Sometimes a significant percentage drive ourselves into a crazy belief that the referee is totally biased against our team.

MAYBE it’s down to the new ‘whistle’ he’s been sporting of late.

THEY think it’s all Rovers – it is now.

IRELAND has been placed 14th best on a list of 178 countries which have been ranked according to how corrupt they are perceived to be by business people.

THERE was a time when it seemed Tiger Woods would never be deposed as the world’s number one golfer.

NEARLY every woman in the Egyptian capital has experienced leering, whistles, groping or other sexual harassment in the street.

GERRY MARSDEN did his best to lift Liverpool’s flagging spirits when the former Gerry and the Pacemakers singer took to the pitch before kick-off to lead the Anfield crowd in a rousing rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.

WAYNE ROONEY clearly forgot about Javier Hernandez when he claimed the future wasn’t bright at Manchester United.

CHAMPIONS Portlaoise withstood a spirited second half Moorefield rally to emerge victorious from a pulsating AIB Leinster club SFC tie at O’Moore Park yesterday.

DE LA Salle stormed to a second Waterford senior hurling title yesterday, reversing their group stages defeat at the hands of Ballygunner as they ran out easy winners in Walsh Park.

“LAZY autumn days in all their glory...” was a line of a song I heard as a youth.

STOKE manager Tony Pulis has revealed his frustration after details of a dressing room bust-up between Republic of Ireland international Glenn Whelan and Abdoulaye Faye were leaked to the press.

THOSE pictures of the Rafael Benitez press conference in the buffet car of a train whizzing through the bocage (no doubt at 175kph) somewhere in France were a welcome throwback to days when sporting heroes couldn’t be cocooned from the rest of us in their personal transport systems.

TWO of Munster football’s lesser lights convened in Croke Park on Saturday afternoon with a more seasoned and experienced Limerick outfit carrying off the honours in an excellent Allianz NFL Division 4 decider.

MARTIN O’NEILL has suffered excruciating pain at the hands of officials this year but received a timely piece of fortune to ensure his burning ambition for the Champions League is still faintly flickering.

AROUND 15 minutes before kick-off on a glorious spring day in Manchester, there was a presentation on the pitch.

HULL’s defeat to Sunderland may have consigned them to relegation but no one can claim that they didn’t put up a fight.

EMBATTLED West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola labelled Scott Parker’s match-winning strike against Wigan on Saturday as his favourite moment since becoming Hammers manager.

IT will be an affair weighted with awkwardness for John Evans.

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