In Friday night’s live TV Airtricity League game between Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians, we had a strong contender for worst refereeing decision of the season. Less than two weeks after Tom Connolly gave Pats a penalty in Drogheda for this, Neil Doyle awarded Shamrock Rovers a penalty for this to overtake him. As RTE commentator on the night Brian Kerr said; “It hit him in the mush!R... »
Former Shelbourne and Bohemians striker Paddy Madden opened the scoring for Yeovil Town in their League One play off final against Brentford Town at Wembley with this brilliant strike with the outside of his right boot. h/t @Feintzebra »
Plenty of ups and downs in week 11 of the Airtricity League. Here’s our take-aways. 1) Summer football is a myth Last night’s game between Sligo Rovers and Dundalk was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. Sligo’s pitch is always one of the league’s best but severe rain gave the referee no option to call it off. With FAI and League Cup ties in the next forthnight and Champ... »
Yesterday’s try celebration by Toulon and England’s Delon Armitage sparked a big debate among rugby fans with many current and former pros giving their opinion on twitter, including ex-England captain and BBC commentator Brian Moore. Heineken – if a player did to me what Armitage has just done I’d have to chin him after the touchdown. — Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) M... »
A short time ago Stoke fan site “PickStoke” tweeted a rumour that Irish midfielder Glenn Whelan had put a pig’s head in the locker of team mate Kenwyne Jones Unconfirmed: G. Whelan placed a pigs head in K.Jones’ locker and Jones has retaliated by smashing Whelan’s car window. #scfc — Pick Stoke (@PickStoke) May 17, 2013 This picture posted by US midfielder Brek Shea o... »
10 games in the Airtricity League this weekend, including the return of live games on RTE2. Here’s our pick of the weekend storylines to follow. 1) Can Dundalk join the title race and beat Sligo Rovers? Dundalk are currently sitting in 4th position, only 6 points behind leaders Sligo Rovers. While Rovers have won only 1 of their last 5 games, Dundalk have won 4 of their last 5. Those 12 po... »
The new Minnesota Vikings stadium design was unveiled yesterday and as you can see in this video ‘fly-through’ it’s a pretty unique structure. The 65,000 seater stadium (which can be increased to 73,000 for special events like the Superbowl according to the Minneapolis StarTribune) eschewed the current trend for retractable roofs for a glass structure that will allow natural li... »
During today’s ninth stage of the Giro D’Italia, the crowds lined the roads on the mountains on the way to Altopiano del Montasio. Keep watching the right hand side of the screen to see what happened one spectator. We have this GIF for you; Or you can watch the video… In the actual race, Sky’s Colombian climber Rigoberto Uran won the stage with Italian favourite Vincenzo N... »
Barcelona secured their 22nd Spanish title over the weekend and the obligatory open top bus parade happened this evening. Club captain Carlos Puyol is enjoying it anyway. A bit of playful fighting with centre back partner Gerard Pique in this GIF; Posing topless like a rock star for the cameras; Puyol wasn’t content being the only topless Barca superstar so decided to strip Victor Valdes too... »
On Saturday night Real Madrid travelled to Barcelona knowing anything less than a win against Espanyol would hand the La Liga title to Espanyol’s cross-city rivals Barcelona. When Espanyol took the lead through Uruguayan Christian Stuani, he made himself an enemy of Cristiano Ronaldo. “Enjoy” the Ronaldo spit GIF; Despite a second half equaliser from Higuan, Madrid and... »
Week 10 of the Airtricity League doesn’t finish until tomorrow evening, but here’s our pick of the weekend’s story lines. 1) Shamrock Rovers win the first Trophy of the Year As you can see from the highlights above, Shamrock Rovers thumped Drogheda UnIted 7-1 to win the Setanta Sports Cup on Saturday. It was a thoroughly impressive showing from the Tallaght side and if they can r... »
We’ve already shown you the final minute of Watford Leicester in yesterday’s Championship play-off semi final as TV saw it, as those watching Sky Sports News Soccer Saturday saw it and as how the BBC saw it. To those people it was just entertainment. To these Watford fans it meant so much more; The funniest part of the audio is the “They’ve done a Doncaster!” in refer... »
Last night Shelbourne’s Brian Shortall was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Dundalk’s Tiarnan Mulvenna. Today Mulvenna showed his scar off on twitter with a little barb at Shortall. Shortall responded. The scars indicate he was hit by something anyway Shortall’s red card was Shels’ fifth of the season. Well on the way to reaching our pre-season prediction of a ... »
You probably heard during the week that Manchester United Manager Alex Ferguson retired. Many, many pundits have speculated on the reasons for this. On Sky Sports’ Soccer AM programme this morning, this shocking video was shown: Co-incidence? »
