Inside Track: Curiosity Corner

This week: RB

1: He kept goal for Dundalk in the McLaughlin Era

2: Robert de Niro was the boxer in this film

3: There are 15 of them on the table

4: The first to break 4 minutes for the mile

5: You could find an angler here

6: He broke Irish hearts at Italia 90

7: He played for Dowdallshill, Glyde Rangers and Louth seniors

8: It’s a famous stadium in Pasadena

9: It gives its drivers wiiings

10: A former Liverpool manager

HE SAID

“He knows we want to give 110% and not waste this position we’re in, and we know when it’s time to work and when it’s the right time to do things like go to Copenhagen dressed as a turtle.”

Andy King is happy with the way Claudio Rasneiriis managing things as Leicester City push for the Premiership title in 2016. The Bees made it, giving a nice return to punters who backed them to win the title at 500/1.

Raneiri didn’t get much time to rest on his laurels. He was gone the following season. Since then he has filled a number of posts, and is presently a football director with the Italy team.

FIND THE GAA COUNTY GROUNDS

Carers pile (5,5)

FANCY THAT!

Tipperary beat Clare in the 1938 Munster Hurling Championship, but lost the game on an objection. They had fielded a player who was under suspension – for attending a rugby match in Dublin.

Bobby Moore, captain of the England World Cup-winning team, had his medal collection put on sale in 2000 by his wife. His former club, West Ham, bought them, the World Cup medal among them, for £1.8m.

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Ever hear of Larisa Latytina? You would if you’re sport is gymnastics. The Russian athlete won 19 Olympic medals, a Games record, covering all sports, that stood until it was beaten by American swimmer, Michael Phelps, in 2012

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Still on the Olympics. There was no boxing on the Stockholm Games schedule because Swedish organisers wouldn’t allow it.

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The 1994 All-Ireland hurling final was drawing to a close with Limerick leading Offaly by five points. Offaly were awarded a 21m free, which Johnny Dooley was instructed from the line to tap over the bar. Instead he went for a goal and scored. Offaly followed with 1-5 to win the match by six points. Éamon Cregan, an All-Ireland winner with Limerick, was in charge of the Offaly team.

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When Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in the 1983 European Cup final they became the sixth successive English club to win the title. Previous winners were Liverpool (3) and Nottingham Forest (2). Liverpool regained the title in 1984 after Hamburg had stopped the England teams’ run.

THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG HERE

Cliff Thorburn was chasing a huge pot when he made the perfect start to a frame at the World Snooker Championship. £100,000 was on offer for the first player to score maximum 147.

The Australian got in for the first red and followed with a black. That trend continued until he got to the colours. It was then the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, giving him the perfect score and a massive cheque.

THE NAME IS THE SAME

A multiple winners on the English Flat racing’s jockeys championship in years gone by, and the trainer of two Aintree Grand National winners.

ANSWERS

Know Your Initials: 1 Richie Blackmore, 2 Raging Bull, 3 Red Balls, 4 Roger Bannister, 5 River Bank, 6 Roberto Baggio, 7 Richie Barry, 8 Rose Bowl, 9 Red Bull, 10 Rafael Benitez.

Find The County Grounds: Pairc Esler. There’s Something Wrong Here: Cliff Thorburn is a Canadian. The Name Is the Same: Gordon Richards.