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Maradona's missed opportunity and Andy Reid's 'magic wand': It's Comments of the Week
IT’S BEEN A long week of sport, folks. But thanks to you and your witty comments, we’re ready to do it all over again.
Here are some of our fondest below-the-line contributions from the past seven days.
An alternate angle on Maradona’s classic against England got David Speakman thinking:
“All left foot! Missed several opportunitues to dive and get players booked. Will never make it. 2/10″
Voice of Raisin spotted a big omission on our list of things that will definitely happen during the Six Nations:
“Ryle Nugent will break the world record for talking inane nonsense for 80 minutes, without taking a single breath, with Donal Lenihan excitedly repeating the word “tremenjous” as the backing vocals.”
D has a plan for cutting 10-year-old rugby prodigy Chicago Doyle down to size:
Funkytown is a hard man to impress as Mexican skiier Hubertus von Hohenlohe found out:
“Still not as good as chazz Michael Michaels”
It took a few hours but Noel Howley called us out for our reference to Andy Reid’s “magic wand”:
“That headline was a bit smutty!”
Conor Flood has some suggestions if BOD is at a loose end when he hangs up his boots:
“I know it’s a long shot but If he’s free I was hoping to paint downstairs around June and could use a little help . Two days max … ????”
Niall Griffin nails another anti-climactic transfer deadline day on the head:
“Watching Transfer Deadline Day on SSN is like going to a strip club and finding out they leave their underwear on.”
And finally, we asked who would you pick in an Ireland team to face Scotland tomorrow? Chris McDonnell’s selection — and logic — gets a place in the Hall of Fame:
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Below The Belt Comments comments of the week