Judging by the extensive reporting yesterday of the conversation that led to the dismissal as Irish manager of Giovanni Trapattoni, the Aer Rianta VIP area in Dublin Airport must have been a densely populated area on Wednesday morning.

Luxembourg 3 Northern Ireland 2

Justin Bieber wants his pet monkey to housed in a zoo.

Northern Ireland 1 Luxembourg 1

Tigers In Red Weather

A SENIOR Cork camogie official last night admitted to being “astonished and disgusted” at the nominations for the sport’s manager of the year award.

CAMOGIE President Liz Howard hopes the GAA will continue to pair their junior and senior finals with the All-Ireland U21 hurling championship decider in Croke Park as they do on Sunday for the third consecutive year.

BRIAN WHELAHAN is expected to link up with the Offaly panel for pre-season training in the coming weeks.

CONFERENCE club Burton booked their place in the second round of the FA Cup after knocking out League Two Peterborough.

EVERYONE said she was a gem. Now, just eight ounces of cremated remains is all it takes to turn your mother into a diamond.

Derby: Camp, Kenna, Mills, Huddlestone, Jackson, Bisgaard, Taylor, Idiakez, Reich, Smith, Rasiak. Subs: Grant, Junior, Johnson, Bolder, Tudgay.

ANDRE AGASSI overcame a record 51 aces by Joachim Johansson yesterday and set up an Australian Open quarter-final against defending champion Roger Federer.

Birmingham-born Darren Carter struck twice to ensure a comfortable passage into the fourth round of the FA Cup for Steve Bruce’s side, who brushed off the absence of the suspended Robbie Savage.

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Leeds v Wigan teams

Prince Joachim, second in line to the Danish throne, is to divorce his British wife, a spokesman for the royal family said today.

Plymouth: Larrieu, Connolly, Wotton, Coughlan, Gilbert, Norris, Friio, Makel, Capaldi, Evans, Keith. Subs: Hodges, Lasley, Milne, Crawford, Adams.

Former Leicester and Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim has completed his move to Leeds after passing a medical.

Leeds are set to sign Coventry striker Julian Joachim and Wolves defender Paul Butler.

Leeds striker Mark Viduka is poised to begin talks with Middlesbrough over a move to the Riverside next week.

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Coventry 1 Sunderland 1

THE US Postal team are confident they will deliver a gift-wrapped fifth victory for their leader Lance Armstrong in the centenary-year running of the Tour de France which gets underway today.

Sheffield Wednesday boosted their First Division survival hopes with a superb five-goal demolition of hapless Coventry at Hillsborough tonight.

Coventry striker Julian Joachim has suffered yet another injury setback – just hours before he was due to return in the reserves.

Sunderland have completed the signing of Swedish international Joachim Bjorklund from Italian club Venezia for a fee of £1.5million (€2.46m).

Aston Villa’s patience in pursuing Mustapha Hadji has been rewarded with the Coventry City midfielder joining the Midlands club in a £4.5m swap deal.

Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim has blamed a lack of first-team opportunities for his imminent departure to Coventry.

Mustapha Hadji's proposed move from Coventry City to Aston Villa is in danger of falling through due to a cash dispute.

The line-ups for today's Premiership matches.

Julian Joachim believes Aston Villa can make a late dash up the Premiership table.

Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim took his tally to five goals from six games today and won plaudits for his performance.

Aston Villa have come from a goal down to beat Ipswich in their Premiership clash at Villa Park.

Julian Joachim has set himself a stiff 15-goal target by the end of the season as he looks to finally lose the tag of Aston Villa supersub.

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Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim will miss Sunday's FA Cup third round tie at Newcastle.