>>>> No female jockey has come close to winning the Grand National, but Nina Carberry will have another crack at it after trainer John Quinn decided to give the ride on Character Building in the Aintree showpiece to Irishwoman. She’ll be hoping the 11 year old will help her follow in her father’s footsteps by […]
Archive | March, 2011
Daily Random Youtube Video
It may be the towering arrogance or how lazy he is or the fact that he keeps kicking his team-mates, hell, it may just be plain old petty jealousy but whatever the reason, the fact remains that I don’t like Zlatan Ibrahimovic. So this video may be a few days old and stolen directly from […]
I’m Feeling PPLucky
Santa Cruz v Sao Paulo In our daily dose of mildly condescending know-it-all preview of a random football match, we travel to Brazil where the Copa Do Brasil very slowly lumbers on with no-one paying a huge amount of attention to it. Brazil’s national cup competition has finally reached the second round stage and the […]
Grand National News – 30th March
What A Friend – every other caption I had for this photo would get me the sack Grand National News – 30th March >>> Ruby Walsh has already revealed that he’ll be riding The Midnight Club in the Grand National, but an absence of any other news has meant he’s been asked to pad out […]
Random Daily Youtube Video
Yes it’s a very good goal but there’s nothing weird or quirky enough to warrant being our video of the day…except…wait a second…is that?…it bloody well is and all! That’s Dirk Kuyt and it didn’t come off his shin or take fifteen deflections before crossing the line! What’s that? He was actually trying to cross […]
The Wonders Of Technology
5 Apps Every Sports Fan Needs (from Sports Pickle) The worrying thing is I’d really use apps #1, #4 and #5
I’m Feeling PPLucky
Costa Rica v Argentina We’ll never know what it was about the prospect of giving the always mentally stable Diego Maradona responsibility for Argentina’s latest golden generation of players that so concerned the people in charge of the nation’s football team. By guiding his team to a creditable quarter-final and not overdosing on cocaine, Maradona […]
Today’s Random Youtube Video
Too broke, too tired, too disinterested in watching your national side play against a team from a country you can’t even find on a map? Whatever the reasons for the poor turn-out for Ireland’s win over Macedonia on Saturday, they’ll seem somewhat insignificant after watching this video from Colombia. 17 year-old Cucuta Deportivo fan Christopher […]
Grand National News – 29th March
Robert Thornton doesn’t feature in this news round-up, but we’d just like to congratulate Choc on landing winner number 1,000 yesterday >>> Highlighting just how seriously you should take this daily news-round, after last week reporting that Gold Cup flash in the pan, Imperial Commander wouldn’t be going to Aintree, it now looks that he […]
Win A Free €/£50 Bet
For once we’re not blatantly ripping off a BBC quiz show for our weekly dose of Free Bet Competition fun. We’re ripping off Google Maps instead. Mainly because some of the answers in that John Terry competition have scarred us for life, this week we’re going for something entirely different – something that’s going to […]
And the winner is …
A week is a long time in football, goes the old crap cliché. And it’s an even longer time in an ill-conceived blog competition. Given the subject matter we asked you to work with, the tone of the answers was to be expected, but the sheer depths of depravity that people went to was breath-taking. […]
Random Youtube Video of the Day
A goalkeeper scoring a goal is like, well, Emile Heskey scoring a goal. A rare occurrence which comes as a surprise to all involved. However, there is always an exception needed to prove the rule and in this case that exception is Sao Paulo’s Rogerio Ceni. The free-kick and penalty taking keeper scored his 100th […]
Grand National News – 28th March
Ruby and the floating hat celebrated his latest win with gusto – The least interesting secret in racing is out of the bag with Ruby Walsh revealing which of his two possible exceptionally plum rides he’ll opting for in the Grand National. The two-time winner of the Aintree showpiece has gone with [insert your own […]
Grand National News – 25th March
Bluesea Cracker overcame a crap name to win the 2010 Irish Grand National Our daily dose of scrambling around for some news about the Grand National: – Bluesea Cracker is said to be whistling, smiling, saying hi to people and generally being in good form ahead of her tilt at the Grand National. With some […]
Wales v England Preview
A familiar scene from John Terry’s love life – wet, grimacing and with a pointless piece of plastic on his arm It’s great to have John Terry back as England captain. He just oozes commitment every time he utters that immortal phrase ‘we’ll take tip-off’. And no-one picks what end to play towards in the […]
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