Not for the first time, Eamon Dunphy looked on the verge of tears in analysing Sunday’s world soccer showpiece, which was...
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Empty rhetoric
Empty rhetoric
So there were 35,000-and-something at the match, eh? And where might the other 20,000 have fitted in to fill the stadium to its...
Empty rhetoric
Empty rhetoric
So there were 35,000-and-something at the match, eh? And where might the other 20,000 have fitted in to fill the stadium to its...
Choice Words
Choice Words
“You know, I used to follow the soccer across channel but, recently, I’ve just become disgusted with it. I think all the money...
No-one does drama like the Déise
No-one does drama like the Déise
There are degrees of controversy and everything has a context. The furore over the carry-on in Croke Park on Sunday owes itself...
Siblings rivalry among Munster Final miscellany
Siblings rivalry among Munster Final miscellany
Related to a hurler It’s conceivable that at some point in Sunday’s proceedings five sets of siblings could be on the field of...
Reality bites as egos crash land
Reality bites as egos crash land
Seeing is believing, and the blinkers were finally removed from a nation in Bloemfontein on Sunday. For while the match...
The camera doesn’t lie
The camera doesn’t lie
At the break RTÉ’s analysis focused on the farcical goal that wasn’t and the refusal of FIFA president Blatter to allow...
Anyone for tennis elbow?
Anyone for tennis elbow?
The greatest tennis match of all time? Well, John Isner versus Nicolas Mahut at SW19 was, at 11hrs 5mins, the longest by a...
Courage in Cork
Courage in Cork
Hurling-mad Ballygunner boys Kevin Mahoney, Tadhg Foley (centre) and Patrick Fitzgerald pictured at last Saturday evening’s...
The Gaul of it
The Gaul of it
Take the famously temperamental French to cheat us out of a chance at being there, then they go and do a Saipan, and not even...
Top practitioner
Top practitioner
I kid you not. Press release sent to ME sports email central on Monday: ‘2009 Footballer of the Year, Kerry’s Paul Galvin was on...
