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Armagh v Galway - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final
Tommy Martin: Gaelic football's blurred lines between decency and disgrace
For some of the GAA’s detractors, complaining about violence in Gaelic football is like a diner suggesting to a waiter that his soup is a bit wet.

Thu, 30 Jun, 2022

Tommy Martin: Mané's low-key business-like ending adds to his legend
Tommy Martin: Mané's low-key business-like ending adds to his legend
Mané’s departure was a low-key one for a man who can reasonably be said to be one of the most important players in recent Premier League history

Thu, 23 Jun, 2022

Nathan Collins scores the first goal 14/6/2022
Tommy Martin: Was our passion for the Nations League just a summer fling?
International football was bumped off Virgin Media Two in favour of Love Island.

Thu, 16 Jun, 2022

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Tommy Martin: Paid stooges on a magic golfing journey to change the world
LIV Golf is just one front in Saudi Arabia’s long war to position itself as a thrusting global player while still maintaining its cruel, repressive power structure

Thu, 09 Jun, 2022

Derry v Donegal - Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship Final
Tommy Martin: The Ulster championship is Gaelic football’s great constitutional dilemma 
Where other provincial finals are flaccid and perfunctory, in Clones the air hangs heavy and the tension is tight like a drum

Thu, 02 Jun, 2022

Tyrone v Derry - Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship Quarter-Final
Tommy Martin: Donegal must be ready for a Rory reckoning 
There are several reasons why the Derry manager might want not just to defeat Sunday’s Ulster final opponents...

Thu, 26 May, 2022

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Tommy Martin: It’s 20 years since you-know-what but does Saipan still matter?
This weekend in 2002, the sporting tragedy/theatre (depending on your take) of our lifetime was about to erupt on an island few had even heard of. How many column inches have been afforded to a two-decade-old row between the recently sacked manager of Cardiff City and a famously irascible TV pundit?

Sat, 21 May, 2022

Peterborough United v Blackpool - Sky Bet Championship
Tommy Martin: Jake Daniels shows us all what a real man looks like
Jake is a 17-year-old Blackpool striker, with nine minutes of Championship football under his belt, who became the UK’s first active male professional footballer to come out in over three decades

Thu, 19 May, 2022

PIF Saudi International - Previews
Tommy Martin: Norman and Saudis going to war for the freedom to make greedy golfers richer
This is a territorial battle over prime commercial real estate – the worldwide interest in young men in slacks hitting little white balls.

Thu, 12 May, 2022

BSC Young Boys v Villarreal CF: Group F - UEFA Champions League
Tommy Martin: Everyone has a plan until they let the ball run through their legs
Geronimo Rulli of Villarreal became the latest misfortune to suffer the fate of the 'dodgy keeper'.

Wed, 04 May, 2022

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