Football | World Cup 2014 qualifiers England manager Roy Hodgson insists that Ukraine are still a threat to England’s World Cup qualification campaign. The Three Lions play Montenegro in Podgorica on Tuesday night (8pm) and look to be in the driving seat in Group H with three home games still to come from their five remaining games. […]
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Deadline Day transfer News: Manchester United confirm interest in Wilfried Zaha
Wil’ he stay or will he go? Manchester United chief executive David Gill has confirmed what a techy Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway hinted at yesterday about Wilfried Zaha. United’s chief bean counter said the club were interested in signing the Crystal Palace forward but refused to say whether the England international would be loaned […]
Video: Hammers acquire Sean Maguire, the new ‘Robbie Keane’
Having enjoyed the services of the old Robbie Keane for the second half of their ill-fated 2010-2011 season, West Ham have acquired young Irish striker Sean Maguire, dubbed the new Robbie Keane, from League of Ireland side Waterford United for an undisclosed fee. It’s rumoured to be somewhere around the £400k mark. The 18-year old […]
SLIDESHOW: Ireland need Robbie Keane’s incredibly camp wrist at its very best
He is Ireland’s record goalscorer with 53 goals in 118 appearances and is likely to play as a lone striker against Germany on Friday night at the Aviva. Much of the pre-match talk has centred on Robbie Keane’s fitness as the LA Galaxy striker has missed training with an Achilles injury. Keane is, however, expected to […]
GIF: Robbie Keane volleys up a storm
With a crunch qualifier against Germany coming up this weekend, Ireland fans will be feeling a little more confident after watching Robbie Keane smash in a world class volley for the LA Galaxy over the weekend. They lost the match 2-1 to Real Salt Lake but who cares about MLS results? Just send us the […]
Keane to get off to a good start! Money-Back if Robbie scores last
With a tricky looking World Cup qualifying campaign ahead of them the boys in green will be looking to get off to a cracking start with a win in Kazakhstan. Paddy Power has just about got over the heartache of the summer and now full of renewed optimism and belief he’s got a cracking Money-Back Special lined […]
David Beckham scores a cracker for LA Galaxy
By Aidan Elder | Chief Sports Writer You may have already seen this stunning goal from David Beckham. You may have also seen a ‘Beckham shows Stuart Pearce what he’s missing for Team GB’ story-line wedged awkwardly onto it. Well, it doesn’t look like Goldenballs was too bothered about making a statement in the direction […]
Ireland deserved better. Trap should have delivered more
By Ciaran O Raghallaigh in Poznan This Irish fan’s flag summed things up. “At least we stayed til the end Roy”, it read, summing up the defiant nature of the Ireland support, but at the same time admitting that all there was to cheer about was pissing off Roy Keane. Ireland’s Euro 2012 adventure is […]
Duffer to captain the boys in green
By Ciaran O’Raghallaigh Damien Duff will wear the armband of Ireland captain against Italy tomorrow – after Robbie Keane demanded the Ballyboden winger be honoured on his 100th cap. Duffer, who said he had to be ‘dragged kicking and screaming’ to the pre-match press conference, was ever the modest, unwilling hero, and said he’d rather […]
Group C preview: Can Irish halt the Spanish Inquisition?
By Sean Goff Group C Preview betting preview: Ireland v Spain, 7.45pm, Thursday, ITV1 and RTE 2 The Lowdown If you thought the Spanish Inquisition sounded tough have some sympathy for Ireland who face 90 torturous minutes against Spain on Thursday night that will decide their Euro 2012 fate. It’s do or die time as Ireland must […]
Video: Paddy Power interviews Robbie Fowler
You may have seen the video where we hooked Robbie Fowler up to a lie detector to get some strong opinions on Euro 2012 (and his views on John Terry). Well, if that experience wasn’t painful enough, for Robbie, afterwards we made him sit through more questions taken from Paddy Power punters. We hear you. […]
Robbie Keane ready to be Trap’s lone ranger
By Ciaran O Raghallaigh in Gdansk Giovanni Trapattoni was intentionally vague about many things here in Gdansk’s eye-catching PGE Arena ahead of the crunch Group C game with Spain. He refused to name his team, for the first time in four years since he took charge of Ireland. He wouldn’t confirm whether Robbie Keane would play […]
O’Shea: We owe Irish fans a performance against Spain
By Ciaran O Raghalllaigh ROBBIE Keane, Richard Dunne and Keith Andrews prepared for the might of Spain’s world champions today in Gdynia – by beating up a bunch of culchies. ‘Culchies’, for those of you not familiar with the way we’ve taken the Queen’s English and made it our own, is a semi-derogatory word […]
All over? Irish dreams in tatters after opening defeat
Ciaran O Raghallaigh is in Poznan for the Paddy Power Blog and reflects on a miserable opening game for the Irish. 1. Were Croatia just too good to compete with? No. They were very good. But they weren’t any better than Russia when Ireland drew 0-0 in Moscow. Of course, that was a bit of […]
Video: Robbie Keane insists Ireland can get out of group
This just in from our man in Poland. Ahead of Ireland’s opening match in Group C on Sunday against Croatia captain Robbie Keane has insisted: ”Listen, we’re not here to make up the numbers, there’s no question about that. “We’re coming into this competition with a lot of confidence and belief.”
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