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Our man inside the game turned up at Wembley yesterday and that was also as much as Liverpool managed.

A museum in Dublin has won a prize for innovation.

Ousmane Dembele has formally completed his €146m move to Barcelona and been paraded on the pitch at the Nou Camp.

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Borussia Dortmund's Champions League game against Monaco has been postponed until tomorrow after three explosions around the team bus.

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Gotze has been ruled out of action for the foreseeable future after the cause of his long-term muscle problems was found to be linked to his metabolism.

Authorities across Europe are hunting a Tunisian man suspected of killing 12 people by driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender.

California Chrome will bid to add his name to the list of great American horses to have won the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita tonight. 

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is not a man to hold back his emotions on the touchline but he expects his players to keep their cool in his first Merseyside derby.

With Saturday’s encounter being our last ever London derby at the Boleyn, there was absolutely no way I was going to do the sensible thing and stop indoors to watch the game on the box, despite having been struck down by a debilitating lurgy last week.

Jan Olsson, the Swedish defender fooled by Johan Cruyff’s brilliant dummy at the 1974 World Cup, has revealed how he and his team-mates exploded into laughter after witnessing the winger’s most famous skill.

There were three veterans of Italy’s 2006 World Cup triumph missing when the team met up at the Coverciano training centre in Florence yesterday to prepare for matches against Spain and Germany.

Three survivors spoke of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of dead people at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz camp at the trial of a former guard accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.

This is going to take years, isn’t it? Bring a good book next time.

Jurgen Klopp tells a story about playing a hypothetical game of tennis against a three-year-old girl. It would be no fun, he said, if he smashed the ball at her and won easily while she stood and watched. He’d rather play table-tennis against someone his own age and lose.

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Arsenal 2 Stoke 0: Arsene Wenger has a selection problem going into a vital run of early season games. Some might argue the problem is of his own making, but he has to chose between strikers Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud at a time when both need a run of games to increase their goalscoring confidence.

Arsene Wenger has said Theo Walcott is likely to pen a new deal at Arsenal very soon — and has backed him to score plenty of goals this season.

Police have again began searching the back garden of the apartment where missing Cork student Karen Buckley was last seen,  Brian O'Donnell has lost his appeal against the repossession of his former mansion and Jurgen Klopp leaves Dortmund. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Stud owner Mary McCann confirmed yesterday that she had two clones from her deceased stallion Cruising. 

It was on Monday morning that Cameron Hanley found out he was to lose the ride on all but one of his top horses, taking to Facebook to say ‘it breaks my heart’.

Marco Reus says that not even he knows what led him not to take a driving test after he was fined €540,000 for driving without a licence.

Steven Naismith believes his Everton team-mate Aiden McGeady has the guile to ensure Ireland go one better than Scotland in next month’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Germany.

Scotland put up a spirited show in their first Euro 2016 qualifying match, going down 2-1 to world champions Germany.

Germany and Argentina lock horns tonight in a repeat of July’s World Cup final but international retirements and injuries mean Joachim Low and Gerardo Martino will field much-changed sides from that memorable night in Rio.

Playing Germany away in their opening 2016 Euro qualifier comes at the worst of times and the best of times for Scotland, according to midfielder James Morrison.

Mark McGhee does not see any weaknesses in the Germany team but is optimistic about Scotland’s chances in their 2016 European Championship clash next Sunday.

Celtic midfielder Callum McGregor has won a call-up to the Scotland squad for next month’s clash with world champions Germany.

Last June one year, a Scottish team replete with journeymen pros without a win in any of the six competitive games they had played up until then in their World Cup qualifying campaign, travelled to Zagreb and came away with a 1-0 win against the world’s then fourth-highest ranked side.

Rolf Buchholz has 453 piercings, 278 of those 'in the genital area'

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Paul Lambert admits Aston Villa head into today’s clash with Swansea (3pm) “a million miles” from where he wants the club to be.

After enduring the Gunners’ all-too frequent failures to blow opportunities in the recent past, I’ve come to detest the inevitable psychological impact of appearing later in the weekend than our competitors.

Remember, remember - we’re shit in November - that ditty seems to be the case no matter our opponents, or our manager.