Joe Carroll's curiosity corner: Which "FF" was on Louth’s Team of the Millennium?

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Democrat sports quiz

KNOW YOUR INITIALS

It’s FF this week

1: Andrew is his correct Christian name

2: Where Jack Lynch, John Wilson and Sean Flanagan went to party after winning their All-Irelands

3: Hurdlers compete in this horse race at Newcastle.....

4: ........and sprinters in this race at The Curragh

5: A technique made famous at the 1968 Mexico Olympics

6: He was on Louth’s Team of the Millennium

7: Paavo Nurmi

8: Dan’s pitch down in Waterford

9: From Namibia, he won silver in the 100m and 200m at the 1992 Olympics and again in 1996

10: Where horse races are usually won and lost

SOME TREVINO-ISMS

Quotes from Master Golfer, Lee Trevino

“I thought I’d blown it at the 17th when I drove into the trap. God is a Mexican.”

“Don’t move, hole.”

“You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with two bucks in your pocket.”

“Little worm-burners” (Describing low-flying iron shots into the pin.)

“Watson scares me. If he’s lying six in the middle of the fairway, there’s some kind of way he might make five.”

THE NAME’S THE SAME

An exciting Irish rugby prospect who plays at full-back – and a former English National Hunt jockey who is now making a mark in the training ranks.

IT’S CONTESTED BY WOMEN

Go Ice Ma (7)

ANSWERS

Know Your Initials: 1 Freddie Flintoff, 2 Fianna Fail, 3 Fighting Fifth, 4 Flying Five, 5 Fosbury Flop, 6 Frank Fagan, 7 (The) Flying Finn, 8 Fraher’s Field, 9 Frankie Fredericks, 10 Final Furlong. The Name’s The Same: Jamie Osborne. Women’s Game: Camogie.

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