EPL: Liverpool 2-1 Manchester City

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Liverpool beat Manchester City 2-1: The key match statistics

Here's how the facts and figures broke down for Liverpool's win over Manchester City





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Ireland v England: Action from Dublin as Stuart Lancaster's side face the Irish, in pictures

Stuart Lancaster's England tackle Ireland in their third game of the Six Nations in Dublin





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Celtic thrash rivals Aberdeen to put one hand on Premiership trophy

The narrative of this match will reveal as much about the end of Aberdeen’s tilt at the title as confirmation in all but name that Celtic have retained it.

The scoreline was ultimately emphatic, a scenario which nobody could have foreseen during Aberdeen’s forceful start. By the final whistle the total collapse of the visitors meant they were lucky to escape with a four-goal defeat.

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Gruesome image emerges of Stephen Ireland’s leg after tackle

• Stoke midfielder suffers deep gash from Maynor Figueroa tackle

• Tackle could have ended Ireland’s career, says Mark Hughes

A gruesome image has emerged showing Stephen Ireland’s leg shortly after the tackle his manager Mark Hughes said could have ended the Stoke midfielder’s career.

Ireland was on the receiving end of a rash-looking challenge from the Hull City defender Maynor Figueroa and was substituted at half-time.

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JT McNamara’s struggle adds perspective to Cheltenham hoopla

Jockey’s fall two years ago has left him unable to move from the neck down but he approaches ordeal with the same courage he showed in the saddle

• JT McNamara paralysed by Cheltenham Festival fall

Approaching the second anniversary of the catastrophic Cheltenham Festival fall that left him paralysed, the Irish jockey John Thomas McNamara, along with his wife Caroline, recently granted an audience to the Racing Post. Alastair Down was the man tasked with asking the questions, a job the hard-bitten graduate from journalism’s old school admitted filled him with trepidation. Down described “the palpable air of apprehension as I walk in to see a figure venerated in the weighing room as a horseman who was as good as, or better than, 99% of jockeys who ever rode”. The picture so skilfully painted after his visit to Limerick was one of a husband and wife at something approaching peace with the savage hand dealt to them in March 2013.

With the help of his formidably capable wife and three young children, among many others, the man known to all as “JT” seems to approach the terrifying ordeal visited on him with the same courage and enthusiasm with which he participated in the sport that has left him unable to move from the neck down. His only grumbles? Frustration he is unable to play with his children, contempt for the treatment he received on the Dublin leg of a 15-month rehabilitation tour and good-humoured irritation with the apparently myriad mechanical shortcomings of the wheelchair that offers him some little independence.

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