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We came out here to achieve that [putting Ireland on the map] not only to people around the world but to people in our own back yard. We can re"ect on a great seven weeks Ireland captain Trent Johnston on Ireland's campaign at the cricket World Cup We are not hiding behind the fact that the pitch needs work but we refute any suggestions that it's overtly dangerous. To suggest that is to overstep the mark. We would never stage a game on a pitch that we didn't feel was 100 per cent safe for all the participants GAA spokesman Feargal McGill denies that the Croke Park pitch is dangerous following the injury to Kildare's Killian Brennan last Sunday I have said 200 times I want to stay and see out my contract with Chelsea and the supporters have to believe that. If at the end of the season I leave the club you have the right to come to me and say 'Jose, f**k off, you're a liar' Jose Mourinho. Can't say it any plainer than that My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is planning on staying in England too, despite some worrying developments Overall I didn't care who got to the "nal, I just wanted to watch a game of football. I think we [Sunderland] would have taken either of them.
Seriously? On the weekend's performance I think we would Sunderland manager Roy Keane sees nothing to scare him at the FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers The teams from the north of England are terrible. When we play them I have counted their centrebacks booting up to 30 long balls up"eld per game. And the weather over here is killing me. We'll get one day of sunshine for every 30 days of rain, and it is driving me to despair.
My girlfriend and my mother are frightened about not seeing the sun in England. They miss Madrid.
I am Brazilian and I enjoy playing the ball, making clever touches and taking bicycle kicks, but the game is so fast I don't even have time to think about them. The moment you stop to think, someone has taken the ball off you and knocked you to the ground. Over here they value a corner kick more than a fancy "ick Arsenal's loanee Julio Baptista lists his reasons for not particularly liking life in England This is absolutely fantastic - it is better than sex!
Grand National-winning jockey Robbie Power. Nonsense Sweet The verbose Lewis Hamilton's response to becoming the first driver in Formula One history to start his career with three successive podium finishes If I had taken one more knock, I would have ended up paralysed, or even dead England hooker Steve Thompson on his reasons for retiring
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