Deputy Group Head of Sport Mediahuis Ireland. Occasional columnist. Bewildered Luton Town fan. Had potential in the 90s. That's four things you've learned
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The fella playing the left-footed pass in the last one of these had great potential
The last batch for today is from the 2000/01 season when @ShamrockRovers played home games in Tolka Pk, Richmond Pk & Morton Stadium includes programme against Kilkenny City and an article from @tellyjohn on #ratsfromtheflats from Paths to Freedom TV show.
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Flare thrown onto side of pitch at Brandywell, probably burning a chunk of the astro, then a child runs onto pitch, picks up flare and runs off with it. Totally normal
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Watch Zinchenko play for Man City and you're not sure he's absolute top level, then you see him play among Ukraine and Scotland players and you realise the level it takes to play for Man City
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Not defending Richard Keogh's actions for a second but Derby sacking the 33-year-old who is on 25k a week for the next 18 months but keeping the two 20-somethings who are worth a few million each is a great example of how football ethics works
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Solskjaer should lock the dressing room door, give Keane a ring to come down and leave him in with the team for an hour
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Scenes in Dublin are horrendous but nobody who has worked in town for any length of time can be too surprised by hooded groups of youngfellas - and a few older ones - going around and doing whatever the hell they want
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Eamon Dunphy speaking on radio about FAI cronyism and Brian Kerr. Says Kerr should have been involved in Irish football for last 15 years and what happened him was wrong. A pity Dunphy wasn't saying it when he was on RTE panel for all those years.
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Listened to a fair bit of The Prodigy today and now watching Ajax do this. Might try the Junior Cert again
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Liverpool combined aggregate score against Bournemouth, Man Utd and Leeds Utd this season is 24-6.
Three wins and three defeats
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Bernard Brogan getting out of the house for an afternoon on his own four weeks after his wife gave birth to twins is every bit as impressive as the ACL recovery
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57 caps, many as captain, in probably Irish football's greatest era then two stints as manager all while seeming a decent bloke. History will judge McCarthy well
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€30 is pretty good value to watch Kerry v Tyrone and Armagh v Monaghan from Hill 16, particularly seeing as it'll cost you €24 to watch them both at home
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Goretzka with a goal to remember before his teammate slams his head into the ground to ensure he probably won't
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As a potential positive out of this, every club should be telling its players, members, supporters where the nearest defibrillator is to their pitch. Literally the difference between life and death
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If you were trying to define sportswashing then "using the game of golf to get to where they want to be" sums it up perfectly. And that's what McDowell and the others are proud to do, he says.
"The Khashoggi situation was reprehensible...
...But we are proud to help Saudi if they want to use #golf to get to where they want to be"
@Graeme_McDowell on why he's decided to join the £202m Saudi-backed @LIVGolfInv, despite the country's human rights record...
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Most schools are closed by 5 so they could then be opened as pubs and restaurants for the evening
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One of the all-time great bits of cheating. Got away with it and there wasn't a single QPR player who appealed
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Amazing to think that Jack Charlton left the Ireland job at a younger age than Martin O'Neill was appointed. The mind plays tricks
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Daniel Kinahan "a sometimes controversial figure" according to the Daily Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2020/…
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Pic from Carl Recine of Reuters of Willian's handball. The skill of a photographer's timing is incredible
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Dewsbury-Hall is a great advert for a loan move. 36 Championship games last season for Luton where he was brilliant. Now having a stormer against Liverpool, two days after starting against Man City
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Don't deal with a long throw, let a ball bounce, then take a wild swing at a ball in a crowded box. And Klopp will slaughter the linesman
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Just watching Roma v Barca highlights on TV3. Wonder how many pundits would rewatch a first leg in preparation as Brian Kerr says he did. Also, “big boot from Jaysus”, describing a foul from Juan Jesus, just couldn’t be said by anyone else
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Birmingham should be docked points and/or made play a couple of games behind closed doors. Then the next prat who tries that might not get applauded off
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Had this idea which quickly became like a Vietcong tunnel where it was easier to keep going than try to go back. Every player Liverpool have signed since they last won the league, their appearances, goals and paragraph on their impact. There's 203 of them in @IndoSport
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Love the idea of this fella going to Tesco in Phibsboro just before kickoff, via @sportsfilesteve
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John O'Shea had one manager in 12 years as a Manchester United player. Including caretakers, he'll soon have 11 in six years at Sunderland
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At times tonight, Kroos and Modric looked like a couple of ex-pros who join in a five-a-side with eager youngfellas and spend the next hour making them dizzy
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Look forward to explaining to the kids about Aertel/Ceefax.
"What if you were reading something on more than one page?"
"There was a Hold button."
"So then it went to next page?"
"No, you waited for it to skip all the way through."
"What if there were 5 pages?"
"Life was tough."
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The Athletic's piece on Caoimhin Kelleher hopefully means phrases like this one can reach a wider, more global audience
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An old picture but a good one of Conor Clifford, Andy Boyle and Richie Towell in their Crumlin days
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Mike Dean may not be worst decision of day. Luton's Cameron McGeehan seemingly booked for punching ground after having his leg broken
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If young Irish players want to learn what it takes to make a living out of football this is the man they should know about. An outstanding career that's still going strong
⚫️ 38 years young 🙌
⚪️ 540 minutes played in the last fortnight, more than anyone else in the squad 💪
⚫️ Club captain 🗣️
⚪️ Stayed with us through relegation 👊
⚫️ 90+3’ winner from 50 yards 👌
Some man, Michael Doyle. Enjoy your first for us because no one's more deserving 🖤
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You'd never make it through a Marty/Dessie commentary if you had a drink every time "leadership" or "inspirational" was mentioned
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As was pointed out in the office, that exit poll is so emphatic that it would even have been passed at GAA Congress
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Maybe it's the influence of The Athletic, or maybe it's likes on social media, but the amount of football journalists reporting from press boxes blatantly fan-boy cheering for one team over another is incredible
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Some difference 10 years of good ownership makes to a football club. Luton 2013, 7th in Conference and miss playoffs. Luton 2023, 3rd in Championship and playoffs for 2nd straight year
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Piece from today on what happens to rugby's best 16-year-olds v football's best 16-year-olds, and why education is needed to help them up when they fall
independent.ie/sport/soccer/…
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Three of the four Irish terrestrial TV stations with live rugby matches tonight. Pity Dundalk v Rovers can’t get a look in
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There's Dave Jones interjecting with a counterpoint. Must think people are tuning in to watch him
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Really hope the ghost writers of these pieces are well paid. Amazing the amount of people who think players just sit down and write like this in their spare time
At ages seven or eight or nine, I was not Benjamin.
I was Ribéry.
I was Zidane.
I was Henry.
@benmendy23 shares his road to the #FRA national team and his love for Les Bleus. #WC32 #WorldCup
goo.gl/pWLia8
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He's changed the whole game with that reaction. Any player would be getting hammered for it
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Not sure about the hashtag
...and it’s that time of the day to get “randomly” drug tested and only test Serena. Out of all the players it’s been proven I’m the one getting tested the most. Discrimination? I think so. At least I’ll be keeping the sport clean #StayPositive
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A memory of Tom O'Riordan that still makes me laugh is when he rang Olympian Gillian O'Sullivan's house and was told she'd gone for a walk. His response was "should I ring back in 10 minutes or three hours?" An absolute gent who was incredibly helpful to young reporters. RIP
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"Good job by the refs until I was wrongly sent off" is one of the finest speech lines heard in Croke Park
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21-year-old Rhasidat Adeleke talking about inspiring the next generation. They're inspiring this one, the next one, the last one and many others. What a brilliant bunch
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"Is there a bigger game in Everton's history?" asks Martin Keown about Wednesday's home game with West Brom. Even for a man who speaks nonsense with such intensity, that's special
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Christian Eriksen will likely play against Real Madrid twice, Liverpool and Man Utd before Ireland games.Ample chance for a hamstring strain
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Laceless Predators for a first match in 15 months. Cheaper mid-life crisis than a Merc I suppose
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Really hope Brian Kerr is commentating when Dundalk play Molde and Rapid for the pure-Dub pronunciation
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Absolute bullshit of VAR system here. Can’t review a dive that leads to first goal, don’t review a potential offside but review handball with no intent from a yard away
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This is well worth buying the paper for tomorrow. @McDonnellDan travels to Creggan to meet the people behind James McClean. Worth every one of the 5700 words
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The only thing that could make this final round better is if it was happening four hours earlier
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Politicians from different parties managed to work together, it seems, to deliver something that will benefit the country. Be great if they could now do the same with homelessness, hospital waiting lists etc
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Drunk bloke just walked into Dominos and ordered pizza, his mate told him to get it delivered so they could get a lift home. Genius
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This reminds me of Bergkamp v Newcastle where you need to watch it 10 times to figure out what he did
Just when the game looked to be getting away from them, Richie Hogan drags Kilkenny back into with a wonderfully taken goal. Kilkenny 1-15 Galway 0-20. Watch highlights on The Sunday Game at 9.30pm on @rte2 #rtegaa #thesundaygame
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This is Pete, who came to stay with us for the weekend after a little girl was very good in school this week
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"Jack Carty's awareness from being a former underage soccer international coming to the fore here"
Said absolutely nobody
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Still getting over Ger Canning’s description of Pavard’s goal - “The right technique to boot it home unceremoniously”. Hard to capture it less
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Meanwhile in Victoria
Yesterday 0 locally acquired cases were reported, 1 in hotel quarantine. It’s been 20 days since the last locally acquired case. 11,656 test results were received, #EveryTestHelps.
More later: dhhs.vic.gov.au/victorian-co… #COVID19VicData #COVID19Vic
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Column on Finn Harps, 700km on the road in five days while players are also working and the commitment and volunteerism it takes to keep a First Division club going m.independent.ie/sport/socce…
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Because the whole ground thought it was a handball for the 2nd goal and they don't show replays to prove the ref was right
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A Christmas appeal for hits: Conor McGregor wants you to read this article independent.ie/sport/other-s…
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Strange that a player being sarcastic is treated more harshly than one whose tackle might break a player's leg
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If you're looking to be a sportswriter, have a read of this. 900 words, clean, good angles and lines and filed within five minutes of the final whistle
To paraphrase a line from great fiction, for this was the greatest sporting drama, all Madrid #ucl comebacks are alike but each one amazing in its own way
You could say same for Pep collapses
It's not history repeating itself. It's history having effect
independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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Luton now have 58 goals in 24 league games this season and the one I flew over to see they drew 0-0 with Crawley
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In just over 3 years, Southampton have sold Shaw (£27m), Lallana (£25m), Lovren (£20m), Chambers (£16m), Clyne (£12.5m), Schneiderlin (£25m), Wanyama (£11m), Mane (£34m), Pelle (£12m), Fonte (£8m), Rodriguez (£12m) and Van Dijk (£75m). They also got money for Pochettino & Koeman
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You wouldn't get the level of bias Gerry Armstrong is showing from local radio commentating on their county in an All-Ireland final
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Selby's back-story - mother left at 8, father died of cancer at 16 - makes his achievements all the more remarkable dailymail.co.uk/sport/others…
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