Steven Gerrard has been sacked and the Aston Villa owners ‘are going to be ambitious in finding a replacement’, but are they barking up the wrong tree with Mauricio Pochettino. Pochettino is out of a job having been let go by Paris Saint-Germain in the summer. He was among the candidates to take over at […]
PAUL O’CONNELL WAS thrilled with Ireland’s defensive effort to keep a powerful South African team at bay for long portions of the 29-15 victory at the Aviva Stadium this evening. Heyneke Meyer’s side enjoyed long periods of possession in the first half particularly, but Ireland racked up a tackle count that exceeded 120 to repeatedly […]
Bobby Decordova-Reid and Willian scored second-half goals as Fulham won 3-2 at Elland Road to send Leeds spiralling into the Premier League’s bottom three. Click Here: Belgium soccer tracksuit A fourth straight defeat has further cranked up the pressure on Leeds head coach Jesse Marsch, whose side’s winless run was extended to eight matches. It […]
SUNDAY’S MEETING WITH Georgia may be seen as extraneous in the context of Ireland’s November work-out but the fixture represents an opportunity for those on the periphery to impress and offers Eoin Reddan the chance to do something he never even contemplated doing. On the occasion of his 57th international cap, the Leinster scrum-half will […]
Chelsea have appointed Joe Shields as their new co-director of recruitment and talent after fruitful spells with Southampton and Manchester City. Shields, 35, will leave St Mary’s less than four months after joining them from the Premier League champions as their head of senior recruitment. Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly and co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali told the […]
Ireland train in the fog. Source: Billy Stickland/INPHO HomeA week of retirements continued as Kilkenny’s Tommy Walsh announced his departure from the inter-county scene. The Ireland rugby team was named as they look to complete a clean sweep of the November Internationals.Brian O’Driscoll and his wife Amy Huberman welcomed a future Ireland captain into the world.Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry […]
HAVING LOOKED AT the Irish defensive effort in the first half against Australia in an earlier piece, we turn our attention to the second-half improvements here. As we pointed out in piece one of this analysis, there were positive elements from the Irish defence early on, particularly in the opening minutes when Paul O’Connell and […]
Jurgen Klopp has been told that he should “give up” on two Liverpool players while Darwin Nunez is only a “minor upgrade” on Divock Origi. Liverpool have rightly come under fire this season as they have lost four of their first 12 games in the Premier League. Three of these losses have come this month […]
The list of husband-and-wife WWE Superstars kept growing as it was reported by WrestlingInc.com and confirmed later by multiple sources that former NXT champion Aleister Black and Zelina Vega have tied the knot. The two have been dating for a while but always kept their relationship under wraps. But on November 23, Vega uploaded a […]
Paris Saint-Germain finished second in their Champions League group after a dramatic conclusion saw Benfica pip them on away goals scored. A stoppage-time goal from Joao Mario completed a 6-1 win for the Portuguese side at Maccabi Haifa and edged them above PSG in Group H, despite the French side winning 2-1 at Juventus courtesy of […]