MORTEN GAMST PEDERSEN feels Blackburn’s win over Fulham on Saturday has proved there is life beyond the bottom three in the Premier League.

Despite the shocking scenes from last Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final between Kerry club Dromid Pearses and Tyrone’s Derrytresk, many people within the wider GAA community accept a ‘melee’ as part and parcel of our games, claims Ray Silke .

Stephen Ferris says the Ulster and Munster players in the Ireland camp have not yet cranked up the slagging ahead of April’s Heineken Cup quarter-final.

I’ve never seen singing as work.

Four managers have come and gone, countless millions has been squandered on players not good enough to wear the shirt and many a tear has been shed.

It was a battle between the competition specialists and newcomers in this Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday afternoon.

Harry Redknapp threatened to “sue the bollocks” off a journalist as the football boss and his former employer gave conflicting excuses for an alleged offshore tax fiddle, a court heard yesterday.

ULSTER Council delegate Pat Darcy has warned other counties to stop pointing the finger of blame at his native Tyrone, and the province, following the violence that marred Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final.

NEVER before or since does Valentine’s Day create so much excitement as when I was a boarder at the Dominican Convent in Wicklow in the 1960s.

Derrytresk will be without seven players for Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC final following a mammoth disciplinary hearing at Croke Park.

Harry Redknapp yesterday welcomed the final whistle on his bung accusation “nightmare” after his acquittal for tax fraud cleared the way for him to land the top job in English football.

Luis Suarez has spoken of his relief after returning from his eight-game ban after being found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra and insisted that his conscience remains clear.

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The final whistle had hardly sounded at the Aviva when the usual suspects were at it.

For Luis Suarez, there was no fairytale return. For Tottenham, there was no Harry Redknapp. And for Liverpool, no victory as they suffered more home frustration after being held to an eighth top-flight draw at Anfield.

Lawyers at Dublin District Court have asked a judge to dismiss the case of two Louth men accused of attacking a referee after the controversial 2010 Leinster football final because he has withdrawn his complaint.

THE booing of an Arsene Wenger substitution in Arsenal’s defeat to Manchester United could be a “watershed moment” in his relationship with supporters, according to one prominent Gunners fan.

LAOIS chairman Brian Allen last night described the level of aggression displayed towards stewards in Sunday’s ill tempered All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in O’Moore Park as “unprecedented.”

DROMID PEARSES manager Michael Anthony O’Connell last night claimed his wife was forced to push their children underneath a seat in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise to protect them during the violent scenes that marred Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final defeat by Derrytresk.

THE last minute of the game at the Emirates and Arsenal fans who have made for the exits can’t quite bring themselves to leave.