THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION will trial ‘sin bins’ in England’s lower leagues next season, the BBC reports. The concept, which was adopted by rugby union in 2001, will be rolled out in the bottom tier of the National League system. Under the trial, players who are shown a yellow card for dissent will be sidelined for…
Month: June 2022
Kilkenny duo and Galway star make Player of the Year shortlist
Updated Feb 15th 2021, 12:06 PM THE SHORTLISTS FOR the Camogie Association/WGPA Players’ Player of the Year Awards have been announced today. Denise Gaule, who scored 1-6 in December’s All-Ireland final, and her Kilkenny team-mate Grace Walsh have been nominated for Senior Player of the Year alongside Galway’s Shauna Healy, who was on the losing…
Gianluigi Buffon: I want people to be sad when I quit
GIANLUIGI BUFFON SAYS his motivation is to continue proving he belongs at the highest level and wants people to be sad when he eventually ends his playing career. The Juventus goalkeeper was in fine form as his side won 2-0 away to Monaco, taking full control of their Champions League semi-final tie. It was Buffon’s…
Ramos questions use of VAR as Real Madrid are denied ‘clear’ Clasico penalties
SERGIO RAMOS questioned why VAR was not used to check two “clear” fouls on Raphael Varane in the penalty area during Wednesday’s goalless Clasico. In the first half at Camp Nou, Varane was caught by a high challenge from compatriot Clement Lenglet and then had his shirt pulled by Ivan Rakitic when competing for a…
‘You go through the suffering of being stared at, looked at, pointed at, but at the end of the day, you’re you’
Updated at 14.19 NICOLE TURNER WAS seven years old when she was diagnosed with hypochondroplasia, one of over 200 different types of dwarfism. It is caused by a mutation in the FGFR3 gene and affects the conversion of cartilage in to bone growth. According to littlepeopleuk.org, a child with dwarfism is born once per 25,000…
‘Largely our own fault’ – GAA chief on failure to complete club championships in 2020
DIRECTOR GENERAL TOM Ryan says the GAA accept responsibility for the failure to complete club championships in 2020, a decision that “weighed heavily” on him. 11 senior county finals have yet to be played after club action was suspended in October following a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases nationwide. Writing in the GAA’s 2020 annual…
Why is women’s sport being hit so much harder by the Covid-19 pandemic?
A general view of Irish rugby players, Ciara Griffin, Lindsay Peat, Cliodhna Moloney, Linda Djougang and Nichola Fryday. THREE DAYS INTO February, the word finally arrived, even though it had been promised much earlier. Full details of the rescheduled 2021 Women’s Six Nations were to be announced “by the end of January”, as per a…
Liverpool handed boost ahead of Wolves clash
LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN Jordan Henderson is available for his side’s clash with Wolves on Sunday, according to manager Jurgen Klopp. Click Here: penrith panthers shirt England midfielder Henderson suffered a kick on the shin in Liverpool’s 4-0 victory at Leicester City on Boxing Day but Klopp described the injury as “only pain” as he confirmed the…
Ex-Ireland international on the job hunt again after second sacking at Chesterfield
FORMER IRELAND INTERNATIONAL John Sheridan has been sacked as manager of struggling English outfit Chesterfield. Sheridan, who was previously in charge at the club between 2009 and 2012, oversaw a 3-0 defeat at Solihull Moors yesterday, with the result leaving his side third from the bottom of the National League (the fifth tier — a division…
‘He gave me my debut in professional football, which I’m immensely proud of’
A NEW EPISODE of The Football Family podcast — a collection of longform interviews with Irish footballers of past and present — is now available to The42 members. Our guest on Episode 13 is Patrick Cregg, who has been working as assistant manager at St Patrick’s Athletic since September following Stephen O’Donnell’s appointment as boss….