10. Marcelo Bosch gets knocked out by Dan Tuohy. Simples.

9. FC United goalkeeper Sam Ashton showed his strikers how its done with a goal from his own penalty box.

Ashton opened the scoring for the Rebels after just three minutes against Retford in their Evo-Stik Premier tie.  The wind was certainly a factor though.

8. Don’t mess with Kim Clijsters. She was privy to a relatively unkind text message about her, sent by former Aussie tennis hero Todd Woodbridge.

When he later interviewed her for TV, she wasn’t shy in bringing it up.

7. Sky Sports legend Jeff Stelling offers Matt Le Tissier a maths lesson.

6. Roberto Carlos has still got it. And by ‘it’ I don’t mean ballooning free-kick after free-kick out of the stadium

Back in Brazil, the former Inter Milan and Real Madrid full back scored directly from a corner. Cunning.

5. Often around here, we sing the praises of Leo Messi for his insane skills. But he proved last night, he’s human after all:

4. Replace the baseball bat with a hurley, and most of us have been there.

3. Paul Galvin will begin a new fashion column in the Irish Independent on Saturday. The blurb informs us that: “True to style, it’s colourful, lively and will have the whole nation talking.”

I don’t doubt that; here’s the Finuge man on Xposé recently.

2. There’s plenty of hype about Blake Griffin in the NBA this year. But he’s worth it, check out this ‘depants-ing‘ from last night.

1. An Taoiseach has just called a general election for March 11. But more importantly Ireland will be facing the West Indies in the Cricket World Cup.