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First game of the season away to Lille today. Starts in 15 minutes.

Best of luck Claudio.

Hull with a goal. 1-1 after 62 minutes. 

16 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Not a fan, they all look like training shirts due to the unimaginative Nike 'off the peg' design.

The darmstadt jako home shirt is very decent. Like Joma they've made some rather nice kits since they left us. 

Post Live-Aid nonsense from a major irritant but he did put together something half decent every now and then.

27 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Galway cork final 

Its hard to know. Both those two are the form sides but once the provincial finals are over it starts to get fairly intense. The record of Munster winners in the semis is not great. Believe me I know!!

Some crowd of Waterford/Wexford fans out in Cork last night. Met Dalo in Larrys and Tompkins was also there. Dalo was approached by a lot of people all night. Seemed a very sound skin. Rare for a Spurs fan!

Met some of the Cork footballers out after. Shattered after it but they gave some display in fairness. Their support is truly diabolical.

New Cork stadium is meant to be top notch.Banter between the Cork Waterford fans was class. Everywhere you turned it was non stop Football/Hurling talk.We don't realize at times how good we have it.

Hurling semi final draw

Galway v Tipp 6th August 

Cork v Waterford 13th August 

28 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

QPR

And Sunderland! 

Mayo win by a point 0-27 to 2-20.

Cork had chances at the end to draw it but they ran out of steam. 

Outstanding game. Probably the best of the season so far. 

Galway beating Donegal 2-7 to 0-5 after 30 minutes. 

Tipp won the all ireland quarter final in hurling v clare earlier today. 

Mayo up a point 0-26 to 2-19

7 minute left 

Now Cork with a chance to draw it..... 

Level. 

2-15 to 0-21.extra time. 

What a game. 

Mayo take the lead!!!! 

Mayo Cork level into injury time. 

0-20 to 2-14.

Surely been mentioned here before but a one hit wonder from 1989. Canada's answer to New Order

Another busy weekend in the Football Championship.

All Ireland Qualifiers

Armagh 1-17 Tipperary 1-15

Monaghan 1-12 Carlow 1-7

The big story here is last years All Ireland semi finalists Tipperary losing out. They were badly hit with injuries and missing players but yet almost beat Cork and Armagh. The squad they had was wafer thin despite some top class players in their team. Armagh didnt look anything special though and neither did Monaghan who were given a bit of a game by Carlow before finishing strong.

Neither team looks to be in the shake up later in the year.

Ulster Final

Tyrone 2-17 Down 0-15.

Routine win for Tyrone here. Down's limitations were exposed here after 2 surprise wins against Armagh and Monaghan. Tyrone were rampant after half time and the 1st goal finished the game off. The 2nd goal was a great finish. Like Tipperary Down havent got their strongest squad available and Monaghan making the final would have been a far better prospect.

Leinster Final

Dublin 2-23 Kildare 1-17

9 point win for All ireland champions Dublin but Kildare made life difficult for them. Kildare gave a really good account of themselves tough after giving away 2 early goals and look to be a team to watch out for. Was always gonna be a big ask against a team close to the greatest of all time but was worthwhile for them and they knew the qualifiers would be on the cards. Will be very interesting how they get on next. Dublin played some great stuff at times yesterday and the sheer movement and ball playing ability is a thing of wonder.

Roscommon with a surprise win in the Connacht football final over Galway 2-15 to 0-12. Galway were talked up big time after beating Mayo last month but they were a shambles today.

Sets up Cork V Mayo and Galway v donegal in the qualifiers.

Cork win the Munster Hurling final 1-25 to 1-20. Cork the better team and Clares approach left a lot to be desired. Hit a lot of wides out the field which drained confidence no end and also did nothing to stop Corks goalie finding his man.

Clare along with beaten Leinster finalists Wexford will play either Tipperary or Waterford in the All Ireland quarter finals in 2 weeks time. Draw is on tomorrow morning.

22 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Clare gave a good show 

 

Cody is done now ... his time has come 

 

I have a bet on Tipp to win it at 8/1 that looks cracking now 

 

im in thurles tomorrow for the munster final 

 

Hon de Banner !!! 

Clare could have been further ahead. Jamie missed a goal chance in the first half that could have put ye ahead by 5 or 6.

Mayo were awful in the first half but showed why they are one of the better teams of the last 5 years after the break. Setup for mayo kerry quarter final. 

Bit of talk around the place today. Not much colour around. Confident but a small bit wary of what ye can do. Ourselves and Cork are all too aware of what he's capable of the last 2 decades. Big crowd heading down from Cork.  Pubs will be packed tomorrow for it. 

Enjoy tomorrow. 

Fair play to waterford. Huge goal in extra time after missing that free. 

Kilkennys golden age is over surely. Shades of kerry football 1987 about them this season. 

Jamie barrons having a party! 

Waterford were winning by 9 points against kilkennny with about 15 minutes to go in the hurling qualifiers but somehow have managed to squander it. Missed a free at the end of normal time to win it. 

This is a total bottle job. Great finish though. Heading for extra time on sky sports 3.

Kelichi you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind Kelichi

On 01/07/2017 at 22:32, GaelicFox said:

Clare for the all ireland double 

Next up Mayo footballers in Ennis next Saturday and Cork hurlers next Sunday. 

How Mahrez has acted since the end of season has annoyed me greatly.

Leicester has been the best thing that has ever happened him and he might have barely broken into Ligue 1 by now only for us. I doubt he'd have anything like the acclaim in Algeria also.

Other than 2015/16 he has been a functional player for us. He never raised his game to the same levels as almost everyone else did from Liverpool onwards.

I accept that we're likely to be a stepping stone for players to move onto bigger things. That's part of being a Leicester supporter. I don't class Kante as a Leicester legend (a legendary season/player no doubt) because he was here for a short time but he got on with giving it his all for us with the worlds attention on him and even if say Vardy or Kasper did decide to go the passion they've shown for us will still make them fondly remembered.

Making it public that he didnt want to stay is very hard to take. If someone is interested in you and you back it up with the right displays for the current club then fair enough. Being half arsed for close to the whole season and then gettng ready to up sticks is very bad form.

Kerry 1-23 Cork 0-15.

Kerry won at their ease. The first time since the early 80s they won by more than 10 points in Killarney against Cork. Cork were atrocious in the second half. With all the playing numbers and underage success they are like a Newcastle United or Aston Villa when it comes to underperforming.

Galway 0-29 Wexford 1-17

Same kind of result here. Wexford battled well for most of he first half but Galway were far superior in the second half as the game fizzled out. Serious contenders to win the All Ireland.

Dull enough day of it. Been exciting overall so far and like the champions league gets fairly tasty around the quarter final stages.

One of my favourite covers. Prefer it to the original. Art of Noise and Tom Jones. Together at Last!

First of the provincial finals on today.

Munster football final on at 2 between Cork and Kerry in Killarney. Normally one of the best days out of the year and the atmosphere is electric down there but this looks like a very one sided game is on the cards. Cork have gone way back from the early part of the decade and struggled n their last 2 games. Havent won in Kerry since 1995 and unlikely to change today.

Leinster Hurling final on at 2 between Wexford and Galway. Lot of hype about Wexford given that they beat Kilkenny in the semi final but Galway are one of the favourites for the All Ireland and might just be that bit too quick all over for Wexford. Good day for it all the same. Hoping for a good game.

43 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Dont know whats worse for Mayo, losing in the final again ot probably not even getting as far as the final.

 

To those not familiar with Gaelic football, Mayo last won the All Ireland in 1951. Since then they've lost 8 finals and won none....

To be fair they struggled against Fermanagh this time last year and got to the final but lack the forwards to go all the way. Look a bit jaded after so long on the go.

RTE's attitude to Mayo during the game was like Sky sports towards us after Ranieri's departure. Criticized Mayo for everything. I'm only waiting for some of their players to be called snakes.

Kilkenny won the hurling 0-20 to 0-17. Not a great game. Kilkenny, Waterford and Tipp the 4 teams in the next round. Looking like Kilkenny's golden age is drawing to a close.