OFFSIDE DIARY DATES
1st: Football - Carabao Cup Final, Wembley Stadium (
efl.com)
5th: Football - FA Cup fifth round (
thefa.com)
7th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, Ireland v Italy, Aviva Stadium, Dublin (
sixnationsrugby.com)
7th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, England v Wales, Twickenham Stadium, London (
sixnationsrugby.com)
8th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, Scotland v France, BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh (
sixnationsrugby.com)
10-13th: Horseracing - Cheltenham Festival (
cheltenhamfestival.net)
14th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, Wales v Scotland, Principality Stadium, Cardiff (
sixnationsrugby.com)
14th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, Italy v England, Stadio Olimpico, Rome (
sixnationsrugby.com)
14th: Rugby Union - Six Nations, France v Ireland, Stade de France, Paris (
sixnationsrugby.com)
15th: Football - Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals (
thefa.com)
19th-23rd: Cricket - Sri Lanka v England first Test, Galle (
ecb.co.uk)
21st-22nd: Football - FA Cup quarter- finals (
thefa.com)
27th: Football - Euro 2020 warm-ups: England v Italy; Wales v Austria (
uefa.com)
27th-31st: Cricket - Sri Lanka v England second Test, Colombo (
ecb.co.uk)
28th: Horseracing - Lincoln Family Fun Day, Doncaster
(
doncaster-racecourse.co.uk)
30th: Football - Euro 2020 warm-ups: Wales v United States (
uefa.com)
31st: Football - Euro 2020 warm-ups: England v Denmark (
uefa.com)
QUOTE ME HAPPY
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” - shy and retiring Ian Holloway describes how he’s feeling about life at Grimsby.
“I was running the towel and drinks out, I said to him: ‘Just imagine it’s another game at Durham, mate, you’ll be alright. Just try and hit the top off.’ And then I ran off thinking: ‘Why did I say that? We’re in the middle of a Test match in Cape Town, and I’m trying to pass it off as just another game.’ Then he got the wicket that over, and I thought: ‘I’m a genius’.” Mind doctor and 12th man Mark Wood reflects on his encouragement for Ben Stokes during the final few overs of the gripping Newlands Test.
“Coming back to England having lost the World Cup final was awful. The day I returned to Sale for training, I felt something on my shoulder - I turned round to see a World Cup winner’s medal and my smiling team-mate Faf de Klerk.” England Rugby’s Tom Curry had a pretty good 2019, apart from the World Cup final!
2nd: Golf - Women’s golf major - ANA Inspiration, Mission Hills (
lpga.com)
3rd-5th: Rugby Union - European Champions Cup quarter-finals (
epcrugby.com)
4th-5th: Football - FA Cup semi-finals, Wembley (
thefa.com)
4th: Horseracing - Grand National, Aintree (
grandnational.org.uk)
7th-8th: Football - Champions League quarter-finals, first legs (
thefa.com)
9th-12th: Golf - Masters, Augusta National (
masters.com)
10th: Football - Women’s Euro 2021 qualifying: Wales v Faroe Islands (
uefa.com)
1st-5th: Rugby Union - European Champions Cup semi-finals (
epcrugby.com)
5th-6th: Football - Champions League semi-final, second legs (
thefa.com)
9th: Football - Women’s FA Cup final, Wembley Stadium (
thefa.com)
9th: Football - Scottish Cup final, Hampden Park (
sfl.co.uk)
14th-17th: Golf - US PGA Championship, Harding Park, San Francisco (
pgachampionship.com)
16th: Football - League Two play-off final, Wembley (
thefa.com)
12th-15th: Cricket - first round of County Championship fixtures (
ecb.co.uk)
14th: Football - Women’s Euro 2021 qualifying: Belarus v Northern Ireland; Wales v Norway; Scotland v Portugal (
uefa.com)
14th-15th: Football - Champions League quarter-finals, second legs (
thefa.com)
18th-19th: Football - FA Cup semi-finals, Wembley (
thefa.com)
19th: Football - Women’s FA Cup semi-finals (
thefa.com)
28th-29th: Football - Champions League semi-final, first legs (
thefa.com)
Sonny Bill Williams
23rd: Football - FA Cup final, Wembley (
thefa.com)
23rd: Rugby Union - European Champions Cup final, Stade de Marseille (
epcrugby.com)
25th: Football - Championship play-off final, Wembley (
thefa.com)
25th: Football - Europa League final, Gdansk (
uefa.com)
28th: Cricket - first round of T20 Blast group matches (
ecb.co.uk)
30th: Football - Champions League final, Olympic Stadium, Istanbul (
uefa.com)
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“Option A: rub shoulders and train with Morgan, Narine, Russell and Cummins on a daily basis. And potentially play in front of 70,000. Option B: nick off to a medium pacer on a green one in 8 degrees in front of a few hundred pensioners.” Notts CCC and T20 ‘specialist’ Harry Gurney weighs in on the “should Tom Banton play in the IPL” debate.”
“They needed somebody in. I think he was not their number one and I would be surprised if he was their number two or three as well.” Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink says Odion Ighalo must be the ‘luckiest man’ in football after securing a move to Old Trafford.
“I just made far too many errors to be a professional athlete today. I just have to pretend like I don’t want to punch the wall, but in reality I do!” Serena Williams slammed her own performance after losing to Wang Qiang at the Australian Open.
“Look, I chased girls. I drank alcohol, spent lavishly and thought I was someone that I wasn’t. I lived that life and, in my experience, what did it give me? Hollowness and emptiness in my heart.” Rugby League’s Sonny Bill Williams on finding Allah.
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