Sour taste

We're prepared to stake our life savings of £12

We're prepared to stake our life savings of £12.36 on this prediction: whoever wins the FAI Cup final replay won't be drinking champagne out of the cup in time-honoured fashion. Why? Over to you Dermot Keely (Shelbourne manager). "I was very fortunate during the Seventies and Eighties to have the cup at home most years, in fact I never had to buy a potty for the kids, I used train them in it," he said on RTE yesterday. Uggh.

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