Can you write that out again on some copy paper for me
Iâll write it out on your forehead. Have a great weekend
Sound boss. You can leave off the golf and womenâs cycling
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Tis a weekend to be indoors methinks
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Get out and cut back your herbaceous border, you lazy bollix.
Friday 12 December
Men
6.15am Athletics World Triathlon Championship Final TNT Sports 3
10.00am Golf Alfred Dunhill Championship Sky Sports Main Event
12.30pm Darts World Championship First Round Sky Sports Main Event
1.00pm Horse Racing Cheltenham ITV1
7.00pm Darts World Championship First Round Sky Sports Main Event
8.00pm Rugby Leicester v Leinster Champions Cup Premier Sports 1
8.00pm Soccer West Brom v Sheffield United Championship Sky Sports Football
10.00pm Cricket New Zealand v West Indies Test Day 4 TNT Sports 1
Saturday 13 December
Men
7.15am Athletics Malaga Marathon TNT Sports Extra
9.30am Golf Alfred Dunhill Championship Sky Sports Golf
10.15am GAA 2025 Highlights TG4
12.30pm Darts World Championship First Round Sky Sports Main Event
12.30pm Norwich City v Southampton Championship Sky Sports Main Event
1.00pm Horse Racing Cheltenham and Doncaster ITV1
1.00pm Rugby Stormers v La Rochelle Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
3.00pm Liverpool v Brighton Premier League Premier Sports 1
3.15pm Rugby Clermont Auvergne v Sale Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
5.30pm Rugby Munster v Gloucester Champions Cup Premier Sports 1
5.30pm Rugby Bordeaux Bègles v Scarlets Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
5.30pm Burnley v Fulham Premier League Sky Sports Main Event
6.15pm GAA Ulster Senior Club Football Final Kilcoo v Scotstown TG4
7.00pm Darts World Championship First Round Sky Sports Main Event
8.00pm Rugby Connacht v Black Lion Challenge Cup Premier Sports 1
8.00pm Rugby Glasgow Warriors v Toulouse Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
8.00pm Arsenal v Wolves Premier League TNT Sports 1
8.00pm Falkirk v Hearts Scottish Premiership Sky Sports Football
10.00pm Cricket New Zealand v West Indies Test Day 5 TNT Sports 3
10.20pm Match of the Day BBC One
Women
2.00pm Ladies Football All Ireland Intermediate Club Final
Knockbride Cavan v Caltra Cuans Galway TG4
4.00pm Ladies Football All Ireland Senior Club Final
Kilkerrin Clonberne Galway v St Ergnatâs Moneyglass Antrim TG4 Player & YouTube
Sunday 14 December
Men
3.00am UFC Fight Night Royval v Kape TNT Sports 1
9.30am Golf Alfred Dunhill Championship Sky Sports Main Event
10.45am Athletics European Cross Country Championships RTĂ 2
11.30am AC Milan v Sassuolo Serie A TNT Sports 1
12.30pm Darts World Championship First Round Sky Sports Darts
1.00pm Rugby Harlequins v Bayonne Champions Cup Premier Sports 1
1.00pm Rugby Castres v Edinburgh Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
1.30pm Cricket India v South Africa T20 TNT Sports 2
2.00pm Sunderland v Newcastle Premier League Sky Sports Main Event
2.00pm Crystal Palace v Manchester City Sky Sports Premier League
2.00pm Nottingham Forest v Tottenham Sky Sports Football
3.15pm Rugby Toulon v Bath Champions Cup Premier Sports 2
3.30pm St Mirren v Celtic Scottish League Cup Final Premier Sports 1
4.30pm Brentford v Leeds Premier League Sky Sports Main Event
7.45pm Bologna v Juventus Serie A TNT Sports 1
8.00pm AlavĂŠs v Real Madrid La Liga Premier Sports 1
10.35pm Match of the Day BBC One
1.00am NFL Vikings v Cowboys Sky Sports Main Event
Women
2.00pm Camogie All Ireland Intermediate Club Final
Ballincollig Cork v Camross Laois RTĂ Player
4.00pm Camogie All Ireland Senior Club Final
Athenry Galway v St Finbarrâs Cork RTĂ 2
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Back in the day when we were a proper country a fixture like this would have been a must watch. It would have got the full Tom McGurk/George Hook/Popey treatment.
Now itâs just noise nobody hears, stuck away on Didgeridoo Sports 2.
Nobody knows what if anything is at stake and frankly it might as well not be happening.
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Theyâve ruined the Champions Cup completely with this new format which only originally came in during the Covid season of 20/21. The old pool stages with 6 home and away fixtures had serious gravitas and a tradition that could be followed. You knew if you were going to qualify with 4/6 then youâd need bonus points to beat the band.
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The problem isnt tv goys, its the sport.
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Champions league is horrendous now as well.
Gaa go is doing incredible harm too as the gaa try and play 17 games at one time.
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Itâs like with everything. Administrators fail to understand to what made the competition great in the first place and decide to cash in and go meddling and ruin the thing.
The forthcoming association football World Cup will have the football - far too much of it - and nothing else. Everything else about it will be horrific.
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Did you listen to the gooning podcast on Second Captains?
All these obscure pay TV channels nobody watches and the vast amount of games nobody knows whatâs at stake in, itâs like the sporting equivalent of gooning.
All sport, all the time, all of it shit.
Most of it seems to exist for betting purposes.
I had no idea Man City were playing Real Madrid during the week.
There was a time when you could nearly justify going to the pub for two pints and a packet of OâDonnellâs crisps for a game like that.
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It was faceless. And that was even with it being on RTE. The rest of this bloated monstrosity is even more faceless.
The Champions League nights of the 1990s and into the 2000s and even into the 2010s were must watch communal events.
The communality has gone right out of it.
When we celebrated Troy Parrottâs winner, we werenât just celebrating Ireland staying in the World Cup in the most dramatic of circumstances, we were celebrating that it was a rare event that had the true communality of old.
But you look at the shit coming out about the ticket prices for the World Cup and you look at Infnatino and just think ah fuck it. Ruiners, ruiners, ruiners.
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Even the darts is now completely bloated with way too many games. Next Thursday would have been plenty time to start it.
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The last time Man City played in the group format of the champions league their opponents were Leipzig, Young Boys and Red Star Belgrade. They won every game and qualified a mere 14 points ahead of YB at the end of the 6 game league. I reckon anyone going to the pub to watch any of them games had a drink problem.
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You only need to go back to 2011-12 and 2012-13 to see them dumped out acrimoniously in the group stage. Their seeding improved but instead it was Newcastle and Man United who didnât make it out of the last iteration of the old group stage 2 years ago. Itâs not as marked as the Heineken Cup/Champions Cup ruination mind you. Its whole USP was that only 8 teams made it out of the pools alive.
The new Champions League format has been a breath of fresh air. The TNT goals show is almost as exhilarating as NFL Redzone. I cried tears of joy when Liverpool Football Club were inaugural group phase winners last season