“I was frustrated beyond belief”

9 years ago

Reading fans are gutted he’s out now

9 years ago

We’ve all experienced it

9 years ago

Griezmann got away with it

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“I was buried and put in my place”

9 years ago

Management 101

9 years ago

Conor Murray is the Zurich IRUPA Players’ Player of the Year. The Munster man has enjoyed another wonderful season that saw his province advance to the European semi-finals and his country bury over a century of hurt with a stunning win against New Zealand. All the while, he has been effortless, he has been genius, […]

9 years ago

Ridiculous

9 years ago

We give you the jersey, you tell us if it’s adidas, Nike or whoever!

9 years ago

This seems to be the argument: Jose Mourinho is a very good manager… as long as he’s allowed to go out and buy the best players in the world. On Monday night, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher got into it on Sky Sports and, as usual, it was brilliant TV. Jose Mourinho was the subject of […]

9 years ago

Club notes are what the GAA is all about

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They’re in every club

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This was tight but Carragher pipped it

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Ulster teams being screwed over again

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This is embarrassing for Mourinho

9 years ago

This rule could bite them in the arse

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Pure wisdom

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Going for five-in-a-row

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Can he inspire a championship upset?

9 years ago

When will this madness end?

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Controversial

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Jack McCaffrey, the two-time All-Ireland winner, is taking nothing for granted. Jack McCaffrey, the most direct, most pacy attacker from deep has fear of not making the team just like anyone. Jack McCaffrey, one of the most tenacious backs in the game, is reserved when it comes to talking up his own game. This is […]

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Warren Gatland is hoping Conor Murray can get a game for Munster before the season is out. The Irish scrumhalf hasn’t played since the Six Nations loss to Wales in March but, with just one game left of the regular Pro 12 campaign, he could make an appearance that will boost both the province and […]

9 years ago

Every team, at some stage or another, has had a chat about media protocol. They would’ve discussed what questions not to answer, which journalist to avoid, what stage of the year it was okay to do an interview. They might’ve gone through stock answers, deflection tactics, and whatever else to make sure no team could […]

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Humble big man too

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If you want to make it, it has to be done

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This is class

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Off to the midlands

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Listen, this is what Jose Mourinho does. He builds very, very good teams, he makes them tighter and tighter defensively and he sends them out safe in the knowledge that they should easily – logically at least – win 30 of their games. The other eight? He just doesn’t want to lose them. When was […]

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What a man

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“I just heard this sharp ripping… ping, ping, ping”

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Bundee Aki’s season could be over. And although he has another year left in his contract, you’d fear that his whole bloody Connacht career could be over too if he decides to leave after this campaign. Hopefully not. The Pro 12 Player of the Season has been hit with a three-game ban for his remonstrating with […]

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Marc Ó Sé has seen his fair share of training camps. The Kerry legend was heading off to all sorts of destinations with his county for over a decade. He’s experienced the badness, the messing, the drinking and the camps that were simply too much on the squad, physically. He has a decent idea of […]

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This is a joke

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Everything he does is just class

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You’ve lost… but WHY did you lose? There was a reason – there were loads of them – and everyone must know. Don’t be afraid to get straight into it – hit them with your excuses as early and as often as possible. Understrength team Mention this in the first line. “An understrength senior team travelled to […]

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What a joke

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“It must be good to play in front of these fans – every weekend.” It’s rare to find a man coming from a different country and still so intensely passionate about a club. You’d think Ander Herrera grew up crying for Manchester United and then came through the ranks sweating for them, ready to bleed […]

9 years ago

Two nice men, two great men – it’s only right that they can at least see eye to eye. And what better way to achieve such harmony than in the presence of love on the west coast of Ireland at Rory McIlroy’s wedding? Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia have had a colourful past. They’ve seen […]

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Listen, it doesn’t matter how much commitment you show your club, you’re at college so you deserve all the grief you get. That’s the way it goes. Up and down the country, club teams are all promising that this year they’re going to go above and beyond […]

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“Jesus, we’re 10 points down. Let’s not make it any worse.” Joe Canning doesn’t have to look too far back through his career to remember the bad days. One of them almost came only three weeks ago in Pearse Stadium when Waterford were toying with Micheál Donoghue in the league quarter-final. With the game running to […]

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He is going to make a huge difference

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More GAA jerseys should be like this

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It’s all give and no take in the GAA world. Ask not what your club or county can do for you… but what you can do for them. That’s the gist of it. That’s the whole game. You spend the best part of three decades reporting for training on someone else’s time, moving in training […]

9 years ago

The cavalry are coming. We bang on about Tyrone not having a real top class forward but, in the space of two club games, you’d be made a fool for ever doubting the talent in the county. One man can score 3-14 in 60 minutes of football like it’s nothing. All 3-14 of Tyrone man's […]

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This guy is unreal

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If you cut CJ Stander open, he would bleed red. There’s an old saying from the Spartan days used as a final rallying cry for the legendary soldiers of Sparta: “Come back with your shield – or on it…” The message was simple: if you’re going to go down, go down fighting. Go down with […]

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What is this about?

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Never needs to change

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Lionel Messi takes it as an insult when you call someone else the greatest player in the world. The Argentinian’s talents know no bounds. His trickery and sorcery know no limitations. He is, by almost every definition of the word, superhuman. Barcelona were uncharacteristically underpar in Sunday night’s El Clasico. They’ve been in dreadful form, […]

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