Talk all you like about defensive systems and structures and so on, but when it comes down to it, nothing beats thumping the ball into the square for a big man.

Kieran McGeeney savoured his first Ulster Championship victory in five seasons as Armagh manager as a manic quarter-final tie was settled in dramatic fashion in extra-time.

Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey has received an eight-week sideline ban after he chose not to contest the proposed suspension last night.

Connor McAliskey scored a goal on his first game for Tyrone in exactly a year as the Red Hands beat Antrim 4-20 to 2-11 in the Athletic Grounds.

He would have been entitled to feel smug or wag a finger in the general direction of his detractors after a torrid 18 months, but Eamonn Burns instead used his winning platform to heap praise on his unfancied Down team after they pulled off the county’s first Ulster championship win over Armagh in 25 years.

Down scored a first Championship win over Armagh in 25 years, but they won’t be making any bold forecasts of a major breakthrough following this unconvincing success against a misfiring opponent.

Kieran McGeeney hopes the returning Jamie Clarke “gives himself the best chance” to prove his class with Armagh in 2017.

Laois came out on top a real dogfight at O’Moore Park and advance to the second round of All-Ireland qualifiers, while Armagh’s disappointing season is over.

Galway failed to score for the final 25 minutes, but held on to beat Armagh in a high-quality second round All-Ireland SFC qualifier in the Athletic Grounds yesterday.

Damien Comer’s second-half goal proved decisive as Galway marched on in the All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers, a three points win at the Athletic Grounds earning them a place in tomorrow's third round draw.

Kieran McGeeney is concerned Armagh have picked up “bad habits” in Division Three which could be exposed by Donegal in Sunday’s big Ulster SFC clash.

Limerick 1-6 Armagh 2-16

Armagh 2-8 Tipperary 0-13: Allianz Football League Division 3: Drama, controversy and passion enveloped the Athletic Grounds yesterday as Armagh staged a Lazarus-like injury-time recovery to snatch an unlikely victory from the jaws of defeat – and leave Tipperary manager Peter Creedon shell-shocked

Armagh 1-7 Tyrone 3-10

Perhaps the most depressing aspect about the ban is that it’s not really a media ban anymore. It’s more of a superstition.

Armagh 0-18 Meath 0-13

Armagh stunned Tyrone on their own Healy Park patch to score a massive derby win that takes them through to the third round of the All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers.

Another weekend, another collection of black card queries.

Super-cool substitute Rory Grugan rescued Armagh with a free deep into stoppage time, earning a replay for his side and another chance to shock Ulster champions Monaghan.

Donegal 1-10 Armagh 0-11

Armagh will field an unchanged team for the third match running when they travel to Salthill to take on Galway in the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers on Saturday.

Armagh 8-13 Leitrim 0-10

Armagh 8-13 Leitrim 0-10

Armagh manager Paul Grimley is confident that the team that throttled Wicklow can get the required result against Leitrim in Saturday's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier in Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in 5pm).

Cavan 1-15 Armagh 1-11

Cavan will have two Championship debutants in their team when they host Armagh in Sunday's Ulster SFC preliminary round tie at Kingspan Breffni Park (throw-in 2pm).

Armagh 0-21 Galway 1-12

Armagh manager Paul Grimley has made five changes to his Armagh team for Sunday's Allianz Football League clash with Wexford.

Laois 0-20 Armagh 1-10

Armagh manager Paul Grimley has selected a new-look team for Saturday's Allianz Football League Division 2 opener against Laois at O'Moore Park (throw-in 7pm).

A Jamaican specialist who analysed stomach samples from Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer said that lethal amounts of a pesticide were revealed in tests he administered.

A group of British investigators has concluded that Pakistan’s World Cup cricket coach died of heart failure from natural causes and was not strangled as local police concluded, a newspaper reported.

Police are trying to identify dozens of people captured by security cameras at the Jamaican hotel where World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered.

The officer investigating the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer today said his team has not confirmed he was incapacitated by drugs before being strangled.

Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was poisoned before being strangled, apparently rendering him unable to fight back, according to a BBC programme.

PAKISTAN cricket coach Bob Woolmer was poisoned before being strangled, apparently rendering him unable to fight back, a BBC programme says today.

The chief investigator in the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer today said the "huge and complex" inquiry needs more time before naming any suspects.

A coroner’s inquest into the killing of Pakistan’s cricket coach will begin in the Jamaican capital on April 23, the lead investigator has revealed.

Two detectives from Pakistan are helping investigate the mysterious murder of the country’s World Cup cricket coach after Jamaican police failed to make a breakthrough after more than three weeks, a security official has said.

The man in charge of the Bob Woolmer murder inquiry has described claims by Pakistan team spokesman PJ Mir that the World Cup party are not suspects as “a pretty inaccurate statement”.

DETECTIVES probing the murder of cricket coach Bob Woolmer said investigators were nowhere near identifying suspects as Pakistan’s shell shocked team prepared to head home yesterday.

POLICE investigating the murder of Bob Woolmer are not ruling out the possibility he was the victim of a professional hit.

Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the Bob Woolmer murder mystery continued their brief stay in London today.