A CLASH WITH Scottish giants Rangers could be the reward for Cork City if they win their first qualifying round tie in the Europa League.
The Leesiders will face Steven Gerrardโs side should both teams advance from their respective assignments in the opening round.
City are due to face the winners of the preliminary round meeting of Progrรจs Niederkorn (Luxembourg) and Cardiff Metropolitan University (Wales). Rangers await the winners of the tie involving FC Prishtina (Kosovo) and St Josephโs (Gibraltar).
Shamrock Rovers and St Patrickโs Athletic are the other two SSE Airtricity League clubs in the Europa League. If Rovers are victorious against SK Brann (Norway), theyโll face Zalgiris (Lithuania) or Apollon Limassol (Cyprus). The prize for Patโs if they get the better of IFK Norrkoping (Sweden) will be a clash with Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) or FK Liepฤja (Latvia).
The first legs of the second qualifying round ties are due to be played on 25 July, followed by the second legs on 1 August. The first qualifying round games will take place on 11 and 18 July.
Rangers, who finished second to Celtic in Scotland in the 2018-19 season, last faced Irish opposition in Europe when they encountered Shelbourne in the Uefa Cup in 1998.
The Glasgow outfit were 7-3 winners on aggregate after a tie which saw Shels play their home leg at Prenton Park โ home of English club Tranmere Rovers โ due to safety concerns over staging the game in Dublin.
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Mayweather is a coward
Any man who hits a woman like he did is..
While they will both go down as 2 of the best pound for pounders, I think theyโll both also go down as the top two guys who devalued the sport of boxing as much as anybody else. I love boxing but if you look at the politics and corruption without boxing, itโs such an ugly sport.
If both men really wanted to prove their the best then they would have made this fight happenโฆ Mayweather is the best of all time but not fighting Pac shows he wasnโt the bravest or most courageous fighter of all time and has selected a hard, talented but ultimately lower class fighter such as Maidana for his next fightโฆ thatโs where the true art of boxing has been lost over the last decade.
Once upon a time Pacquaio might have beaten Mayweather but that time had passed in afraid. Love him or hate him Mayweather is one of the best weโve ever seen.
He continues to damage his credibility as a boxer and his fighting legacy with stupid throwaway comments like this.
If the challenging fighter isnโt a come forward brawler who walks into punches every round Mayweather has no interest in fighting them.
He will eventually give Pacquiao a shot so he can collect a massive payday, but only when Pacmans legs are completely gone, the same way he made Shane Moseley wait the best part of a decade until he was way, way past his prime and had the cheek to promote the farce as a โsuperfightโโฆ.
Iโd love to see someone beat the shite out of Mayweather! โฆ. Donโt think Pacquaio would be able too though..
Mayweather will never be beating. The greatest boxer of all time
Statistically
*beaten
I think what he is saying is pacman was using drugs when he had all the power. A little dig there
Good read, show the level of Mayweathers opponents to date:
http://www.badlefthook.com/2013/9/19/4747960/floyd-mayweather-and-the-10-greatest-unbeaten-fighters-of-all-time