THE FAI is to appeal a €5m UEFA fine following last night’s Euro 2020 qualifier which saw Ireland win by more goals than they’re legally allowed to, WWN can confirm. As stipulated in an age-old ruling, the Republic Of Ireland are only permitted to partake in scoreless draws or hard-fought one-nil victories, on top of being allowed to lose by… Read more »
“NO, NOT those long ball fundamentalists again! They’re attacking football atheists,” cried out members of Denmark’s national team after learning that they will play familiar foes Ireland for what must be the 17th time this year alone. Threatening to strangle themselves with with high vis training bibs while a holding football cone to their manager’s… Read more »
A LOCAL Liverpool FC fan is still riding high on his club’s recent Champion’s League win, much to the irritation of his non-Liverpool supporting colleagues, WWN Sport can report. Damien Cleary is showing no signs of celebration fatigue as he strolled into work wearing Liverpool socks, shorts and jersey as well as what eye witnesses… Read more »
WHICH team will lift the Champion’s League trophy and be crowned the 2019 winners? In our pre-final preview WWN Sports assesses both teams and predicts where the game will be won and lost. Pre-match entertainment: There will a bloody fight to the death between a cockerel representing Spurs, and a liver bird representing Liverpool. The… Read more »
SUNDAY brought an end to yet another thrilling edition of the Premier League with Manchester City winning the league. WWN Sports casts an eye over the season’s big winners and big losers. Winners – City Well, because, they won. That’s how this thing works. ‘Winners’ – Liverpool This year represents the first ever year the… Read more »
AFTER penning the compelling twists and turns of this season’s Champion’s League, the writer of the football epic has been parachuted in at the last minute to rewrite HBO’s Game of Thrones final outings. Heart-stopping and ingenious outcomes no one saw coming in the Liverpool v Barcelona and Ajax v Spurs episodes have landed largely… Read more »
THE football world set about trying to fully process what Liverpool has just achieved, pouring over the game’s finer details and surmising the only way it would have been possible to overturn a 3-0 first leg deficit against Barcelona would be by utilising every last FIFA19 cheat code and secret that exists. “Point to where… Read more »
JURGEN KLOPP’S injury ravaged Liverpool side will have a retro look for their second leg Champion’s League tie against Barcelona tonight after the German announced the surprise inclusion of prolific strikers Robbie Fowler and Ian Rush. Trying to put Vincent Kompany’s 85-yard, 142mph wonder goal against Leicester to the back of their minds, the new… Read more »
AS THE SUN sets on the astonishing career of veteran jockey Ruby Walsh, so too does the dawn rise on local man Kenneth Whelahan’s realisation that Ruby Walsh is not, as he has believed for all these years, the name of a horse. Walsh yesterday called an end to his 24-year career which saw the… Read more »
AFTER 15 seasons in a row of near constant excellence on a scale never seen before, some football pundits and fans are rushing to a very reactionary and quick judgement about Lionel Messi being a good footballer, but the question persists – is he actually any good? The difference maker yet again for Barcelona, this… Read more »