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Ride that eagle Clint! It’s the sporting tweets of the week

Featuring a pampered rugby star, RiRi’s World Cup insights and the Queen in a Winehouse wig.

1. Colm Parkinson has been won over RiRi’s World Cup banter.

2. Only ‘Boring Milner’ could make Spain’s shock World Cup exit seem, well, boring.

3. Reporters were running scared, and covering notebooks, when Chilean fans broke into the press room.

4. Cathal Pendred thinks there could be a silver lining for the RTE pundit after he accidentally cursed once, then twice, on live TV.

5. Altidore ‘has blossomed into one of the planet’s best strikers’.

6. Ulster hooker Rob Herring got used to the high life as he toured with Ireland.

7. Luis Suarez may not get a warm welcome in the Liverpool dressing room after twice scoring off the back of club-mate Steven Gerrard’s errors.

8. Clint Dempsey is America’s sporting hero of the week after his early, excellent goal against Ghana at the World Cup.

9. Irish rugby’s Jenny Murphy with a startling #factoftheday

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