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to see the Cork hurlers keep their summer alive too with “a performance that was full of guile and the required amount of grunt” against Waterford.
The Dublin footballers needed a bit of grunt themselves to get past Kildare on Sunday, Gordon Manning on hand to see them produceSpeaking of sloppiness: Liverpool threw away a three-goal lead against Spurs, before saving the day with an injury time winner. Ken Early had his work cut out trying to analyse. Among them Jürgen Klopp for “gracelessly celebrating the winning goal in the face of the fourth official”, and then launching a personal attack on referee Paul Tierney.
While Klopp ended up in pain after pulling his hamstring during his celebrations, it’s nothing to the suffering Spurs fans are enduring this weather. Denis writes aboutwhen the 3,200 fans who travelled to Newcastle for that 6-1 hammering a week ago had the cost of their tickets refunded by the players. Pain, argues Denis, is as much part of the life of a football fan as pleasure. A heap more pain than pleasure for the Spurs faithful these days, though.
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