It's been a huge year for sports, from the European Championships to the London Olympics featuring many unforgettable moments. But for every Katie Taylor punch there was a John O'Shea slip or referee tackle. We had the pleasure of bringing you those moments of sporting achievement along with a poznan sized overdraft amount of sporting ridicule.
Taking a look back at the first three months of the year that was, as they say..
January
Traditionally a month when people share stories of Harry Redknapp's latest purchase, how Declan Kidney needs to pick some new players and when the Dubs start to talk about winning back Sam. The gibberish that was had mice clicking included
Everything you need to know about Mario Balotelli - plenty more of this throughout the year
The war between Dromid and Derrytresk - a serious mill up that caused a 1300% increase in the use of the term GAA navel gazing
The now legendary trainer Peter Casey - went home to have sex and everything - for everything see Mario Balotelli posts
Sergio Ramos rows with Mourinho - from Leopardstown to the Bernabeau - and Jose gets called Mister
Roy Hodgson in Wayne's World - the party time, excellent gif of forty jobs Woy
February
This month comes with a lot of talk about the Easter break and its importance for the premier league, talk of those tries Brian O'Driscoll scored in Paris and how we all hate Martin Johnson still. This year it was a little different
The most wanted GAA Jersey of the year - buckfast started on a high note, ended under a cloud thanks to the wine tax.
Mascots refuse to shake hands - a year of handshakes and non handshakes, but did it have to go this far
Jamie Carragher lays down the law to Sky reporter - Carragher's best tackle of the year
Suarez makes his first of 45,000 bad tackles - 1920's Scott Parker takes one in the eye for Spurs
The Greatest Gif of the year - we claimed this a few times over the year, but this is in the nobel peace prize of sports gifs
March
The traditional month of the club championships, Nemo Rangers etc. More talk of Declan Kidney and Gerry Thornley punctuated by a furore about some Liverpool player.
A Man City fan sees the end of the world - premature tears for this Citeh loving stalwart, i hope he didn't give up
The Kenny Dalglish Gif that explains it all - in 1987 the gif was born, it was also the year Dalglish signed Barnes, Houghton and Aldridge and Beardsley.
German football fans and phone sex - them Germans, what with their well supported teams and their dirty sex lines
Dr Andrew Deaner - Doctor of the Year - the man who saved Fabrice Muamba's life
NSFW photo of Ireland's Keith Treacy - nobody needs to see this twice, his twitter got hacked, if you catch my drift.
What is there to learn from all this? little more than we all like to hear about an aul lad going home to get laid, a doctor saving a guy's life and want that buckfast jersey to wear to coppers.
