THERE’S nothing quite like the feeling of leaving a championship ground on a summer’s day as news of a shock elsewhere in the country moves through the throng.

Ballingeary 1-7 Aghabullogue 0-8

Wigan 1 Manchester United 2

Leinster 17 Munster 15

IN 1931 a Chelsea team travelled north on a freezing winter afternoon for a cup tie against Blackpool.

Maccabi Haifa 3 Manchester United 0

Connacht 1-15 Munster 0-9

Cork City 3

IN years to come, they will remember it as The Brady Final.

Ireland 2 Australia 1

THIERRY HENRY has vowed to continue scoring the goals which will finally prove to Real Madrid that he has no intention of swapping Highbury, where he is the “happiest man in the world”, for the Bernabeu.

WHEN you take the hype out of the responses to the NIB report it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Irish banking sector has been the spawning ground for an ethos in this country that regards tax evasion and contempt for the law as totally acceptable behaviour.

Scarborough 1 Southend 0

MAY DAY protestors planning to take to the streets to oppose European Union expansion have expressed concern at reports that gardaí policing demonstrations will be armed and that water cannons will be kept on standby.

THEY might have been beaten out of sight by a vastly superior side, but nothing really became the Irish World Cup squad quite like the manner of their leaving.

WOUNDED hero David Beckham was the man inflicting the wounds last night as he inspired Manchester United to a Champions League triumph over flu-ridden Juventus at Old Trafford.

Aston Villa 0 Manchester Utd 1