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Reds walk on with a little more hope in their hearts
Thursday, May 27, 2004
TODAY, they say, is the first day of the rest of your life, and for long suffering followers of Liverpool FC this is certainly the case.
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League Final whets appetite for what the Championship could bring
Thursday, May 06, 2004
MAY Day weekend in Croke Park and not an anarchist in sight. No water cannons deployed to drive back any rogue wing forward with designs on breaching the defensive lines. No baton charges from Northern defenders in riot gear.
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Harrington in line for some Major success
Thursday, April 15, 2004
THERE’S a few letters you don’t want after your name if you’re a professional sports person – like THG or EPO – but in the world of professional golf (thankfully not (yet) mired by doping) there’s one set of letters you don’t want as a suffix TGPNTHWAM.
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Tour de Farce as Roche linked to doping scandal
Thursday, April 01, 2004
WHEN one thinks of the really great moments in Irish sport of the last 20 years or so, there is always one stand out moment that – for this observer anyhow – makes the hairs bristle on the back of the neck.
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When sport is a matter of life and death
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Strange the way news of death always seems to come in the waking hour, when our confused senses almost act as a screening effect to the grim tidings.
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Declan O'Keeffe's decision to retire is totally sane
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Think of goalkeepers and you generally think of madness. In soccer there was Germany's Harald Schumacher with his reckless tackles, the Paraguayan Jose Luis Chilavert with his blinding jerseys and penchant for taking (and scoring) penalty kicks and free kicks, and the utterly insane Colombian Rene Higuita, who had the sheer lunacy to try that scorpion kick clearance against England at Wembley.
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Irish should fear the singing from the Welsh valleys
Thursday, February 19, 2004
OKAY, so the Full Back tried to champion the cause of the Welsh soccer team a couple of months back and we saw where that got us.
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Field of pipe-dreams to become a reality?
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
IN the end Bertie had to settle for a makeover on the chipped saucer in de city rather than get his spanking new bone china bowl out in the suburbs.
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Kerry’s quiet man can say a lot
Thursday, January 15, 2004
OKAY, so everyone has an opinion on the Kerry captaincy, the method of electing the Kerry captain and on the Kerry captain himself.
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Familiar faces in far off places
Thursday, January 08, 2004
The dust has hardly settled on the GAA year that was and we’re up and running again.
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