The Sports Pages
The big story in the news section of most of the non-rugby orientated papers is Chelsea’s FA Cup win against troubled Portsmouth. Didier Drogba hit a 59th minute free kick to clinch a league and cup double for the London side.
The Irish Sunday Mirror carries a story about how World heavyweight champion David Haye has been accused of dodging the Klitschko brothers. The pair claim they are the ‘real’ World champs and that Haye is ‘running scared’. It might also have something to do with the fact that the Klitschko brothers are so boring to watch that Haye would probably fall asleep during a bout.
The Sunday World has a nice little spread on the players who they reckon are the top targets for the various Premier League clubs. Apparently Stephen Ireland could be on his way to either Spurs or Villa while Robbie Keane might be heading to either Everton or Villa.
They also carry a feature from Sean McGoldrick about Charlie Vernon. It’s an interesting tale about the footballer who will be expected to play a big role in today’s Derry v Armagh game from Celtic Park. Kickoff is at 2pm and you can catch all the action on Joe’s live tracker on JOE Sport Sunday.
Star Sunday is highlighting some of the figures around the impressive new Aviva Stadium. They run with the headline, ‘Amount now due: €411m – now all we have to do is pay for it lads’. Cian Murphy also goes on to reveal that the GAA have managed to clear the €268m debt they had as a result of the redevelopment of Croker thanks in part to the cash generated by renting out the stadium to Irish rugby and football. Everyone’s a winner! Except tax-payers, obviously.
It’s very much horses for courses in the Sport section of the Sunday Times. They’ve opted to lead with the story of Leinster’s Magners League triumph over Munster with mentions for the FA Cup final and the quite ridiculous story of the FAI snubbing Barcelona who are practically begging to be allowed to play a friendly against Limerick FC. It’s a real own-goal from the FAI which seems to have ignored the fact that the game could be used as a means of luring Barca striker and cheating scumbag Thierry Henry to Ireland – so he can be arrested and executed.
