OFFSIDE QUOTE ME HAPPY
When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go Jose Mourinho will have chased after many players in his managerial career - but
surely never for the reason he sprinted after Eric Dier, in what could be deemed as a s**t game recently.
In the 77th minute of Tottenham’s Carabao Cup tie against Chelsea, with Spurs 1-0 down, defender Dier suddenly raced off the pitch and headed straight down the tunnel.
Manager Mourinho set off in hot pursuit and TV cameras inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium showed the manager disappearing into the changing room seconds after the defender.
So what could possibly have prompted Dier to leave the fi eld with just over ten minutes remaining in a cup tie his team were losing?
“Everyone can imagine!” a grinning Dier said after the game.
“I am OK but that was a fi rst for me. There was nothing I could do about it and when you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. Some things you can’t stop.”
The hilarious image from Eric Dier’s tweet a er the game
“If I was to ever lose my job at the BBC, being part of the groundstaff at a Test cricket ground would be high on my list of potential alternate careers. You get to drive the super- sopper and there’s currently a guy in the middle at the Ageas using a leaf blower to spray away standing water. Great fun. Does anyone want to make me an off er?” The BBC reporter Matthew Henry during a rain break at the Ageas Bowl.
“Maguire’s japes are as nothing compared to that of Peter Beagrie, the undisputed champion of excess, who is now a pundit for Sky. In 1991, the then-Everton winger, on a bibulous night out in Spain on a pre-season tour, fl agged down a motorcyclist in the early hours who gave him a lift back to his hotel. When he couldn’t wake the night porter, Beagrie commandeered the bike, opened the throttle and roared up the hotel steps and through a plate glass window. It was the wrong hotel and he needed 50 stitches.” Ron McKay’s Diary, Glasgow Herald.
DIARY DATES
2nd: Horseracing - Preview Raceday, Plumpton (
plumptonracecourse.co.uk)
12th-15th: Golf - Masters, Augusta National (
masters.com)
15th: Football - Nations League: Belgium v England; Slovakia v Scotland; Wales v Republic of Ireland; Austria v Northern Ireland (
uefa.com)
16th: Horseracing - Start of National Hunt, Leicester (
leicester-racecourse.co.uk)
18th: Football - Nations League: England v Iceland; Northern Ireland v Romania; Israel v Scotland; Wales v Finland (
uefa.com)
19th-22nd: Women’s golf major - LPGA Tour Championship, Tiburon, Florida (
lpga.com)
3rd: Horseracing - County Raceday, Market Rasen (
thejockeyclub.co.uk/ marketrasen)
10th-13th: Women’s golf major - US Open, Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas (
usga.org)
10th-13th: Golf - European Tour: World Tour Championship, Dubai (
europeantour.com)
18th: Horseracing - Christmas Raceday, Haydock (
ascot.co.uk)
1st: Happy New Year
18th-31st: Tennis - Australia Open Melbourne, Australia (
ausopen.com)
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19th: Horseracing - Betway Tommy Whittle Chase, Haydock (
thejockeyclub.co.uk/haydock)
20th: Football - Scottish Cup fi nal, Hampden Park (
scottishfa.co.uk)
25th: Merry Christmas
26th: Horseracing - King George VI Chase, Kempton (
thejockeyclub.co.uk/ kempton)
Jurgen Klopp
“If the machine is jumping around like a child on its second tube of smarties, the ground is too hard.” Burden Bros’ David Guy, explaining the workings of a verti-drain.
“@SecPompeo on the @ICC: This is a rogue court with lawyers that are, frankly, corrupt and political, and they are threatening to persecute Americans who engaged in America’s fi ght for freedom in Afghanistan. That’s unacceptable. We want nothing to do with it” - The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo inadvertently picks a fi ght with the International Cricket Council after the State Department’s social media team confused their Twitter handle with one belonging to the International Criminal Court. The Tweet was deleted after the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Co- ordinator promised to “let our legal department know”.
“Who wants to lose 7-2? Years ago we told ourselves we wanted to create history. That was history, but obviously the wrong type. We lost balls in the wrong area and did not protect properly. It looked like we lost the plot after it went to 1-0. It is not an excuse. Jurgen Klopp reacted as Liverpool were thrashed by Aston Villa.
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