From the cream of continental football and rugby’s greatest tournament to hard-hitting MMA, there’s spectacular sport aplenty on Virgin Media Television this season! Grab your foam finger and steel your nerves…
While the David v Goliath narrative will be rolled out in force, it doesn’t tell the full story of this match-up; the German side have more than held their own in recent seasons, even scoring a victory over Pep Guardiola’s men when the sides faced off in the group stages in 2021. There’s no doubt the Citizens will be well-fancied to march on though, with the irresistible force of Erling Haaland leading the charge!
Secondary competition? Someone forgot to tell the scriptwriters, because the UEFA Europa League is serving up a clash of the titans worthy of the very biggest stage! Authors of some of the most famous nights in European football, two storied clubs meet in the second leg of their last-16 tie, with the prospect of some elusive silverware guaranteeing they’ll be going hammer-and-tongs to head on to the quarter finals!
There’s nothing quite like the spring tradition of rugby’s finest locking horns in the world’s oldest tournament, and there’s no one fixture that gets the pulse racing faster than this one! With a bit of luck, Andy Farrell’s men will be vying for top honours at Aviva Stadium on the last weekend of games – and you’ll be well abreast of matters watching Virgin Media One, with eight live fixtures and extensive highlights of every round on the road to the final showdown!
The annual highlight of the National Hunt calendar, it’s all eyes on the Cotswolds as the runners and riders take their place for a week of first-rate racing to get underway! Recent years have seen Irish raiders make off with more than a fair share of the spoils – not least Rachael Blackmore’s history-making ride in the blue-riband event 12 months ago – so hopes will be high that there’ll be plenty to make noise about across the four days, culminating in Friday’s running of the Gold Cup.
3Arena will be a cauldron as MMA’s finest duke it out on a massive night for Irish combat sports. A Welterweight World Championship unification bout tops the bill, with unbeaten champ Yaroslave Amosov renewing hostilities with interim king Logan Storley, but there’s plenty for local fans to shout about too; homegrown heroes Peter Queally, Ciarán Clark and Sinead Kavanagh are all in action in what promises to be a night filled with thrills and spills – and, hopefully, some Irish wins!
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