All good things must come to an end. After 69 games and almost four years, Liverpool have lost at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp tried to present a been-here-before-no-need-to-panic front, but his actions at half-time during his side’s 1-0 defeat suggest otherwise. Klopp went chasing after Burnley boss Sean Dyche as the half-time whistle sounded, incensed about […]

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It all kicked off at Anfield Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp went haring after Sean Dyche at half-time of his side’s Premier League clash with Burnley. The first half ended 0-0 after Divock Origi wasted a hat-trick of scoring chances. As the half was whistled up, there was a coming together between Ashley Barnes and Fabinho. […]

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After Manchester United’s win against Fulham, goalscorer Paul Pogba corrected a rumour about his post-match conduct last weekend

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“Just trying to do my part with service.” Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving insists he does not want a fuss made about him buying a house for the family of the late George Floyd. Floyd died in June 2020 after a Minneapolis police officer restrained him then knelt on his neck for almost eight minutes. […]

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“A rising tide raises all ships!” Conor McGregor is running back his UFC 178 match-up against Dustin Poirier this weekend, and says he is open to doing the same with Max Holloway. Holloway is a former UFC featherweight champion but he dabbled in the 155 lbs division in 2019, when he took on Poirier for […]

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“It’s the best I have seen him play for United” Heading into Sunday’s crunch game against Liverpool, at Anfield, not many were predicting Victor Lindelof would start in the centre of Manchester United’s defence. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had other ideas. We may have seen Eric Bailly mobbed by his United teammates after his brave block […]

5 years ago

A selection of straight-up legends and some cult heroes We have a cracker of a Scottish football quiz, which takes in a heap of club legends and cult faces over the past four decades. Following the success of our Serie A and Premier League quizzes, we wrap up warm and head to Scotland. Come join […]

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An amazing feat, and one that may never be replicated We are giving you just 30 seconds to answer this one tricky football question about derby-day and marquee-game goalscoring. We are looking for the only player who has ever scored at least one goal in… ‘De Klassieker’ [Ajax & Feyenoord] Derby di Milano’ [Inter & […]

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In the end, we could get the best of both worlds “If, tomorrow night, Khabib tells me, ‘I’ll come back but the only fight I’ll do is Georges St-Pierre’, it looks like I’ll have to get to work,” UFC president Dana White told Canadian reporter Stephen Brunt on Friday before he met with Khabib Nurmagomedov […]

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“It tells me I missed out on a really good person.” Back in 2013, Alex Ferguson had a book coming out not long after he had retired as Manchester United boss, and there were a couple of shots fired in the direction of his old rivals, Liverpool. The Scot noted in his book that the […]

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“I’m feeling very Olympic today!” Want to feel extremely old? Cool Runnings came out almost 17 years ago. If you’re anything like us, you have watched the film an embarrassing number of times, and are probably able to quote it extensively. But, as mentioned before, a lot of time has passed since this classic hit our cinema […]

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“It’s a big game coming up so let’s get ready for it.” For the first time in 40 months, Manchester United lead the Premier League standings. This United quiz brings you back, though, to the last time they led the league after 17 games of the season. That was back in December 2012, with Alex […]

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There was a VAR review, and it eventually ended with Luke Shaw getting a yellow Events were going along serenely at Turf Moor until there was all-out VAR replays after replays. When it was all said and done, Robbie Brady had a yellow card scrubbed off while Luke Shaw got cautioned. 27 minutes into the […]

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Mac-street’s back Over the years, as he has jumped from feather to light and to welterweight divisions, Conor McGregor’s diet and workout routines have been closely studied. Having looked gaunt for many of his featherweight (145lb) bouts – leading Urijah Faber to once remark “Guy looks like he was going to die, man” – McGregor […]

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“He’s now at the stage where he needs to go and play again.” That comment was made, on Friday, by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer about Timothy Fosu-Mensah. In truth, the Norwegian could have been talking about any one of five senior United players. While United have secured the January arrival of Atalanta attacker Amad Diallo, Solskjaer […]

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“He could have bottled it, but he did everything right.” Michael Owen could not get over the performance of 17-year-old Aston Villa star Louie Barry after he scored a cracker in his side’s FA Cup defeat to Liverpool. Jurgen Klopp put out big-hitters like Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, Gini Wijnaldum, Sadio Mané, Mo Salah and James […]

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It’s City vs Spurs in the final Manchester City were deserving winners over their rivals but it took a grim defensive lapse from Harry Maguire to book their passage to the Carabao Cup Final. Maguire was caught napping at the back post after both Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford failed to get a head on […]

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A 50th Premier League goal from Danny Ings saw Liverpool lose for the second time this season and cede the advantage to Manchester United The Saints were fully deserving of their first-half lead but the league champions threw the kitchen sink thereafter and were left fuming after two good penalty calls were swiftly dismissed. Danny […]

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Kate Abdo, who was covering the fight for DAZN, brought the house down with an off-hand compliment to Henry Garcia, Ryan’s father

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‘We will meet with Dana soon, we will discuss’ The current UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov insists he is not coming back and that McGregor vs. Poirier is for his belt. January 23 will see Conor McGregor make his latest MMA comeback at UFC 257 on Yas Island (a.k.a Fight Island) in Abu Dhabi. He […]

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Back once again. After two months away – searching our footballing soul, and the internet for questions – The SportsJOE 2000s Football Quiz returns for Round 19. We start off with teenage sensations, take in some big money transfers, blasts from the past and the classic ‘Who Scored More?’ round. Enjoy!

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20 names to get and some tricky ones. We’ve a great Arsenal quiz for you, and one that will require you to be on top of your Gunners game

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Now we know. The draw for the pool stages of the 2023 Rugby World Cup was held in host country France, this afternoon, and there were tricky draws for Ireland, Wales and Scotland. England, meanwhile, will be fancying their chances. The headline news is that hosts France have been drawn in Pool A with New […]

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Analysing Maradona’s brilliant solo goal against England in 1986, Joe Cole and Peter Crouch said VAR would have ruled it out for a foul on Glenn Hoddle

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“We were looking in the wrong spot.” We’re not sure how comforted Bryson DeChambeau will be after that frank admission by a spotter at Augusta National during the second round of The Masters. “If we’d have been in the right area, we’d have found it, no problem,” he told Golf. And if they had stopped counting […]

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“And that’s why when people tell me, ‘Oh, you can’t be yourself in rugby’, I say, ‘Well yes you can’.” Back in 1997, Nigel Owens was struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and attempted suicide by filling up on whiskey and over-dosing on paracetamol. He was discovered on a mountainside, brought by helicopter […]

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The England No.1 responded rashly after dropping a ball into the box Jordan Pickford was extremely fortunate not to concede a penalty and receive a caution after another rash, feet-first challenge in his box. Just three weeks after the Everton goalkeeper injured Virgil van Dijk with a knee-high challenge (pictured below), during a draw with […]

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Few would have seen this coming Not many of us would have foreseen a Keane vs Rashford feud exploding to life after Manchester United’s wretched home defeat to Arsenal. Roy Keane was more resigned and frustrated than the fire and brimstone reactions he has given about his former club in the past 18 months. The […]

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Roy Keane had plenty to say about Manchester United’s insipid performance in their home defeat to Arsenal United are in 15th in the Premier League after their latest defeat and it is hard to argue that they deserve to be any higher. Arsenal were vastly better, in all departments, and were good value for their […]

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Where would rugby be without a little strife over releasing players for Test matches and tours? Warren Gatland believes his British & Irish Lions squad to tour South Africa, next summer, could be made up with between 30 and 50% of England internationals. However, a fixture clash with the Lions’ first game could scupper the […]

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“You heard me, hippie!” You may have to draft in a few ringers to help you with this Simpsons quiz. Back in 1992, The Simpsons released ‘Homer at Bat’ and it quickly went into folklore as one of the show’s finest offerings. Almost three decades on, it is still a much-loved episode. We are paying […]

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“I’m looking forward, on Tuesday, to seeing me at Number One in the UFC pound-for-pound rankings.” Khabib retires. Who saw that coming? Looking back, it all makes sense. As Justin Gaethje tapped, for the third separate time in 10 seconds, Khabib Nurmagomedov knew he had done it all. He had fulfilled his vow to his […]

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In all likelihood, three of The Eagle’s latest victims will be scrapping over the vacated title After all the hatred and bile that came before, during and after UFC 229, the Khabib-McGregor book may have finally closed with some decency and respect. In October 2018, Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov met in The Octagon and […]

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CELTIC 0-2 RANGERS Alfredo Morelos has had his fair share of run-ins with Celtic but he finished on the winning side on Saturday, and even lasted the full 90 minutes. It was a day to forget for a strangely listless Celtic as they succumbed to a well-drilled and purposeful Rangers side. Rangers took only eight […]

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If you know your Spanish football, you’ll get off to a fast start. We’ve got a football quiz for you, today, that will test your knowledge of the European game. Can you name every top flight club, from Europe’s top five leagues, that begin with the letter ‘R’? We are looking for clubs in the top […]

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Another rollercoaster quizzing ride for you all to enjoy The JOE 2000s Football Quiz is back for another round and we have a nice mix of questions that will swerve you through two decades of footballing action, and characters. All the best!

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“As close as we could possibly be, already, that brought us closer.” The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat 106-93 to win Game 6 at Buena Vista, Florida on Sunday night, to clinch the 17th NBA title in the history of the franchise. It was an emotional night for many at the Lakers as […]

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“This is getting completely out of hand now.” James McClean’s sending off against Wales was unfortunate. His reaction to that decision was reckless. The last thing Ireland manager Stephen Kenny needed after five days of Covid-19 frustrations and rulings was a key player suspended for a competitive match. He will be hoping that the match […]

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4D transfer strategy from the team that brought you the Ander Herrera failed bid fiasco of 2013 While most Manchester United fans, and their club’s manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, were hoping transfer deadline day would see the likes of Sancho, Koulibaly, Dembele or Upamecano arrive at Old Trafford, Ed Woodward, Matt Judge and a crack […]

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“Believe me, something will be done about that” Scott McTominay could hardly stand still for more than two seconds as he faced the camera – albeit for Manchester United’s in-house TV channel, MUTV – and tried to talk his way through his club’s most abject performance in years. The Scotland international is a Lancaster lad […]

5 years ago

“Will you shut up, man! This is so unpresidential” US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden clashed early and often during the first presidential debate ahead of the 2020 elections at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The American public, and the wider world, watched on in their millions in the hopes of […]

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“We can’t wait for the sizeable Irish community within WA to see him pull on the Force jersey next season” Rob Kearney will be packing his bags soon and getting ready to end his playing days under the blazing Australian sun. The former Leinster full-back, who may have also played his last game for Ireland, […]

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This one will keep you on your toes For round 17 of the FootballJOE 2000s Football Quiz, we are going back to the 2000/01 season, looking at some of the Premier League’s fastest starts, transfer moves and finishing with the classic ‘Who Scored More?’ round. You’ll enjoy this. Most of it anyway!

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Newcastle United did not have a shot on goal until the penalty was awarded. Jose Mourinho did his best to keep a lid on his emotions after a late Spurs handball decision cost his side two precious points. Tottenham Hotspur should have defeated Newcastle by three or four goals. Instead, they ended up with just […]

5 years ago

“Sad about my season I must say” We may yet end a bewildering year by witnessing Conor McGregor box against Manny Pacquaio, and what of it?! Back in January of this year, before he dispatched Donald Cerrone in just 40 seconds, Conor McGregor was planning 2020 like a season. ‘The Notorious’ had missed all of […]

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The Midas touch… and a few clangers We have a football transfers quiz today that spans 35 years of the beautiful game, and a mix of good, bad and indifferent signings. We are giving the name of 16 managers and we want you to tell us the first signing they made after they took over. […]

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One of the teams is a giant of European football Can you name every top flight club, from Europe’s top five leagues, that begin with the letter ‘L’? We are looking for clubs in the top divisions of England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France. We will let you know what country the football clubs are […]

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“I don’t get it. I don’t understand it” UFC 254 will see lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov return to the Octagon for the first time since he defended his belt against Dustin Poirier in September 2019. Nurmagomedov is set to face number one contender Justin Gaethje after ‘The Highlight Reel’ dismantled previous top dog Tony Ferguson […]

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Let’s go back to an era when the internet was dial-up and they officially got rid of the back-pass We have another great 1990s football quiz and one that you may find a spot trickier than round one. 20 footballers to get and anything over 16 is great going. Best of luck.

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Football back before Google searches could give you a dig-out To keep you all going, we have devised a 90s football quiz that will test your knowledge of a great decade for the sport. There are a few familiar faces in there, and a few that you’ll need all your mental resources to get right. 20 […]

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