Not happy

10 years ago

Down with this sort of thing. Obviously UEFA don’t appreciate the value of a real impact. Well, in case they didn’t know, it looks a little something like this. Okay, Mathieu Flamini wasn’t the reason Arsenal lost to Barcelona on Tuesday but he – along with Mertesacker too of course – was the reason the […]

10 years ago

He didn’t find it as funny as the journalists. You’d despair at the lack of flight mode knowledge amongst the English media but this was an innocent enough mistake. A reporter at the Liverpool press conference was caught out with the old full memory problem on Wednesday when his dictaphone started beeping to signal disaster. […]

10 years ago

Line them up. Conor McGregor isn’t too bothered. He told Dana White after learning of Rafael dos Anjos’ injury that he would “fight anyone.” That’s why he’s going one further again. From featherweight, to lightweight and now to welterweight to face Nate Diaz. He’s ready. And, whilst the MMA world has gone into crisis lockdown […]

10 years ago

Someone tell him

10 years ago

Gruesome

10 years ago

“If you’re not playing regularly, going into a regular competition can be a problem.” Martin O’Neill has a few months yet before any big decisions are made but he intends on using all the time he can. The Republic of Ireland international manager was up for questions on TV3’s Champions League coverage of Arsenal and […]

10 years ago

Cruel. But funny. If you didn’t hear, Arsenal lost 2-0 in the Champions League second round to Barcelona. They were at home. So that means Barcelona have two away goals as well… Arsenal were actually alright but Lionel Messi scored twice and Olivier Giroud and Mathieu Flamini ballsed up for the hosts to put the […]

10 years ago

Ah lads

10 years ago

Hasaan Hawthorne, remember the name. 18 years of age, from Alabama, a perfect wrestling record. Hawthorne is the new state wrestling champion after a 37-win season and his story is inspiring the world. A double amputee, the Huntsville native had his feet and legs amputated at the knees at just four months old because of […]

10 years ago

Legend

10 years ago

He can’t even be romantic

10 years ago

Glenavon will have to do without their main man for six matches. Star striker Eoin Bradley has been handed a six-game suspension for a head-butting offence during a clash with Crusaders on February 12 in the IFA Premiership. After a coming-together with Crues captain Colin Coates, Bradley received a straight red card from referee Raymond Hetherington […]

10 years ago

Don’t shoot the messenger

10 years ago

Back in your box

10 years ago

It’s all going on. The war between Manny Pacquiao and Nike rumbles on but the Filipino boxer is taking the high ground. Today. After Nike took a stand for the LGBT community rights and terminated Pacquiao’s contract with them when he said that animals were better than homosexuals, it hasn’t died down. On Friday, the […]

10 years ago

You beautiful man

10 years ago

Donald Cerrone isn’t just a striker. In the welterweight division, fighting Alex Oliveira at short notice, the 32-year-old proved some of the doubters wrong with what wasn’t just a classy takedown, but a damn right scary submission. In frightening quick time too. The American moved his UFC record to 16-4 with this Fight Night 83 […]

10 years ago

Imagine. Gigi Buffon, the legend that is, was close to plying his trade in the Premier League. Not once, not twice, but thrice. The Italian stopper – one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest – revealed that he was approached on three different occasions by three English rivals at three different time […]

10 years ago

2806/1

10 years ago

Apart from a cruciate injury

10 years ago

This went on way too long

10 years ago

Karma

10 years ago

Fair play

10 years ago

Louis van Gaal gets the vote of confidence

10 years ago

Would you take him back?

10 years ago

On me ‘ead

10 years ago

He shoots, he scores. Right? Paul McShane is a man on form. We’re power ranking the Republic of Ireland squad and, on current form, the Wicklow natives makes the Ireland XI for Euro 2016. It’s science. And he’s proving the science works. 1-0 down in the fifth round of the FA Cup against Premier League […]

10 years ago

“There’s one man I have to mention before I go any further and that’s Dave Billings.” There was one man missing from the joyful UCD celebrations on Saturday. But there was one man at the forefront of everyone’s minds. For 20 years, University College Dublin felt Sigerson drought but, this weekend, inspired by Westmeath man […]

10 years ago

Fair play

10 years ago

Seven steps of sending a tweet

10 years ago

Ban these at Congress

10 years ago

Ball as it was supposed to be played?

10 years ago

Never a dull moment. Cristiano Ronaldo was the hero for Real Madrid on Wednesday night and he showed glimpses that he is back to his very best with another delightful goal. But it seems that he just couldn’t let the whole Messi rivalry go. The Portuguese legend walked out of a press conference on Tuesday […]

10 years ago

Don’t call it a comeback. Cristiano Ronaldo, the man, the myth, the legend. He’s returned. In the build-up to Real Madrid’s 2-0 UEFA Champions League win in Roma, the gauntlet was laid for one of the greatest players of all time. He had to do it in Europe. His 2016 form under Zidane had threatened […]

10 years ago

“He’s always around”

10 years ago

Strong support

10 years ago

Scary

10 years ago

Different shape

10 years ago

Fitting for a king

10 years ago

March 24th 2010. Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 1. Boos ring out around Villa Park. Vicious boos. A midweek draw with Ricky Sbragia’s side mean Martin O’Neill’s men have tied two games in five days at Villa. As a result, Villa have missed out on a chance to go top of the league. The Holte End don’t like it. They […]

10 years ago

La Liga excellence no longer enough

10 years ago

Chelsea are sorry they started now

10 years ago

What the

10 years ago

No hiding from the numbers. The run-in to France is well and truly on and Martin O’Neill has over 40 players to mull over before selecting his final 23-man squad. The Republic of Ireland head for Euro 2016 with 25 men having already tasted qualifier action. Over a dozen more have been involved in preliminary squads […]

10 years ago

Un-f*cking-believable

10 years ago

The greatest ever

10 years ago

The video they wouldn’t show at the World MMA Awards

10 years ago

The Down support will be hoping for an away game every week. Against a team who wears black and red too because their new golden number is a gem. The Mourne men unveiled another O’Neill’s jersey on Friday and it’s nothing short of pristine. Down wore a gold top (which turned out more yellow) in […]

10 years ago

So good you’ll want to cry

10 years ago