Tag: Rangers FC
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Bruno strikes knockout blow as ferris wheel goes up again
MANCHESTER UNITED… 2 RANGERS… 1 Only hours before production of what you are now reading commenced, from the same space emerged pertaining to the picking of Eoghan Frayne and Ciaran Caulfield as captain and vice captain respectively of the Meath senior football team. The point was made, and will be again, that while surprise at…
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Selected Europa League groupings
Ironically, with a dastardly international break commencing after the meeting of Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday evening, the first sign of the new soccer season ratcheting up a gear or two arrived on Friday with the draws taking place for the Europa League and Europa Conference League group stages. Personally, it was the group…
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Toffees in a sticky situation of their own making
No matter what the sport, there will be characters who will forever be intrinsically linked to particular entities therein. For example, Kobe Bryant with the LA Lakers or Gary Neville being a one club man at Manchester United, Cian Healy in the blue of Leinster Rugby or Ruby Walsh aboard a Willie Mullins-trained horse. It’s…
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Emery back in England
Aston Villa have turned to Unai Emery to replace the defenestrated Steven Gerrard as they seek to extricate themselves from the relegation dogfight near the foot of the Premier League table. It marks a return to English football for Emery who previously had an underwhelming stint in charge of Arsenal, having been serially successful in…
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Selections for Naas – Feb. 12th 2022
1.05: BEN SIEGEL (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 1.40: O’TOOLE – W/O FAV – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD) 2.15: HARALD HARDRAD (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 2.50: GOVEN (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.25: FAIR MINDED – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA/DES MCDONOGH) 4.00: ELIMAY (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: ASK DMAN – W/O FAV – (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.00: ICARE DAUBRELLE – EW…
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Gerrard playing the long game with percentage call
Bastions of the bandwagon are one of the few sporting phenomena yours truly cannot stomach. Fair weather followers is another acronym attributed to the same lot. It usually is followers, you see. There’s usually obvious telltale signs, they’ll be over the top if the need arises to decorate, will become expert ‘analysts’ overnight and everything…