MIXED-GENDER RELAYS are being considered as an Olympic event to ramp up interest in athletics, a senior member of the sport’s governing body said today. “As a sport we are looking at different formats,” Olivier Gers, chief executive of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), told AFP. “It’s definitely something for the Olympics to look…
TO SAY 2019 has been an eventful year for Irish soccer would be putting in mildly. Both the men’s and women’s senior teams got new managerial eras underway, while there were some terrific results at underage level. However, all these developments were overshadowed by various controversies relating to the FAI, which led to the departure…
WEST HAM UNITED have announced that Manuel Pellegrini has been sacked as manager of the London club, following a dismal run of results. The Hammers currently sit 17th in the Premier League table, having picked up just one win in their last five games. On Saturday West Ham lost 2-1 to a Leicester team that…
STEPHEN KENNY IS about to watch Jason Knight, Derby County and Wayne Rooney host Barnsley on the box but presses pause to talk about his Irish starlets to The42. He’s not doing much for his carbon footprint, truth told, not that there is much choice. This is an extraordinarily grim time for Irish football off…
PEP GUARDIOLA SAID Sergio Aguero’s legendary status had grown again after becoming the Premier League’s top-scoring foreign player with a hat-trick as Manchester City thrashed Aston Villa 6-1 on Sunday. It may be too late to salvage City’s defence of the Premier League title as they remain 14 points behind runaway leaders Liverpool, who also…
PEP GUARDIOLA will not watch “unstoppable” Liverpool’s game with Manchester United this weekend because the gap between the Premier League leaders and his Manchester City side is too big. Guardiola insists his City players still deserve credit for the way they have played this season, even though they go into their clash with Crystal Palace…
Liverpool 1-0 Shrewsbury Town LIVERPOOL’S YOUNGEST-EVER side earned a place in the FA Cup fifth round as Ro-Shaun Williams’ own goal gave the Reds a 1-0 win over Shrewsbury Town. With Jurgen Klopp refusing to field any of Liverpool’s first-team regulars in Tuesday’s replay as well as handing academy coach Neil Critchley the reins, a…
WATERFORD FC HAVE confirmed the signing of veteran goalkeeper Brian Murphy ahead of the new SSE Airtricity League season. Murphy, 36, returns to the League of Ireland following a long career in English football which included spells with Manchester City, Swansea, Ipswich Town, QPR, Portsmouth, and Cardiff City. “Brian is a great signing for us,” Blues…
JURGEN KLOPP SAYS Liverpool must accept that their unbeaten Premier League run is over and says they deserved to lose to Watford on Saturday. The Reds suffered a first league loss of the season when they went down 3-0 at Vicarage Road. An Ismaila Sarr double and a goal from Troy Deeney fired struggling Watford to a shock…
THE CANADIAN CITY of Edmonton is a long way from London. About 4,200 miles. Give or take. But on Tuesday, that distance seemed dramatically shorter for the group of academy kids glued to a TV screen at St Nicholas Junior High School. After all, Alphonso Davies used to be one of them. For the…