Tag: Harry Maguire
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Too many cooks may contaminate the dish
There are very few things that grind my gears about the sporting world, but the omerta which surrounds GAA teams is certainly this corner’s Kryptonite. Especially when laid against a backdrop of Stone Age mentality within the Association clinging to amateurism like The Bull McCabe to his field. In contrast, whether it’s down to the…
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Take tonight for what it is and no more
You just knew it. The minute the under siege manager is shown the door, his erstwhile players come out and record a crucial in the Champions League. Not with a worldly performance by any means, but a damnable improvement on what they’d been producing in the closing stages of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s reign. Coincidence? Let’s…
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An uneven 50/50 split as noisy neighbours roar back
When Cork eventually beat Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship of 1987, though it was undoubtedly the end of an era, the result scarcely represented a monumental shock given the mileage which those vanquished had clocked up on their legs. In contrast, when Clare conquered The Kingdom in 1992 and Leitrim broke out of…