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Spain v Italy
20.06.2008 23:22
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Venue: Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Kick-off: Tomorrow, 7.45pm On TV: RTÉ Two, BBC 1: SPAIN head into a fascinating quarter-final clash with Italy tomorrow night knowing well that history is not on their side. Italy are nothing if not a bogey team for the Spanish, who have not beaten their Mediterranean neighbours in a competitive game since 1920.
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Now it becomes a game of will power and wile
20.06.2008 23:22
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CONSIDERING THE stakes it was hardly surprising that Turkey and Croatia would serve up such a tetchy affair. But nobody could have predicted this finish.
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St Patrick's Athletic miss chance to go top
20.06.2008 23:22
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St Patrick's Ath 1 Bray Wanderers 1: ST PATRICK'S Athletic lost out on the chance of moving to the top of the Premier Division table last night when they were held to a draw by a battling Bray side in a tense end-to-end encounter at Richmond Park.
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Sammon nips in to steal the show
20.06.2008 23:22
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Drogheda Utd 0 Derry City 1: A SOLITARY goal in the closing stages decided this one when Derry stole all three points from an encounter where they played second fiddle to a Drogheda side who created the lion's share of opportunities but couldn't find the net.
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City quick to kill off local rivals
20.06.2008 23:22
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Cork City 5 Cobh Ramblers 0: CORK CITY showed exactly what they can do when blowing away their local rivals at Turner's Cross last night to resuscitate their Premier Division hopes.
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Baker plays key role for Rovers
20.06.2008 23:22
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Shamrock Rovers 3 Galway Utd 1: DESSIE BAKER bewildered Galway for the second time this season as Shamrock Rovers won for the first time in the league in three months.
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Kaymer makes huge impression on the rest
20.06.2008 23:22
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GOLF INTERNATIONAL OPEN: BERNHARD LANGER last night declared his German compatriot Martin Kaymer ready for the Ryder Cup after seeing him scorch to a 63 and into a five-stroke halfway lead at the BMW International Open in Munich.
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Another vintage show by Charles
20.06.2008 23:21
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IRISH SENIORS OPEN: IT COULD hardly be described a miraculous performance for a man who limits his liquid intake to water and wine. But even by his own high standards, Bob Charles's level-par 71 in the opening round of the Irish Seniors Open at wind-blown Ballyliffin was a truly vintage performance.
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Expert has good news for Woods
20.06.2008 23:21
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TIGER WOODS could be back in action within 12 weeks of undergoing surgery to repair his damaged knee ligament. That is the view of top knee specialist Louw van Niekerk, who has performed similar operations on Premier League footballers.
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GOLF DIGEST
20.06.2008 23:21
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Els and JP Fitzgerald to go their separate waysBRITISH OPEN: Ernie Els has decided to make a change of caddie in the build-up to next month's British Open Championship, ending an 18-month partnership with Irishman JP Fitzgerald.
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It's a feast or a famine as Sligo's footballers bid to be recognised as more than interlopers
20.06.2008 23:21
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CONNACHT SFC SEMI-FINAL: Keith Duggan on the Sligo enigma, summed up, according to Michael McNamara, by their status tomorrow as champions as well as underdogs
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Wexford footballers have had a few Jems down the years
20.06.2008 23:21
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Tom Humphries on the colourful history of the county's football team, including being trained in the 1910s by the boxing blacksmith Jem Roche
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Followers of Clare will be hoping Flaherty can get them a long way
20.06.2008 23:21
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MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL: Ian O'Riordan on the man who has gone in a few months from fringe panellist to first-choice free-taker in the new, improved Clare team
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Which Limerick team will turn up?
20.06.2008 23:21
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MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINALClare v Limerick, Tomorro 2000 w, 4pm Semple Stadium, Thurles Live on RTÉ 2BEYOND THE obvious reward of making the Munster hurling final, there is a lot at stake here. Clare haven't contested the final since 1999, and haven't won it since the year before. While Limerick made it last year, losing to Waterford, they haven't won it since 1996.
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Dublin's appetite should be whetted
20.06.2008 23:21
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LEINSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL (replay)Wexford v Dublin Tomorrow, 3.50pm Croke Park: IT'S A mug's game giving the skinny on the rerun of a drawn match of such dubious quality. Take a gander at last week's jousting and the first half tells you that this Wexford team couldn't fight their way out of a sodden paper bag even if they pepped up on steroids for a year.
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