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Yo-Yos, drinking games and an ice-pop: It's the week in comments

Thanks for all your help this week, readers.

Frank Reilly learned an important lesson yesterday.

“Mental note to self. When in that situation and the urge comes over, rip off the shorts, not the shirt.”

Having seen that Sky and BT had carved up the European rugby landscape, Ruairi O’Bric spoke for the good people of the internet.

“Let the streaming commence.”

Dublin supporters on hill 16 Cathal Noonan / INPHO Cathal Noonan / INPHO / INPHO

John Frungus tries to get over the fee Southampton paid for Shane Long and look at the value instead:

“To be fair he’s got a rate of about 1 in 4 which is good considering the clubs he’s played with, Reading, Hull and West Brom. He could really flourish at Southampton.

After questioning the pedigree of Women’s Rugby at the international grade, Ray Rogers was invited to Clondalkin RFC to see if he could run riot on the club scene:

“Thanks for the offer, but I can’t accept, that would involve me crawling out from under my rock and putting my money where my mouth is, and sure that would be no fun at all.”

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Colm Casey has the shot glasses ready for Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods’ appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

“Play a drinking game during that; every time you see a false smile, a hollow compliment from one of the lads, or Tiger talking about getting back to fitness to take on the ‘kids’ of Rory and Ricky, take one shot. I predict a alcoholic paralysis. Classic American puff piece.”

And Casey struck again with this so-bad-we-had-to-love-it reaction to seeing the Yo-Yo world champion in action.

“His form has been very up and down this year.”

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After Robbie Keane became international football’s leading active goalscorerCormac Byrne knew Miroslav Klose was running scared.

“Say he retired knowing that sides such as Ireland and Scotland would stop him from extending his record in this years qualifiers.”

Stop it, Joe Bloggs. We cried enough when Billo left the RTE studio without you starting us off again.

“Who is Eamon going to say number 9 to?”

Rob Harvey gives us his stand-out memory of Soccer AM’s golden age.

“What have you got there Barry?
“It’s a thermos, it’s a great thing this, it keeps your hot things hot and your cold things cold”
Great, what have you got in it?
“Tea and an ice-pop”

20 signs you’ve had enough of watching ‘Premiership Years’ on TV for one summer

French athlete celebrates shirtless for last 100m of steeplechase, then gets stripped of gold medal too