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Liam Mackey

How vintage Red became vin ordinaire

ON THE face of it, to lose by the odd goal in three at the home of the champions is no disgrace but, for Liverpool, yesterday’s defeat at Old Trafford can’t be interpreted as anything other than another nail in the coffin of the Rafa Benitez era.

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History to repeat itself in Champions League

IF YOU don’t want to know the results of the Champions’ League quarter-finals, look away now...

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Ever-maturing Rooney rises above the rot

SO what was your gut reaction when you heard the England team hotel had been bugged last week?

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Trap’s Ireland in holding pattern

SO what did we learn from our little trip to London?

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Whatever colour they were, we’re all green with envy

SO in London on Tuesday, it’s the boys in green versus the boys who will be going green.

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The blame game fails to find a winner

AS Fergie might have said, and as Arsenal as well as Ireland now know to their cost: ye cannae win anything with Hanssons.

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Irish pastime back as time comes to rue Britannia

IT’S reassuring to see that, as usual, England’s preparations for a big tournament are going swimmingly.

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Forget Paris, get packed for Warsaw

IN Dublin Castle on Thursday for the launch of the city as the European Capital Of Sport for 2010, Marco Tardelli was invited to turn his thoughts to another European capital, Warsaw, and the draw for the Euro Championships which will take place there tomorrow.

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Déjà vu all over again

AS ONLY Sky can, they blasted yesterday’s big match coverage to, well, the sky.

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Rebels with yet another just cause

WITH Tom Coughlan being edged towards the door and a new consortium ready to enter, Cork City’s future once again hangs in the balance.

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Meet the philosophical Alex Ferguson

HERE’S one for your next pub quiz: what do Archbishop Tutu, The Edge, Salman Rushdie, Al Pacino, Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Alex Ferguson have in common?

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Life after debt

THEY don’t write football journalism like they used to.

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Wolves in sheep’s clothing

WHO’D be a gaffer? Well, you, me and millions of others is probably the correct answer. Whether we’re in the press box, on the terrace, in the pub or even all alone in front of the domestic box, we’re never slow to express an opinion on the actions of the man in the dug-out, especially when he seems to have got it all wrong.

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We coulda been a contender!

JUST when we all thought we were ready to move on...

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Meetings with remarkable men

PELE’S visit to Ireland this week reminded me that I’ve been lucky enough to meet with the five footballers I consider to be the greatest of all time: George Best, Maradona, Johann Cruyff, Zinedine Zidane and ‘El Rei’ himself.

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Lesson to learn from a rhapsody in blue

FORGIVE us our trespasses, not to mention our sloppy passes, but with those other Blues fetching up these shores at the end of the week, it was hard not to view yesterday’s grand slammer at Stamford Bridge against the backdrop of altogether more high-stakes games to come in Dublin and Paris.

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A rap with the cap

ON the day of the draw for the World Cup play-off, a few of us found ourselves in the company of a brace of Irish football heroes of yesteryear.

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Trap and the Pressing game

THE biggest surprise about Eamon Dunphy’s hatchet job on Ireland’s performance against Italy last week was that anyone was surprised.

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Why Trap should bring Reid back into fold

FOR A guy who isn’t even getting his game, you’d have to say that Andy Reid is playing a blinder for Ireland.

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Three down before half-time... Rafa needs another miracle

NOT for the first time where Rafael Benitez and Carlo Ancelotti are concerned, it’s the Liverpool manager who finds himself three down – except it’s not even half-time yet.

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Pitch battle is Keane’s biggest

SINCE we’re so desperately short of reality television, here’s an idea for a new one – Gaffer Swap, which is just what you think it might be, except with the added, exciting twist that the managers involved don’t exchange jobs, they exchange personalities.

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Don’t chide Ade for settling a score

TIME for some sympathy for the devil, me thinks.

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A different ball game for me

AND so the last Sunday in September is almost upon us and there’s just a nerve-tingling 24 hours to go to one of the biggest events in the sporting calendar, as two ancient rivals and neighbours prepare to renew battle in the presence of a massive crowd and with millions more tuning in on television all over the world.

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Camera issue in focus again

IN the great tradition of ‘Private Eye’ – translation: in an act of shameless ripping off – we begin today with an abject apology.

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Don’t worry, be happy

WITH thanks to the late great Ian Dury, it is my rare pleasure today to present reasons to be cheerful (part three).

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In a League of its own

CORK CITY have overcome some big name opponents in the course of their 25 year history but none has proved quite as formidable as the tax man.

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McCarthy deserves to be back at the top

NOW all of 85 years of age, Tomás Mac Giolla made a rare public appearance in the pages of Hot Press this week, reflecting on a colourful and controversial life in Republican and left-wing politics in Ireland.

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