The new attendance record for a women's football match is now 91,553 after a sold out Camp Nou watched Barcelona progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League with victory over rivals Real Madrid. The Catalans came from 2-1 down on the night to defeat Real Madrid 5-2, win the clásico and maintain their 100 per cent record for the season. A British teenager has been sentenced to six weeks in prison after racially abusing England's Marcus Rashford on Twitter.
The Munster football semi-final between Cork and Kerry has been moved from Páirc Uí Rinn due to capacity issues and will now be played at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney. With the decision made to move the game to the larger ground in Killarney. Cork will now host Kerry for the next two meetings between the sides in Munster. In his column this morning (Subscriber Only), Ciarán Murphy asks, where's the transparency about county managers' expenses?
Rory McIlroy believes it would be "phenomenal" if Tiger Woods can contest next week's US Masters.Woods had a practice round with his son Charlie and Justin Thomas at Augusta National on Tuesday. "If he comes back from this again," said McIlroy, "it's just, he likes to prove people wrong, he likes to prove himself wrong, I think." Check out Philip Reid's lowdowns for this week's Chevron Championship and Valero Texas Open here.
Meanwhile, the hip flexor injury Jordan Larmour sustained in the win over Benetton at the start of the month may require another two to three weeks before he can return to the match environment. Missing out on playing in the Six Nations was disappointing but he's consigned it to the past while any talk of making the Ireland squad to tour New Zealand during the summer is incongruous with his current circumstances.
