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- Mayo have named an unchanged side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final replay. Here’s how Twitter reacted to the news Lee Keegan would be free to play.
- Mixed Granny Rule news for Ireland. Spurs prospect Harry Kane committed himself to the Three Lions, but Mark Noble finally looks like he fancies a go in the green shirt.
- With the new rugby season a week away, three provinces have pre-season friendlies to set them up for the new campaign. Munster are taking on London Irish in Waterford. Tomorrow, Sean O’Brien and Stuart Olding will feature when Leinster host Ulster.
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- Louis Van Gaal has expressed more frustration, this time he’s annoyed by the time it’s taking to sort out Marcos Rojo’s work permit.
- Celtic avoided Legia Warsaw in today’s Europa League draw, they got the fairly cushy number of Salzburg, GNK Dinamo and FC Astra instead.
- Embattled US college football team USC have another storm on their hands after Anthony Brown labelled his coach a racist after quitting the team.
- John Giles had his inimitable say on Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino, says he’s a headbanger.
The best thing we shared
Bafetimbi Gomis heard Swansea were interested in signing him and headed straight for his Football Manager game to do some research on the Swans (via The Guardian).
On the record
“I got on with Mark [Anscombe] very well on a personal level. Whether boys had issues with his coaching ability or whether it was little details… the problem senior players in Ireland have got [is] they’re comparing everyone to Joe Schmidt now.”
– Tom Court looks back the mess he left behind in Ulster.
Where we were today
Niall Kelly went for lunch with Barry McGuigan and Carl Frampton a week out from the latter’s IBF super-bantamweight world title fight against Kiko Martinez.
The Fixture List
Phew, where do we start?
There’s a full raft of Airtricity League fixtures already kicked off around the country.
The Croke Park Classic will take over GAA HQ tomorrow with Penn State v UCF kicking off at 13.30. While that’s going on, Cork and Wexford will replay their All-Ireland camogie semi-final from 14.30 in Walsh Park.
The Premier League season is in full swing with Manchester United’s trip to Burnley the first of seven fixtures in England’s top flight tomorrow. Sunday will bring us Spurs v Liverpool as the highlight.
But we’ll forgive you for not devoting your full attention to all that because it’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final weekend. The replay of Mayo v Kerry will be in Crok… eh, Limerick from 17.00 and on Sunday Donegal take on Dublin in the Jones’ Road area at 15.30.
Showbiz, Baby!
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