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We'll Leave It There So: Fresh faces in Irish squad, O'Neill's new contract and today's sport

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The Best Thing We Shared

If the Premier League clubs were a drinks order…

Where We Were Today

Our Ben Blake was at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium to get the thoughts of Martin O’Neill as he unveiled his squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

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On The Record

Michael Ryan, Micheal Donoghue, Derek McGrath, Rory Gallagher, Eamonn Fitzmaurice – Brian Cody aside, there’s a certain ‘type’ now. Top managers are calm, rational; masters of strategy and logistics, proficient with laptop and spreadsheet as much as whistle and training cone. Soon, a Harvard MBA will be as useful a qualification for county manager as an All-Ireland medal.This may be because county panels are now ‘player-led’. You can lead the horses to water, but you can’t make them drink. Or at least not without a prior horse meeting where you get ‘buy-in’ from every horse to the water-drinking in question. Otherwise you can have a full on horse strike on your hands, or have half of them gallop off to America on you.”

Our columnist, TV3′s Tommy Martin, feels Irish sport is a duller place without Davy Fitzgerald in it.

The Fixture List

Football (All Premier League kick-offs 3pm unless otherwise stated)

Manchester United v Leicester (12.30pm)
Bournemouth v Everton
Liverpool v Hull
Middlesbrough v Tottenham
Stoke v West Brom
Sunderland v Crystal Palace
Swansea v Man City
Arsenal v Chelsea (5.30pm)

Sligo Rovers v Cork City (7.45pm)

Rugby

Munster v Edinburgh (3pm)
Scarlets v Connacht (7.35pm)

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