed plenty offensively. The feeling was that Aberdeen had to take the lead to make a true fight of this final and that is precisely what they did.
Having shipped three early goals to Celtic in their last meeting, the Dons changed the narrative.
From a Niall McGinn corner, Hayes came round the blindside of Leigh Griffiths and smashed a volley past goalkeeper Craig Gordon and beyond Kieran Tierney on the line.
It was a goal of quality and a goal that electrified the huge Aberdeen support.
Celtic are champions, though, and their true selves emerged only two minutes later when Aberdeen unwisely stood off Armstrong, who thumped in the equaliser low to Lewis's left.
Two early goals and the intensity only cranked up from there. Midway through the half, there was controversy.
Jayden Stockley - selected up front ahead of Adam Rooney - swung an arm into Tierney's face and the young Celtic full-back immediately signalled that he was in bother.
Blood poured from his mouth and, after treatment, he had to leave the field.
Stockley has a reputation for over-zealous use of his arms and elbows and was deeply fortunate not to see red for a fourth time this season. He claimed it was accidental, but Celtic were having none of it. They were incensed.
Callum McGregor shifted to left-back and Rogic came into the final and things went up another level.
Gordon made a double save in quick order and then made another from a Stockley header.
Celtic were rattled, they were totally unable to get a hold of the game in the face of the Dons' aggressive edge.
It was Celtic, however, who should have gone ahead just before the break when a delicious Griffiths delivery was put over from point-blank range by Scott Sinclair.
The toe-to-toe nature of the contest carried on brilliantly. Griffiths and Sinclair went close then Aberdeen swept downfield on a breakaway and a priceless chance was wasted.
Hayes had mugged McGregor down the right and, with McLean running free in the box, all they had to do was get their communication right and a goal was certain.
They didn't. Hayes hit his pass slightly behind McLean and the midfielder couldn't hook it in. Agony for Aberdeen.
Celtic then moved up a gear and now it was the Dons pinned on the ropes. Lewis pushed a Patrick Roberts shot on to his post.
From the resulting corner, Celtic's Mikael Lustig tugged the ball just wide. The game opened up as wide as the Clyde.
Aberdeen's Ash Taylor headed away from under his own crossbar, Dedryck Boyota headed just over, Gordon made a fine save from Shinnie and then it was Lewis's turn again, saving wonderfully from Griffiths. Lewis was immense for the Dons.
As the final wore on, Celtic took an ever-tightening grip.
Rodgers' side pressed and pressed and a tiring Aberdeen threw their bodies in front of shots to keep alive. Their scrambling defence was constant and heroic.
But it wasn't enough. With all at Hampden steeling themselves for extra-time, Rogic ran at Aberdeen down the right, going past the utterly jaded Andrew Considine and slamming his shot low under Lewis. Extraordinary.
The heartbroken Dons had made it a mighty battle, but Celtic showed their incomparable will and their domestic greatness.
The history makers had done it again. A treble won. Truly, they are something special.
Match ends, Celtic 2, Aberdeen 1.
Second Half ends, Celtic 2, Aberdeen 1.
(Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Attempt saved. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Celtic. Erik Sviatchenko replaces Patrick Roberts.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Scott Wright replaces Ryan Jack.
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Celtic 2, Aberdeen 1. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mikael Lustig.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Mark Reynolds.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen).
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Anthony O'Connor.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Niall McGinn.
Foul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic).
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  Aberdeen. Conceded by Craig Gordon.
Attempt saved. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Aberdeen. Conceded by Callum McGregor.
Attempt missed. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Ash Taylor.
Foul by Jozo Simunovic (Celtic).
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Mikael Lustig (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Joe Lewis.
Patrick Roberts (Celtic) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Adam Rooney replaces Jayden Stockley.


Argentine sailor Santiago Lange, who lost part of a lung to cancer last year, teamed up with Cecilia Carranza Saroli to win gold at the Olympics.

The 54-year-old, the oldest sailor competing in Rio, and his compatriot won the Nacra 17 mixed category.
Lange was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and believes he owes his early diagnosis to the sport.
"Probably if I wasn't travelling so much and wasn't so tired it wouldn't have been found," he said.
"I was very lucky to find it.
"My philosophy and what I learned through the sport helped me a lot. With sailing you learn to suffer in a certain way, to go through hard times and stand up and keep pushing."
Lange teamed up with Carlos Espinola to win Olympic bronze in the Tornado in 2004 and 2008.
His sons Yago and Klaus will compete in the 49er skiff class in Rio.
Australia were second behind Lange and Saroli, with Austria third.
British pair Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves finished 18th in the medal race, and ninth overall.
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Prosecutors are to press ahead with their case against a Sudanese man granted asylum in Britain after walking through the Channel Tunnel from France.

Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was granted asylum on Christmas Eve after being found inside the tunnel on 4 August.
He denies a charge of causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage.
Canterbury Crown Court bailed Mr Haroun until 3 March, when it will consider legal argument. A provisional trial date has been set for 20 June.
Mr Haroun was found near the end of the 31-mile Channel Tunnel at Folkestone, Kent.
In a separate case two other men arrested after walking through the Channel Tunnel also appeared at the same court.
Iranians Payam Moradi Mirahessari, 25, and Farein Vahdani, 20, both pleaded not guilty to obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway last October.
The pair were remanded in custody for legal argument on 4 March.
A trial date was set for 4 April.


A fatal accident inquiry into a girl's death when a school wall collapsed on her in Edinburgh is to be held in June.

Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died when a PE block modesty wall at Liberton High School fell in April 2014.
No criminal charges are to be brought, however a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will be held to examine the full circumstances of the death.
The Crown Office said it was in the public interest to hold an FAI to help avoid such an incident happening again.
The inquiry will also examine the safety of internal freestanding walls.
The FAI at Edinburgh Sheriff Court will start on 5 June, with a preliminary hearing fixed for 3 March.
The gym hall at the school has since been demolished, in accordance with the wishes of staff and parents.
City of Edinburgh Council ordered urgent checks at schools across the city after the tragedy.
The Crown Office announced in November no criminal proceedings would be brought, though this may be reconsidered should additional evidence come to light.
A Crown Office spokesman said at the time: "Crown counsel have decided that it is in the public interest to hold a fatal accident inquiry to examine the full circumstances surrounding this tragic death to help avoid such an incident happening again in the future.
"The fatal accident inquiry will have an opportunity to consider the safety of internal freestanding walls."
The case was investigated by police and the Health and Safety Executive under the direction of the Crown's health and safety division.
The 12-year-old's death shocked the school and led to hundreds of tributes, including a song recorded by friends in her memory that made it into the top 100 on the download chart in December 2014.
The money raised by Keane's Song went towards a memorial garden at the school.


Police officers in England and Wales have criticised a new 10-page form they have to fill out every time they use any kind of force against someone.

Since April this year officers have had to record a series of details every time they use handcuffs, CS spray or draw a baton.
As Home Secretary, Theresa May promised to get rid of what she described as "grinding" bureaucracy in policing.
One Police Federation official said the new process was "very bureaucratic".
The new rules were announced in March by Mrs May's successor as Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, with the aim of ensuring that police record every encounter involving force.
Ms Rudd said that "when police take the difficult decision to deploy force, it is also vital that the people they serve can scrutinise it.
"These new rules will introduce unprecedented transparency to this important subject and reinforce the proud British model of policing by consent."
But John Apter, chairman of the Hampshire Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said filling out the 10-page form had proved to be like "writing an exam essay".
Mr Apter said he understood the need to capture data about the use of force, but thought the process was too complex and took too long, especially at a time when police were already over-stretched.
It is "over-engineered", he said.
"I know officers who haven't got the time to fill in the form," he said, adding that in some city forces, such as London's Metropolitan Police, officers might have to fill in six forms on each shift.
He believes a better approach would be to scan officers' pocketbooks and use samples of these to provide and analyse data.
Police forces will begin publishing data from the forms over the next couple of weeks.
The rules require a "use of force monitoring form", administered by the National Police Chiefs' Council, to be completed "as soon as practicable" after any incident involving force.
A separate form must be completed for each person on whom force is used and officers are expected to complete forms for their own constabulary, even if the incident took place in another police force's area.
The forms require full details of the incident, including location, whether officers were themselves threatened or assaulted and what sort of force they used.
Officers are expected to mark a diagram showing what areas of the person's body the force was used on, whether the person was injured and whether medical assistance was offered or provided.
Previously each force was required to provide details of the use of Tasers and firearms, but the new rules also ask for details of the use of batons, spit-guards, dogs, shields, handcuffs and unarmed restraint, as well as irritant sprays such as CS.
Speaking in May 2011, during her six years as Home Secretary, Mrs May promised that her policies would "do away with the bureaucratic accountability of the past. So we will free the police to do their job".
"I have said loud and clear that the days of the bureaucrats controlling and managing the police from Whitehall are over.
"The Home Office will no longer scrutinise and supervise police performance and come up endlessly with new schemes and initiatives."


More than 260 air weapons have been handed in to Tayside police stations ahead of the introduction new Scottish licensing laws.

It will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016.
Anyone found guilty of the new offence could be fined or face up to two years in prison.
Owners can apply to Police Scotland for a new air weapon certificate from 1 July.
The three-week amnesty began on 23 May and will run until 12 June.
Ch Insp Mike Whitford, of Tayside's divisional coordination unit, said 261 weapons had been handed in so far.
He said: "Every one of these weapons has the potential to cause serious injury or death, in particular to children or young people if handled incorrectly.
"There will be many lying around in homes across Tayside unused and this is a great opportunity to get rid of them."
The weapons can be handed in to police headquarters in Dundee, Perth and Forfar.
Mr Whitford said: "I would encourage anyone who has such a weapon to consider if they are likely to apply for a certificate under the new legislation and if not, hand it in to one of designated stations.
"It will remove the risk from their family and other members of the public.
"If you are carrying a weapon to a police station, please keep it in a bag to avoid causing alarm."
The legislation was passed by MSPs in June 2015.
The Scottish government pledged to introduce the licensing scheme following the death of Glasgow toddler Andrew Morton, who was shot dead by an airgun in 2005.


Nasa has announced that it will be launching a new search for astronauts to go on future space missions.

This is part of their plan to get people living on Mars within the next 20 years.
The US space agency is looking for people who are physically strong, have skills in maths, science and engineering, as well as having jet-pilot flying experience!
Since it formed in 1958, Nasa has chosen more than 300 astronauts.
Nasa will be accepting applications from 14 December through to mid-February 2016. It will hopefully announce the new astronauts in 2017.
So what does it take to be an astronaut...
In order to be considered to be an astronaut you have to have studied subjects like science, maths or engineering at university.
This is so that you can carry out experiments in space and then send back the results to scientists on Earth.
A good education also helps astronauts understand how to fix things in the spacecraft and keep everything running smoothly.
Living in space causes all kinds of problems for the human body, including having weaker bones and losing muscle strength.
After five months in orbit above the Earth, an astronaut would typically lose as much as 40% of muscle and 12% of bone mass, according to Jeremy Curtis from the UK Space Agency.
Astronauts use special gyms on board the International Space Station to help keep their muscles active.
During blast-off, astronauts can experience three times the force of gravity pressing down on them, than humans are normally exposed to here on Earth. They have to be physically strong to deal with this.
Spacemen and women have to go through some pretty tough training before they become official astronauts.
Scientists have to be sure that the trainee is strong enough both physically and mentally to live and work in space.
It can get lonely when your family is home on Earth, so they have to be emotionally strong until they see them again.
As part of their job astronauts might need to explore new places humans have never been to before, so they need to be courageous.


A joint funeral mass is being held in California for two of the six students killed in an apartment balcony collapse in Berkeley on Monday night.

The service for cousins dual Irish-US citizen Ashley Donohoe, 22, and Olivia Burke, 21, from Dublin, was taking place in Sonoma.
The bodies of four other Irish students will be repatriated on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin on Saturday night.
They are due to arrive at Dublin Airport on Sunday morning.
On Friday night the relatives of LorcÃ¡n Miller, Eimear Walsh, Eoghan Culligan, and Niccolai (Nick) Schuster received their bodies for the first time at a joint service in St Columba's Church in Oakland, California.
Their bodies lay in repose in open caskets until around 22:00 local time.
After Saturday's joint funeral service for Ashley Donohoe and Olivia Burke, Ms Burke's remains will be flown home to Ireland on Sunday evening.
The balcony collapsed during a 21st birthday party in the early hours of Tuesday in the city of Berkeley.
Five of the six people who died were Irish students based in the US as part of a work exchange programme.
The victims were:
Meanwhile, the conditions of two of the people who were injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse have improved.
Conor Flynn and Jack Halpin are being cared for at the John Muir Medical Centre in Walnut Creek.
Hospital pastor Fr Michael Gillen described the pair as inspirational and said they should make a full recovery.
Investigations continue into why the fourth-floor balcony collapsed.
Engineers say water damage may have caused the structure to give way.
Authorities said 13 people were on the balcony when it collapsed.
A book of condolence is to be opened at Belfast City Hall on Monday.


Police are treating the death of a man whose body was found in the Wick river as unexplained.

The body of 30-year-old William McGough, from Wick, was found by a member of the public at about 06:30 am on Saturday the 23rd of March.
Police said they were trying to establish his final movements as they awaited the results of a post mortem.
They want to hear from anyone who was in the Victoria Lane area between 18:00 on Friday and 06:30 on Saturday.
Mr McGough is described as over 6ft tall and of slim build.
He was wearing a light coloured jacket, dark tracksuit bottoms and a dark baseball cap.


More than 50 people have been killed in a prison riot in western Venezuela, hospital staff say.

The riot was triggered when local media broadcast news that soldiers had been sent to Uribana prison in Barquisimeto to search for weapons, Prisons Minister Iris Varela said.
Hospital director Ruy Medina told AFP news agency that some 90 people were injured, mostly from gunshot wounds.
The dead are thought to include inmates, guards and prison workers.
The director of Barquisimeto hospital, Ruy Medina, put the death toll at 54, Venezuela's Clarin newspaper reported.
Venezuelan Human rights activist Carlos Nieto Palma told BBC Mundo: "What should have been a normal procedure in any prison ended in a clash between National Guard [soldiers] and inmates."
He added that Uribana prison was among the most dangerous in the country.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles blamed the violence on "incompetent and irresponsible government".
Venezuela's prisons are blighted by overcrowding and the proliferation of weapons and drugs.
The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Caracas says it appears that prisoners who had heard about the search in advance from news reports were waiting for the National Guard when they arrived.
It is thought that the search was aimed at disarming gangs within the prison and had been planned for some time, she reports.
There has been no official account of the incident or confirmation of the number of casualties, but the government says it will carry out a full investigation.


Militants have reportedly killed 17 people in the north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, near the Israel-Gaza border.

Security sources say 15 soldiers and two civilians died when gunmen attacked checkpoints around the town of Sheikh Zuweid on Thursday.
Egyptian forces have been fighting a faction affiliated to the Islamic State group, known as Sinai Province.
Dozens of soldiers and civilians have already been killed this year in northern Sinai.
In the latest incident, gunmen fired on soldiers with automatic rifles and rockets as part of a co-ordinated set of attacks, police officials say.
The army claimed to have killed at least 70 suspected militants in March.
Sinai Province was known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis until it pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in November.
It said it was behind most of the major attacks in Sinai, including a series of strikes that left at least 30 people dead on 29 January.
Militants based in Sinai have killed hundreds of soldiers and police since the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.


Great Britain have failed in their appeal against disqualification from the Olympic men's 4x400m relay semi-final in Rio.

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Nigel Levine, Delano Williams, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Martyn Rooney finished first in two minutes 58.88 seconds.
Leg three runner Hudson-Smith was ruled to have had part of his foot out of the takeover zone when he began running.
British Athletics said it was "hugely disappointed" and confident the team would have won a medal in the final.
The appeal was rejected because video evidence was inconclusive, meaning the decision of the referee must be upheld.
Britain clocked the third fastest time behind Jamaica and the United States, who ran in the first semi-final.
Team GB's disqualification means Brazil progress to the final as the eighth-fastest qualifier.
Rooney, 29, told BBC Radio 5 live: "In the changeover you have to be between two red lines which are about 20 metres apart. You have to stay within those red lines.
"From then on there is a solid red line across the track which is about 10 metres before the finish line and 10 metres afterwards, and you have to exchange within the zones.
"I haven't seen it, but I can't see how any of us went outside those zones."
The women's quartet made it safely through to the final on Saturday.
"I haven't been involved in so much speculation as I have in the next 20 minutes," former Olympic champion Michael Johnson said after the men's race.
"It has to have been a judge that decided he saw something somewhere that they decided was an infringement, but I just can't think what that could be."


Tottenham fans are the most satisfied with their current squad among Premier League and Scottish Premiership clubs, according to the results of BBC Sport's team selector.

At least 80% of Spurs fans were happy with their options in the starting XI, although elsewhere the picture is not so harmonious.
One club's supporters have issues with nine positions in their starting XI, while the left-back berth at a top Premier League side is of concern to 93% of fans.
We asked supporters of Premier League and Scottish Premiership clubs to use BBC Sport's team selector to tell us whether they were satisfied with their squad, via a simple tick or cross for each position.
More than 100,000 selections were made, from which we were able to draw some conclusions.
For each position, we looked at what percentage of the picks were positive - for example 94% of Arsenal fans were happy with their options at right-back, compared to only 57% of Manchester United fans for the same position.
What became apparent was that 90% was a good benchmark figure to show when fans had few concerns over a position, while a figure of 75% or below showed that fans at least had some doubts in that area.
Spurs fans are unique in not having concerns over a single position. At every other club at least one position got approval from fewer than 75% of fans, but at Spurs at least 80% of fans were happy with every slot.
Six positions in the Spurs XI were given the thumbs up by upwards of 90% of fans, the joint most along with Manchester City, Manchester United and Middlesbrough.
At the Manchester clubs, the only concerns were in full-back positions. Only 57% of United fans felt happy with the options at right-back, contrasting with 95% satisfied with left-back. At City, both full-back positions appeared to be a cause for concern, only 62% happy with right-back and 58% with left-back.
Boro fans showed their delight with the defence - the goalkeeper and back four all deemed fine by at least 90% of fans - but there were concerns over three positions further forward.
Chelsea fans were delighted with five positions and only had concerns over one - again at right-back - while Arsenal fans rated five positions at above 90%, but had concerns over two - left-back and centre-forward.
The findings make grim reading for Swansea, West Brom and Sunderland.
At Swansea, only one position found favour with 90% of fans, while seven scored below the 75% mark. However, at West Brom, while there was again one position with above 90%, nine of the other 10 positions scored below 75%.
At Sunderland, not a single position scored above 80%, let alone 90%, while eight slots fell below 75%, including a dismal 24% for the goalkeeper and 32% for the second striker position.
The only other team to not get a single position above the 90% mark was Bournemouth, the Cherries also having four positions below 75% including alarming figures of 45% and 50% for the two centre-back slots.
The highest approval rating for any position at any club was the 98.5% who expressed satisfaction with the goalkeeping strength at Manchester United.
A number of positions at other clubs came close, for instance 96% of Manchester City fans were happy with the left midfield position. At Watford, 97.3% of fans were happy with the left-hand side of the three centre-backs in their 3-5-2 formation. No other outfield position was rated so highly.
But what of the other end? While many positions were in the 40% range and a few lower still, one stood out.
Liverpool fans expressed concerns over a few positions, including goalkeeper, but nothing came close to their concern over left-back. Only 7% of fans felt the squad was adequate in that position, to put the figure into context it was almost four times lower than any other position at any other club.
The average approval, taking in every position at every club, was 81%. On the whole, fans felt they did not have too much cause concern with their squads.
The highest average approval for any one position was goalkeepers at 86%, only one in every seven fans to send in a selection suggested their club should have strengthened in that area.
Other positions were not too far behind. All midfield positions averaged in the low 80s, as did both central defensive spots.
The full-back positions were a worry across many clubs and this is reflected in their overall approval average - 75% for right-back and 70% for the opposite wing.
Finding averages for attacking positions comes with a caveat as fans chose numerous formations, ranging from one striker to three. What we can say is that for the one spot which was a striker in any formation, approval was a relatively low 73%
*Below are findings for 23 teams - the 20 Premier League teams plus Aberdeen, Celtic and Rangers - the other nine Scottish Premiership clubs were omitted because of the small sample size of team selections. We've got general findings, and then at least one stat for every team.
Arsenal
Arsenal fans seemed satisfied with most of their team, with one notable exception. Most fans picked a formation with just one striker - and had concerns over that striker, only 45% believing the current squad was sufficiently strong in that position.
Bournemouth
Centre-back was the main concern for Cherries fans, with the two slots having approval ratings of 45 and 50% suggesting many fans believe two signings were required at the back.
Perhaps boosted by the arrival of Jack Wilshere, central midfield was the area of least concern, 85% of fans happy with that position.
Burnley
Every Burnley fan who contributed selected a 4-4-2 formation. Within that formation, the wide midfielders stood out as being a perceived weakness - only 33% happy with right midfield, and 28% with the opposite flank.
Chelsea
Midfield was seen as being the squad's strongest area, with an average in excess of 90% approval across all midfield positions.
Chelsea's strength in goal was evident in a 98% approval rating, but no other defensive position was higher than 85% and the right-back slot was a concern to around a third of fans.
Crystal Palace
Palace's squad was one of the most split, with some positions above 90%, others below 60%. The areas for concern were left-back (55% approval) and both central midfield slots at around 60% - the arrival of the out-of-contract Mathieu Flamini perhaps partly addressing this potential weakness.
Better news was to be found in goal (98% approval) and attack with 93% approval for the front two.
Everton
Only the left-back position scored above 90% approval and fans identified major concerns at either end of the pitch.
Only 48% of fans were happy with the strength in goal, and 45% with the options in attack.
Midfield was a strength, with both central positions around the 85% mark
Hull
Given Hull's shortage of players, their stats in this squad selector could have made for ugly reading. However, fans seem generally fairly satisfied, overall they were 17th happiest- not amazing, but above both Liverpool and Bournemouth.
Right-back is the main concern, just 42% happy with the options there, while only 62% are happy with the second centre-back and second striker spots.
Leicester
Fans of the reigning champions were only the 11th most satisfied out of the 23 teams to return sufficient data.
Some 32% of fans felt another central midfielder was required and 40% were less than impressed with the options at right-back. A quarter of fans even wanted another centre-back too. However, goalkeeper (95%) and the two centre-forward positions (91 and 93%) were viewed more positively.
Liverpool
The left-back stat is the one which jumps out, only 7% of fans happy with the choices in that position.
However, approval ratings were also low for keeper (62%), second centre-back (67%), and one of the central midfield positions (66%). Only a number 10 type position did particularly well, with 92% approval.
Manchester City
Bar the low scores for full-backs as mentioned above, City fans appeared happy with their squad.
Across the midfield, approval was in excess of 90% and the two centre-back positions also received 89% approval, highlighting how well John Stones has settled in following his move from Everton.
The goalkeeping position received a decent 85% approval - though it's worth noting this is well below the rating for many rivals, with the keepers at United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs all in excess of 95% and the average for keepers across all clubs was 86% approval.
Manchester United
The goalkeeper's 99% approval is the highest of any position at any club, while left-back (95%), centre-forward (94%) and left-wing/attacking midfield (94%) were also given heavy approval.
Right-back was a concern, and the data also suggested fans feel United might be a centre-back light - the first centre-back position had a 90% approval rating, the second down at 78%
Middlesbrough
Defence - sorted. That's the view from the fans, with the average approval across the goalkeeper and back four just shy of 95%.
Inevitably the figures drop off further forward, and it's in the attacking midfield slots that confidence seems the lowest. Most fans picked formations with one striker and while the 80% approved of the options for the centre forward position, only around two thirds were happy with the options for attacking midfield.
Southampton
Fans were delighted with the strength in goal, giving a 96% approval rating. However, while stopping goals might be in good hands, there was concern over scoring them.
Most fans picked a formation with two strikers - and gave a 60% approval rating for the first striker and just 42% for the second; fans clearly wishing they had at least one more striker on the books, and many wanting two more.
Stoke City
Stoke fans seemed happy with their options in midfield, especially the attacking midfield and wide positions - the two slots typically supporting the striker having approval percentages of 91 and 93%.
However, the centre-forward position itself was a bigger concern, with 74% approval and left-back, seemingly a concern at so many clubs, only being satisfactorily covered according to 62% of supporters.
Sunderland
Sunderland fans demonstrated a lot of concern about their squad and presumably the coming season.
Only 24% were happy with the goalkeeping options, and 32% with the second striker spot. If there were concerns at either end of the field, the middle wasn't much better - no position in midfield getting above 68% approval. The centre-backs were the closest thing to a positive, both getting 80% approval.
Swansea
Ninety-seven percent of fans were happy with the strength in goal - which is just as well as the centre-back figures suggest the goalkeeper might be busy. Neither centre-back got above 50% approval, suggesting fans perhaps doubt the wisdom of allowing Ashley Williams to leave.
Goals could be a problem too, one of the centre-forward spots having only 38% approval.
Tottenham
Spurs fans are pretty happy - they came top overall for fan satisfaction. Defence is seen as the greatest strength, the goalkeeper and entire back four all having approval in excess of 93%.
If there is a concern it is in attack, the three most attacking positions all having a decent, if unspectacular rating of 80% - this compares badly with the likes of the two Manchester clubs.
Watford
A team of two halves at Watford - with the goalkeeper and defence averaging around 92% approval, but the rest of the team hovering in the high 70s.
It might be a tad surprising that the defence rates so highly when Watford have conceded the joint-most goals in the league, though we are only three games in.
With no position scoring lower than 73% approval it seemed fans did not have any huge concerns over the squad.
West Brom
The Baggies' midfield and attack are of huge concern to fans, with only one of the front six positions getting above 60% approval.
The central midfield positions average 55% approval, attack averages 50%. The one positive is a 96% rating for goalkeeper, though the other figures suggest he's going to be busy.
West Ham
Hammers fans are satisfied with the defence, delighted with the midfield, and worried about the attack.
Approval in defence is around 83% on average, but that jumps to 91% in midfield. Attack though is a different matter with fewer than half of fans satisfied. The data suggests the Hammers are just one top striker away from having a squad fans can feel genuinely excited about.
Celtic and Rangers fared similarly in that both had two positions with greater than 90% approval and three with below 75%. However, the concern was greater among Rangers fans as both centre-back positions scored in the 30 - 40% range.
Aberdeen fans were happy with attack and attacking midfield positions, but less enamoured with the options in central midfield.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen fans showed concerns over centre-back, with only 42% happy with the second centre-back position, and also attacking midfield, with positions just behind a sole striker in a 4-2-3-1 formation averaging around 60%.
However, centre-forward itself was not seen as an issue, more than 90% of fans happy with the goalscoring options.
Celtic
For Celtic fans, the biggest concern is in central midfield. With the majority of fans picking formations with two central midfielders, those two positions were seen as fine by just 67 and 57% of users.
The goalkeeping position was also a cause for concern - only 70% satisfied, this against an average of 86% for goalkeepers across all clubs.
Only 5% of fans felt left-back was a cause for concern.
Rangers
Rangers fans were also extremely positive about their strength at left-back, 95% saying they were satisfied with this position.
However, there the similarities with Celtic end. Central midfield was rated positively, all positions receiving more than 85% approval, but central defence was a clear area of concern. Both centre back positions only received positive feedback from just 37% of Rangers fans.