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But we have a busy weekend in sports because big games are happening in the Premier League, we see Manchester United who go three points clear at the top of the table after their one nil against Burnley on Tuesday night, facing beholders, Liverpool and in rugby, the men six nations are going to go ahead, but the women's and the other 20 championships are postponed at TBA. Joining us to talk about all of this off the Bulls own Shane Owen. Good morning.

Good morning, Pat.

Now a match to savour, I think the Liverpool hosting Manchester United, Manchester United and having a good away record this season.

So what do you expect exactly? Brilliant to record for Manchester United, having been beaten away from home in a year at this point in the Premier League? So you would expect a brilliant performance from them? I don't think that we can, because let's not forget that Liverpool have been far from flawless this season. They've had a heap of injuries and they've been paying the price for those injuries in recent weeks. We thought that there would have been some sort of resurgence that seven Alwin against Crystal Palace was the sort of result that you thought would see the start of a dominant run from Liverpool.

That has not been the case. Now, Manchester United, on the other hand, I guess at the end of November, going into the Christmas period, we thought that perhaps you are starting to see cracks once again in that squad and the opposite has happened. And it is remarkable that we are sitting here in the middle of January with Manchester United on top of the Premier League. This is the first time that has happened in the post Alex Ferguson era.

And it makes it all the more exciting where the table tablets to be turned. It been, but there were three points behind. You probably wouldn't give them much of a chance in this title race. Bush, if they avoid defeat at the weekends and maintain that three point gap or perhaps even extend it, then they are 100 percent likely contenders. The main other player in all of this, of course, is Manchester City. We might chat about in a moment at their four points behind Manchester United, but they have a game in hand.

They could come between the two of them and run away with this title race. Yes, but right now in the Manchester United versus labor battle in first versus second, this is an awfully exciting time for this game to come along.

Yeah, and a lot of stuff about Marcus Rashford. I mean, Matt Hancock made a total idiot of himself during the week, the health secretary, when he was asked about Marcus Rashford success in getting the government to do a U-turn. In fact, it's a it's a brilliant interview to watch for any aspiring interviewer to see Matt Hancock's discomfiture. But some people, one particular journalist being slagged off for talking about Marcus Rashford and whether or not his advocacy for children and getting them properly fed was going to affect or did affect his performance on the field.

It's a pretty harsh assessment of Marcus Rashford, you look at his Premier League stats this year, he's scored seven goals, got five assists last season, his best season in the Premier League. He scored 17 goals and got seven assists. So he's not far off that he's actually on track to match that at least this season. So he's having as good a season as we've seen for Marcus Rashford in recent times. The team has got better. He set up the winner in midweek.

I don't see the big deal about what's going on. But Marcus Rashford at the moment, like I mean, you can ask the question, is he being distracted by his work on his phenomenal work on providing free school meals for kids across the UK? You've got to be prepared if you ask that question to realize that the answer to that question is no. He he clearly hasn't been distracted by it. He has been outside of Bruno Fernandez, possibly Manchester United's best player in that attack.

And he's having a really good season. Of course, there have been moments where he's been better and from the gold. He has missed opportunities here and there. Most everybody misses opportunities. There are a number of different factors for that. And I think it's extremely harsh to look at that as a reason why Marcus Rashford may not be shooting the lights out every single week. Fatigue has to play a part here as well. These players are being asked to play every two or three days at this point.

Now, you mentioned Mound City.

They're playing Crystal Palace on Sunday. Is that more a formality for them? Crystal Palace can be difficult. As was proved last night, serving up a good old board draw against Arsenal nil, all as I mentioned there, that seven nil drubbing they received at the hands of Liverpool seems to have woken up a little bit that they need to shore things up the back considerably to ensure that they can go and actually start trying to climb to table once again. And they've just been trying to keep it tied at the back.

And they will do the exact same thing against Manchester City on Sunday. It is the and the seven 15 kick off on Sunday and said he will go into that game knowing exactly what they have to do and if there will be an opportunity for them to go closer to Manchester United. If the gap can be closed city they'll have looked awesome at times over the last little while. Their performance against Chelsea was brilliant. It was their best performance of the season.

But midweek they did struggle a little bit. And their last fixture a couple of nights ago, there was perhaps a little bit of a lack of pace in around our final third, there was a last minute penalty for Raheem Sterling that he blazed over to Bar and Brighton team that have been poor at times this season and have given away a lot of goals. Manchester City could only put one pass them. So those failings that we saw in the middle third of the season that we've seen so far, they're starting to rear its head, perhaps once again for Manchester City, that they aren't as free flowing an attack as perhaps they looked against Chelsea a few weeks back.

Now, in rugby, obviously talk of the Lions tour being played in the Northern Hemisphere instead of actually going on tour, which seems a bit daft as Six Nations to go ahead, we think. But the under 20s and the women's postponed.

Exactly, it's hard to know whether or not this is the women's and the under 20s being left to one side and being told you're not as important as the senior men or whether or not they're actually going to get this thing spot on. And actually, it'll be the women and the under 20s who will now be better prepared for their six nations, because it could be a fancy for the notion that the Six Nations does go ahead this year. The organizers have said it will take place as scheduled.

Bernard Lapore has said it will take place as scheduled. But the French government has demanded reassurances of safety from England and from Ireland before allowing its team to visit those countries next month. So that could be the sticking point in all of this if Colvert cases continue to rise and that's continue to rise. And there is a terrible sense of the strain that exists in the UK and Ireland being a danger to the French players. You can definitely see a situation where they will not be allowed to travel and that will put the whole thing in jeopardy and maybe do it.

The women, six nations and the under 20s actually are acting before the inevitability here, knowing that later this spring or early summer, as they put it, might be a more realistic time frame. As for the lions, you mentioned, their home lions tour does seem ridiculous as some people have supported us. But really, the whole point of the Lions tour is that you can join forces with your nations here in Ireland and and in the UK. But the whole point is that you're playing all your games away from home and having home advantage.

Plus a combination of nations would just take the whole point and the whole discomfort that is supposed to be associated to the Lions out of this.

And finally, own the GFA. The Ladies Gaelic Football Association has lost a champion.

Absolutely. Emond Ryan, the legendary Cork manager, passed away yesterday. He spent 12 seasons in charge of the Cork women's football team. They were on 10 all Ireland's 10 Munster championships and nine national titles during that time, winning 10. All Ireland's is an outrageous achievement. No matter who you are, no matter how long you've spent as manager of a team. But to do it in just 12 seasons was absolutely extraordinary. That Cork team was one of the most dominant teams in the history of Irish sport, and it is hugely down to the influence of Eamon Ryan, who knew he had generationally good players, that the best players, perhaps, that the Cork football will ever produce.

And he got the best out of them. He got the best out of that group, a young crop when he took them over and they matured not only into champions, but champions that will come back year after year after year and dominate their opposition. A huge loss, as you say. And you can hear some of the tributes over the past 24 hours from some of his players. He was loved as a man as much as he was as a manager of that team.

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