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  • United enjoy the 'moment'

    Manchester United's Ryan Giggs is brought down by Steven Pienaar for the penalty that earned his side a last-minute winner at Old Trafford yesterday. The Everton manager, David Moyes, described the challenge as a 'moment of madness'. SOCCER: Alex Ferguson prides himself on the frequency with which his Manchester United players win games with late goals. "No other side in the world has done it as many times as us," he likes to boast but the manager was candid enough to acknowledge yesterday that the champions were "a bit fortuitous" in their 2-1 defeat of Everton. p

  • Eddie insists he will select coach

    RUGBY: Eddie O'Sullivan has said he will be primarily responsible for recruiting a specialised backs coach to the Ireland rugby team.This means he will choose his own replacement. Ithe wake of the IRFU/Genesis recommendation he will be relieved of that role in a realigned management set-up. p

  • Bumper crowds, bumper bets and odd bumper Inside

    Ruby Walsh: Ireland's champion jockey will partner Kauto Star at Kempton. RACING: Almost €11 million is expected to be bet at Leopardstown alone during the Christmas holiday period with the traditional St Stephen's Day fixture at the Dublin track being a focus for many in one of the busiest racing weeks of the year. p
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  • Chelsea keep the leaders in sight

    Blackburn Rovers 0 Chelsea 1: Jose Mourinho has long departed but there is no sense of the belligerence the Portuguese instilled in his players going with him. This was a Chelsea victory the Special One would have cherished, with the visitors enduring a testing examination in Lancashire that was made all the more demanding when Petr Cech left the field in visible discomfort. Avram Grant and the Chelsea fans will prefer to dwell on Joe Cole's splendid winning goal. p

  • Bendtner capitalises on 'fraction of a second' lapse

    Arsenal 2 Tottenham 1: Arsenal may top the table but they are really still in the midst of a long, tough climb. The players are trying to haul themselves to the eminence last attained when the club were the champions of 2004. It is absorbing to watch this emerging squad strive to cope with their own ambitions. p

  • Ronaldo penalty lifts United

    Manchester Utd 2 Everton 1: Cristiano Ronaldo is becoming so accustomed to scoring decisive goals for Manchester United he has taken to celebrating with the kind of expression first patented by the Fonz in Happy Days. You know the look: a mixture of smug satisfaction and bristling Cantona-esque indifference. Ronaldo has it to a T, putting it into practice once again after his 15th and 16th goals of the season ensured the club that put the X into Xmas party ended a difficult week on a happy note. p

  • Mascherano proves his worth

    Liverpool 4  Portsmouth 1: These are testing times indeed for Liverpool's owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Not only have their grand stadium designs been scaled down amid a struggle to secure funds for whatever might materialise in Stanley Park in 2011 but the gagging order imposed on Rafael Benitez is not as watertight as they had thought. p

  • Keane does not cross the line

    Reading 2 Sunderland 1: Club officials and media were congregated in the basement of Reading's Madejski Stadium. The conversation had turned from the heartbreaking nature of Sunderland's defeat and the controversy wrapped up in Stephen Hunt's last-minute winner to more irreverent matters. There was laughter, banter. p

  • Viduka spares the blushes

    Newcastle Utd 2  Derby County 2: Sam Allardyce may be regretting his decision to reinstate Christmas. Recently improved results had persuaded the Newcastle United manager to abandon plans to lock his players away in a hotel for four nights this week but they showed precious little gratitude here. p

  • Scottish League

    Rangers had striker Lee McCulloch sent off and missed the chance to go level on points with leaders Celtic after a 1-1 draw at Aberdeen yesterday. p

  • Beautiful game not marred by thuggery

      On The Premier League: One player banned for fracturing a fellow professional's eye-socket in an appalling act of thuggery. An international captain suspended for deliberately trampling on an opponent. And another top-level pro arrested and charged with assault following an unseemly brawl at a boozy party, all in the last 10 days. p

  • Baptista fires Real seven clear

    Barcelona 0 Real Madrid 1: Leaders Real Madrid beat their arch-rivals and closest challengers Barcelona 1-0 at the Camp Nou to take a vice-like hold on the Primera Liga title race last night. p

  • Inter rally to extend their lead

    Inter Milan 2 AC Milan 1: Serie A leaders Inter Milan came from behind to beat city rivals AC Milan 2-1 yesterday and extend their advantage over AS Roma to seven points. Argentine duo Julio Cruz and Esteban Cambiasso scored in either half to cancel out Andrea Pirlo's 18th-minute opener. p

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  • Leinster need home comfort

    Celtic League: This should have been the ideal springboard to launch Leinster and Ulster back into the tail-end of their European Cup pool stages but instead the festivities in both camps have been fairly muted over this holiday period. p

  • Kelly ends career on high

    The former Ireland centre John Kelly is to retire from a highly successful professional career after captaining Munster against Connacht at Musgrave Park on Thursday. p
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  • Sky's The Limit looks a standout prospect

    Leopardstown Preview: Sky's The Limit can round off some unfinished business with Wednesday's featured Durkan New Homes Novice Chase at Leopardstown and provide a grey shine to the St Stephen's Day festivities at the South Dublin track. p

  • Kauto and Walsh set to deliver

      Kempton, Limerick and Down Royal previews: Ruby Walsh will be treating every one of Kauto Star's rivals in the Stan James King George VI Chase with the utmost respect. p

  • Notable D'Estruval can trump them all

    It usually pays to take note when a top jockey spends his St Stephen's Day operating at the Limerick meeting and Barry Geraghty is a significant visitor this year. p
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  • England outclassed once again

    CRICKET: Coach Peter Moores insists it was England's failure to deliver rather than tactical mistakes which left them thankful to rain for damage limitation in Sri Lanka. p

  • Tis the season to be wary of big black boat

    SAILING/Barcelona World Race Co-Skipper's log: More than 40 days at sea and we're blasting along nicely now. There's a palpable air of excitement on board Paprec-Virbac as JP (co-skipper) Jean Pierre Dick) and I look forward to seeing civilisation for the first time in almost three weeks. Not that we'll be stopping; we have the overall lead to protect and this race is ours to lose. p

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    Today's other stories in brief p

  • Ghosts of Christmas past forever white

    Locker Room: Bah! Christmas! I was born too soon. I think if I were a kid now I would succeed in virtual sports almost as sweepingly as I failed at the real thing. I would like tomorrow morning to be unwrapping a WII/Playstation/Xbox selection of sporting diversions which I could safely excel at without the risk of burning calories or getting rained on. p
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