IT would appear that, for once, Liverpool fans are not going to do as Kenny Dalglish has asked.

SPENDING a sunny Easter Sunday afternoon watching the Old Firm match is one way to end up questioning your priorities in life.

ARSENE WENGER accepts it is a “vicious circle” when his Arsenal team face continual questions about their mental strength, but has no doubt they have the character to win their last five matches and be crowned Premier League champions.

EIGHT years is a long time in scuffling.

Paul Kerrigan should have the world at his feet. One of the key players on Cork’s All-Ireland winning team, he has a business masters in his back pocket and youth on his side — but the young attacker can’t get work.

STYLE isn’t a birthright; it is a knack which few have and many seek to emulate. Such is the case for princess-in-waiting Kate Middleton who was dubbed fashion royalty long before her nuptials to Prince William were ever announced.

FOOTBALL – bloody hell! as Alex Ferguson famously remarked.

DONEGAL manager Jimmy McGuinness yesterday added his name to the list of high-profile figures to have railed against the GAA’s use of referee assessors and the perceived pressure such figures place on referees, to the detriment of the games themselves.

Three weeks ago, he endured a chastening experience in an England shirt at the Aviva Stadium, but Leicester stand-off Toby Flood is confident his Tigers will roar today. He spoke to Julian Bennetts

LIMERICK referee George Clancy will take charge of the opening game of this year’s Rugby World Cup.

MUSKERRY put themselves in pole position in the Divisional section of the Cork County senior hurling championship following their defeat of Duhallow at Cloughduv last night.

A GAA player could lose part of his ear after allegedly being bitten during a melee at an abandoned Warwickshire SFL game in Coventry.

WAYNE ROONEY has been condemned to begin a domestic break convinced he is being made a scapegoat by the Football Association.

LAST night’s Munster U21FC final in Páirc Uí Rinn was a clash that promised much but ultimately only Cork could savour the action that unfolded.

IT is convenient for us Europeans to think that our continent is now the epicentre of the golfing world.

MANCHESTER UNITED captain Rio Ferdinand believes their Champions League quarter-final with Chelsea is in the balance despite the Red Devils’ 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge last night.

OKAY, hands up. Never mind the never-ending saga of Manny Eboué’s infuriating naivety, I take full responsibility for the injury-time fiasco at the Emirates on Sunday.

REFEREE Pat McEnaney has voiced his opposition to the new refereeing rule which comes into force for this year’s All-Ireland championships.

DUBLIN have made it to a first league final since 1946, and while they needed a couple of other results to fall their way, beating Cork in sunny Páirc Uí Chaoimh was a fitting end to a successful campaign for the light blues.

TO watch Roberto Martinez, you certainly wouldn’t think he and his Wigan Athletic team are “fighting for our lives” — as he puts it himself.