A NEW HAPPY Year, the same happy commenters. Here’s who got a big collective green thumb from the sports desk this week.

Paul Parsons’ da knows his way around a fjord

“My dad thinks McGregor has a pure Viking head on him. Dunno when he ever met Vikings to draw a comparison though.”

Okay, not in this pic, but we know what Mr Parsons means. @TheNotoriousMMA @TheNotoriousMMA

After George Weah proved successful in Liberian elections, Augustus Hoop dragged a classic from the transfer vault.

“I heard Graham sourness voted for some bloke who said he was Weah’s cousin.”

Darragh Martin could do a job as a scout

“When 10 million (a club record) was forked out for a striker was kept out of the Nigerian 2014 world cup squad by Shola Ameobi  alarm bells should have rang at the top.”

One of the oddest stories of the week was Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s alleged shooting of a moose. Here’s Barry Smyth:

“Oh deer”

Zlatan in Yosemite Sam pose,firing a warning shot. Martin Meissner Martin Meissner

Mark Lillis:

“What the elk did I just read?”

Elvin Cashman:

“Probably hit it with a backheel, rather than a rifle.”

George Holmes looked back on his favourite Stevie G memory

“What a hit son, what a hit, what a night that was, what a goal, and what a player.”

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But Colm O’Neill has been turned into a cynic by Frank Lampard’s trans-Atlantic (and trans-Atlantic again) transfer.

“Might finally get that coveted Premier League medal he so yearns a la ‘Frank Lampard style…’”

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