Martin Braithwaite
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Messi’s red-card outburst the act of a desperate, hopeless man
- Soccer
- January 18, 2021, 22:30
Exactly 90 seconds before the act of violence that will earn Lionel Messi his first red card for Barcelona, he’s standing just inside the halfway lin(...)

Experimental England fail to click in Nations League draw with Denmark
- International
- September 8, 2020, 22:12
Denmark 0 England 0 Pre-season is a time for experimentation and that is precisely what this was. A result that dented England’s Nations League aspir(...)

Barcelona hit the ground running as they thrash Mallorca
- Soccer
- June 13, 2020, 23:45
RCD Mallorca 0 Barcelona 4 Barcelona hit the ground running as they cruised past Mallorca 4-0 in their first LaLiga game since the coronavirus pandem(...)

All in the Game: Van Basten settles Messi v Ronaldo debate
- Soccer
- March 2, 2020, 14:00
Is Messi real? Arsene Wenger (2010) - “Messi is like a PlayStation player.” Luis Enrique (2014) - “He does things in training that I haven’t even see(...)

Real Madrid go top as Zidane finally gets Bernabéu win over Barca
- Soccer
- March 1, 2020, 22:13
Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 0 Almost 2,000 days – 1,954 to be precise – since they had last managed it, the Santiago Bernabéu saw their team beat Barcelo(...)

All in the Game: how Firmino’s agent made him faster . . . on his laptop
- Soccer
- February 24, 2020, 14:00
Pulling a fast one over Bobby It was a couple of years ago that Ernst Tanner, then the sporting director of German club Hoffenheim, recalled the time(...)

McCarthy left with much to ponder before March play-offs
- International
- November 20, 2019, 01:04
Mick McCarthy is in no hurry, he says, to write off Séamus Coleman in the wake of Monday’s Euro 2020 qualifying draw with Denmark. But the Republic(...)

Shane Duffy tries to piece it all together after Ireland fall short
- International
- November 19, 2019, 09:30
Shane Duffy had the look of a man with shellshock as he stood and spoke, but he clearly hadn’t quite satisfactorily pieced together what had just tran(...)

Keith Duggan: Resolve, composure, but not the result Ireland needed
- International
- November 19, 2019, 06:00
Never a dull moment, at least not in those wild, injury-time seconds when time and the world in general is pressing hard against the Republic of Irela(...)

Ken Early: Ireland need to embrace power of positive thinking
- International
- November 18, 2019, 22:40
In every victory you need a defining moment to go your way, and the 31st minute last night felt like just such a moment, when Denmark’s Andreas Cornel(...)