When Greek league rivals AEK Athens and PAOK Thessaloniki met last season, a disallowed goal late in the match — which was, finally, allowed — threw the sport into chaos.

Holders Sixmilebridge were sent crashing out of this year’s Clare SHC by neighbours Cratloe at Cusack Park on Saturday, coming out on the wrong side of a 1-19 to 0-16 final scoreline.

Champions Na Piarsaigh are two wins away from retaining their Limerick SHC for the first time.

The teams may have been level 10 times but Clonoulty-Rossmore were most deserved winners of their first Dan Breen Cup in 21 years.

On the night the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division title returned to Oriel Park, Dundalk FC served up a five-star display against managerless Sligo Rovers.

BLACKPOOL pulled off an impressive victory over Tottenham to move five points clear of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone last night.

FOR 35 minutes, the few thousand who bothered to come to Croke Park to see the Dublin hurlers take on Tipperary in round two of the Allianz Hurling League on Saturday evening were left frustrated, disappointed.

FANCIED Tralee CBS were made fight all the way before beating a determined St Flannan’s, Ennis side in the Corn Ui Mhuiri quarter-final at bitterly cold Glin yesterday.

CHAMPIONS St. Brendan’s, Killarney had little difficulty beating Intermediate School Killorglin in a disappointing Corn Ui Mhuiri quarter-final at Listry yesterday.

CHELSEA are back, at least their fans think so, after an emphatic 4-0 victory at Bolton that saw Carlo Ancelotti’s side return to the top four in the Premier League and drew a line under what has been a miserable three-month period for the champions.

WHILE both Leinster and Ulster could afford to sit back and savour early quarter-final qualification in the Heineken Cup, their last eight opponents were not confirmed until the final whistle blew yesterday at Adams Park, where Wasps were entertaining champions Toulouse. What a sting in the tail that proved to be.

NOTTS COUNTY were last night accused of another act of sexism that left Manchester City director of communications Vicky Kloss fuming.

THERE were few signs of celebrations amongst the local football support after Saturday’s McGrath Cup final in Dr Crokes grounds in Killarney.

THREE times postponed, this Leinster Club senior hurling final at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow, yesterday was worth the wait.

IT’S imperative to put on record that there was barely a wind in Mallow yesterday.

A REALLY good, no nonsense, family home — that’s 16 Monswood, in a nutshell.

GIVEN the desert wasteland nature of this week’s Bahrain course, the European Tour issued a special rules notice to all Volvo Champions event competitors declaring – “There is no bunkers on this course”.

CLARE claimed the spoils in this competitive McGrath Cup quarter-final at Cooraclare yesterday.