Murray Kinsella

4 days ago | the42.ie | David Sneyd |Paul Fennessy |Murray Kinsella

BRAZILLIAN SIDE BOTAFOGO booked their place in the last 16 of the Club World Cup on Monday despite a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid which was not enough to prevent the Spaniards crashing out, as PSG progressed to the last 16. Atletico, routed 4-0 by Paris Saint-Germain in their opening game of the tournament, went into the final round of Group B fixtures knowing they would likely need a big win to advance.

4 days ago | the42.ie | Murray Kinsella

IT TOOK LESS than 10 minutes for the Lions to start looking like an Andy Farrell team. Luke Cowan-Dickie nearly scored the opening try of the game from a close-range maul, only to knock on over the line, meaning a goal line drop-out for Argentina. Farrell’s Ireland have made clever, detailed set-piece plays from goal line drop-out receipt one of their calling cards in recent years, so this was always going to be an interesting moment.

4 days ago | the42.ie | Murray Kinsella

THEY DIDN’T HAVE all the good channels in Josh van der Flier’s house when he was growing up, so he used to have to go elsewhere to watch the Lions. The handy thing was that his grandparents had Sky and only lived across the road in Wicklow. Good memories, although van der Flier recalls one mishap in 2005. “We had a family video and we taped over it by mistake,” he says. “So we used to watch that over and over again. “We didn’t have the TV channels at home, it was just cassettes.

5 days ago | the42.ie | Murray Kinsella

THE LIONS HAVE landed in Australia and are determined to get properly up and running after Saturday’s sloppy defeat to Argentina. Andy Farrell’s men arrived in Perth today after a stopover in Doha Airport and will begin to acclimatise ahead of Saturday’s second warm-up match against the Western Force. The tourists were met by fans at Perth Airport, signing autographs and posing for selfies as they got an early taste of the reception they will get Down Under.

6 days ago | the42.ie | Murray Kinsella

FINN RUSSELL SAID that Lions boss Andy Farrell quickly dealt with any potentially troublesome feelings between the Scotland out-half and assistant coach Johnny Sexton this week. Sexton questioned Russell’s credentials as the Lions out-half last autumn before he had joined Ireland and then the Lions as an assistant coach to Farrell.