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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
PLAY TEAMSHEET: Can YOU name the Wolves side that beat Liverpool 1-0 in 2010? Or pick YOUR team and guess their starting XI
Welcome back to Teamsheet... Mail Sport's original football memory game with a twist that gives you the chance to test your football knowledge against your mates. Liverpool may be Premier League champions, but, today, we are heading back to the end of 2010, when bottom of the pile Wolves earned their first win over the Reds in 27 years. The defeat piled the pressure on Roy Hodgson, whose side sat 12th in the standings themselves. We, though, want to know if you can name the team that Mick McCarthy put out that day. It's just for fun, so see how you fare and share your Teamsheet score... full instructions on how to play are at the bottom of the article and in the game itself. And you can also pick any team you like and guess their starting XI. Best of luck! HOW TO PLAY The aim of the game is to score as few points as possible! If you guess a player at the first attempt you score one point - so the lowest score for guessing every player at the first attempt is 11. Guess a correct letter in the right position, and it'll turn green. Guess a correct letter but in the wrong position, and it'll turn yellow. You have six guesses for each player - and if you fail, we'll reveal their identity for 11 points! You can also ask for a free letter, but it costs you a point. So play on to see if you'll score the best possible total of 11 - or fail on every player and score 121.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🎥 OTD: Holland strikes as Ireland draws Cameroon at the 2002 World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup is often viewed as one of the more memorable tournaments in football history, and the Republic of Ireland undoubtedly had a hand in that. It was on this day 23 years ago that The Boys in Green under Mick McCarthy kick-started their summer campaign against African giants Cameroon. Advertisement After going a goal down in the first half thanks to a 39th-minute strike from cult hero Patrick Mboma, Ireland would respond after the break through popular midfielder Matt Holland, whose low drive would slip into the bottom corner. A credible 1-1 draw to begin play in Group E would springboard Ireland to a second 1-1 draw on matchday two against world superpower Germany before a 3-0 win against Saudi Arabia saw them book passage to the round of 16. Ireland went on to fight heroically against Spain in a 1-1 affair before losing 4-2 on penalties, but it was a tournament they certainly would be proud of. 📸 Stu Forster - 2002 Getty Images
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'It's time to be back in the Premier League'
Former Sunderland midfielder Julio Arca says "it's time for the club to be back in the Premier League" as they prepare for the Championship play-off final against Sheffield Black Cats play the Blades at Wembley on Saturday and Arca told BBC Radio Newcastle: "When the game arrives tomorrow, I think the players will feel that atmosphere. "That is going to be fantastic to see so many Sunderland fans there in the stadium supporting the team. There's thousands going today. Thousands going tomorrow." He added: "Hopefully it's a good day for the football club. It's been a while now so I think it's time for the club to get back to the Premier League and play against some of the biggest teams in the world."The Argentine spent six years at the Stadium of Light and helped guide the club back to England's top flight in said: "I was lucky enough to win the Championship with Sunderland under Mick McCarthy and that was a fantastic season. That's when you realise how much it means for the people in Sunderland when you achieve a title. [Promotion] could mean a lot for the Sunderland fans."Arca is confident Regis Le Bris' side can get back to where many fans and pundits say they belong."I believe they can do it," he said. "Yes, probably the last seven or eight games the team didn't play as well as the fans wanted to see but at the end of the day you have to get through every game. Yes, sometimes they've been lucky but you need that on your side as well. "I'm sure the team's got enough. There's some talented players there that can change games and I keep my fingers crossed that hopefully they do it and they're back in the Premier League."You can listen to more from Julio Arca on BBC Sounds.
The Sun
23-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Man Utd just 16/1 for Premier League relegation next season as Ruben Amorim's post-Europa League troubles laid bare
SURELY, surely things can't get any worse for Manchester United than they were this year? In the immortal words of Mick McCarthy. It can! 1 The dismal performance and result in Wednesday's Europa League final means a summer of uncertainty ahead and no European football next year. In truth, a win would've papered over the gaping cracks at Old Trafford - on and off the park - but it would've allowed Ruben Amorim a chance to build a squad he wants. He admitted after the game he'd leave without compensation if the club wanted him to but he's since been given the backing of the hierarchy. However, now they're looking at a mass exodus of their top talents and a summer of transition, which will be difficult to do when building on the worst Manchester United side in history. Reports they could lose Bruno Fernandes would be the final nail in the coffin, given he's looked the only competent player on a reasonably consistent basis this term. As such, the bookmakers have responded and make Manchester United just 16/1 for relegation from the Premier League next season. Those odds sound terrible for United fans - and they are - but they're actually bigger than the likes of Brentford (5/1), Bournemouth (8/1), Brighton (10/1) and Nottingham Forest (12/1) with bet365. Premier League relegation odds Odds from bet365 Burnley 2/5 Leeds 8/11 Wolves 10/3 Fulham 5/1 Brentford 5/1 Crystal Palace 11/2 Everton 7/1 West Ham 7/1 Bournemouth 8/1 Brighton 10/1 Nottm Forest 12/1 Man Utd 16/1 Man City 20/1 Tottenham 40/1 Chelsea 100/1 Aston Villa 150/1 Newcastle 200/1 Arsenal 1000/1 Liverpool 1000/1 Rivals Manchester City are only slightly bigger at 20/1, though that's to do with their continued legal battles. Incredibly, the 16/1 to be relegated odds for United are dwarfed massively by the odds to win the league - at 66/1! And they're also their biggest odds EVER before a league ball has been kicked to end the season in the top four, priced up at a big 5/1. bet365's Steve Freeth said: 'There was always going to be one loser from the high-stakes game. 'For a club like Manchester United the consequences could be catastrophic. 'Transfer targets earmarked if they had gained Champions League qualification are likely to be discarded as the Red Devils may need to look further down their list of targets and possibly need to sell. 'Although they are 16/1 and not among the favourites to be relegated, there could be a knock-on effect. The losing mentality from their Premier League campaign at the end of this season, combined with this chastening defeat, may be hard to shift for a while.' Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who: For help with a gambling problem, call the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 or go to to be excluded from all UK-regulated gambling websites.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'No regrets' - Keane, Saipan and the story of a lifetime
With just two words and three syllables, Stephen Watson knew he had the scoop of his career. In Saipan airport on the eve of the 2002 Fifa World Cup, the BBC Sport NI presenter had not found Roy Keane in a particularly talkative mood but, such was the furore unfolding around the Republic of Ireland captain, any word from the mouth of the Manchester United midfielder would be the stuff of global headlines. The Cork native's forthright views on his side's preparations for the tournament in Japan and South Korea had sparked a week-long saga and provided the biggest story in the build-up to world's largest sporting event. One minute he was headed home, the next he was staying, but with just one utterance into Watson's microphone as Keane waited for his unexpectedly early return flight it became clear that the chances of a thawing of the frosty relationship with manager Mick McCarthy were remote. How did Keane feel about the sequence of events that had led to him being sent home from what should have been the biggest tournament of his life? "No regrets," he told Watson. "The biggest story of my career," recalls the presenter in the first episode of Hold the Front Page, which airs on BBC One NI at 22.40 BST on Monday. Watch: Stephen Watson interviews Roy Keane in Saipan What triggered the Roy Keane row in Saipan? As the programme - which delves into how journalists broke their most memorable stories - shows, the troubled relationship between Keane and his international boss dated back to when they were international team-mates. When the side arrived in Saipan for their tournament preparations without sufficient kits or footballs, Watson remembers wondering whether Keane's complaints were going to become "something that actually sticks and becomes a major problem or just a storm in a teacup". It soon became clear it would be the former with the fallout becoming one of the most infamous episodes in Irish sporting history, one that more than two decades later will be the subject of an upcoming film starring two-time Oscar nominee Steve Coogan. First Keane was to leave of his own accord, then he was to stay but retire from international football after the tournament. Finally, when word broke of how he had criticised his manager and the Football Association of Ireland in media interviews, he was on his way home eight days before his side's tournament opener. Watson says he was "still finding his feet" in his new job after joining BBC NI but soon found himself thrust into a huge sporting story, one which the time difference ensured would play out across a virtual 24-hour news cycle. "I didn't know as many of the Republic of Ireland players as I did the Northern Ireland players, so it was more a chance for me to try and get to know them," he recalls of the initial assignment. "Relationships in my job are the most important thing. Building relationships with sporting stars is absolutely key, but as it turned out, having those relationships didn't actually matter when the Roy Keane story broke." Watson admits he "took a gamble" to trust his instincts to stay behind when the Republic of Ireland team, and as a result the majority of the press pack, departed for Japan. "My feeling was if Roy Keane's staying here, I'm staying here. "There was the slightest opportunity that we could get some pictures of him, if we could get an interview with him even better. "It was a long shot." When Keane slipped out the back of what had been the team hotel to head for the airport and start his journey home, Watson and a few remaining photographers thought they had missed their chance but followed in a waiting van. "There was a heightened tension within that van because we thought we'd missed him. Suddenly, very close to the airport, we saw [Keane] in a white van and we were euphoric," Watson remembers. "Roy knew that he'd been rumbled and he jumped out of the van and then all hell broke loose I suppose. The flashbulbs went off left, right and centre. "I said to the cameraman we need to go and ask some questions and I fired off four, five, six questions and [Keane] never changed his gaze, he never even looked at me." As Keane waited in line for security, Watson tried again with the player's brief answers that followed the "gold dust" he had chased. "It was a short interview but anything said by Roy Keane was going to be powerful," he adds. Indeed it was with the quotes soon travelling far and wide. The Keane saga cast a shadow of Republic of Ireland's tournament. Reportedly written on the wall of the team's dressing room as they reached the last 16 of the tournament...'no regrets'. Watch 'Hold the Front Page: Roy Keane in Saipan' on Monday, 19 May at 22.40 BST on BBC One NI and BBC iPlayer.
