Tag: Leicester City
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Carabao Cup semi final draw
Manchester United will come up against their former midfielder Jesse Lingard at the penultimate hurdle in the Carabao Cup after being drawn against Steve Cooper’s Nottingham Forest. Which of course means that the transformed Newcastle United will take on Southampton in the other last four encounter. The struggling men from the south coast of England…
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United get early Christmas gift in Carabao draw
The chances of Erik ten Hag guiding Manchester United to silverware in his first season in charge still look decent after the Old Trafford club were pitted against Charlton Athletic at the third last hurdle in the Caraboa Cup. Goals from Christian Erikssen and Marcus Rashford eased an experienced looking line up past Vincent Kompany’s…
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The wheels came off the wagon long before Ole lost control
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has been sacked. The latest chapter in the half sporting tragedy, half farce that has been life at Old Trafford came to its sad but inevitable conclusion as the former forward was brought to book in the wake of yesterday’s latest humiliation, against Watford at Vicarage Road. The sporting tragedy here is…
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The obvious answer is often the only one
It’s funny how the wheels of time often come full circle. In the autumn of 1995, the late Shane McEntee TD ran against Sean Boylan for the position of Meath senior football manager. This being against the babkdrop of the ten point drubbing against Dublin in the Leinster Final. The Nobber native, who was a…
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Selections for Cork – Sept. 28th 2021
1.15: PIRATE JENNY (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 1.50: MARKIEVICZ – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 2.25: GOLDEN DAYS – EW – (CIAN MACREDMOND (5)/TRACEY COLLINS) 3.00: ROXETTE (RONAN WHELAN/MICK HALFORD) 3.35: NOTRE BELLE (CHRIS HAYES/DARREN BUNYAN) 4.05: OODNADATTA – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.35: RIVER DERWENT (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.10: GATSBY CAP – EW –…
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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…
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Dunboyne’s twin towers ready for next career chapter
On a particularly warm Saturday in April 2015, around midday, Meath defeated Offaly in a Leinster Minor Football League game in a practically deserted Pairc Tailteann. There were two Dunboyne clubmen in green and gold that day – David McEntee and Conor Keeley. The latter marking his first – and sadly only – outing in…