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# Mind Games?

All time
'€222m in the physio room': Marseille boss piles pressure on PSG ahead of Coupe Classique
27 Feb 2018
7.3k
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'I told him: "you’re going to miss"' - Willian says he psyched out Ireland's David Meyler last night
17 Feb 2018
9.5k
13
Fabio Capello thinks Conte and Mourinho are 'out of their minds'
11 Jan 2018
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4
Women have a psychological advantage over men in sport - here's how it helps them under pressure
1 Jan 2018
4.7k
7
'The record belongs to you, Arsene!' - Guardiola dismisses Man City's invincible prospects
3 Nov 2017
6.5k
13
Mental skills: How telling yourself a good story can lead to success
31 Aug 2017
3.7k
0
'We play football in every part of the pitch - they don't': Kenny Shiels blasts 'long ball' Cork City
22 Jun 2017
5.4k
31
'They'll be under big pressure to live up to what happened 12 years ago'
18 Jun 2017
6.6k
6
'He keeps telling us he's got something up his sleeve other than his arm'
16 Jun 2017
9.2k
11
Lions schedule criticised by All Blacks coach Hansen
30 May 2017
10.0k
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Hansen: Lions could buckle under pressure
16 May 2017
5.3k
8
Mourinho: City favourites for top four, not United
26 Apr 2017
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43
Morrissey: The boy with the form in his side
20 Apr 2017
7.0k
4
'They have a hard edge but so have we' - Fitzmaurice hits back at 'lack of balance' in Dublin-Kerry narrative
5 Apr 2017
14.1k
59
'Ireland were favourites but they haven’t won the Six Nations': Jones begins mind games
13 Mar 2017
9.7k
22
England rugby coach Jones wonders if Scotland can back up 'big talk'
27 Feb 2017
23.9k
19
Kevin McManamon: I wouldn’t be playing for Dublin if I didn’t use sports psychology
17 Jan 2017
26.5k
11
7 mental tricks Olympic athletes use to perform under pressure
23 Dec 2016
8.8k
6
Hansen: Ireland won the last game easy, they have to be the favourites
17 Nov 2016
4.8k
8
Zidane brushes aside Pique's Champions League jibe
26 Aug 2016
9.4k
4
'Ireland weren't interested in playing,' says Springboks coach Coetzee
13 Jun 2016
13.9k
35
'They're 4-time champions, 3-time Heineken Cup winners. We must be 50/1?'
23 May 2016
30.8k
48
Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao played out an extremely edgy penalty shoot-out tonight
14 Apr 2016
7.9k
2
McIlroy: The occasion got to me again
11 Apr 2016
12.6k
17
Manchester United goalkeeping legend conjures some heroics in his comeback game
13 Mar 2016
10.2k
7
'Tottenham are title favourites'
1 Mar 2016
4.5k
5
The Frampton-Quigg row over the 'star' dressing room has definitively been resolved
27 Feb 2016
8.1k
9
Eddie Jones stirs the pot: 'Sexton's mother and father would be worried about the whiplash'
25 Feb 2016
11.2k
28
'That's his thing' - Ireland not biting on Jones' Stoke City comparison
24 Feb 2016
7.2k
9
'Probably not unusual for Wales' - Ireland set scrum record straight
6 Feb 2016
13.4k
19
'Dwell on the past, you're going to be stuck there': O'Donnell at peace with World Cup woe
27 Jan 2016
5.0k
4
Warren Gatland fancies Ireland's chances of a Six Nations hat-trick
19 Jan 2016
8.8k
14
Did Aldo get under McGregor's skin at the UFC 194 weigh-ins?
12 Dec 2015
38.3k
65
Big Sam: I enjoy winding up 'arrogant' Wenger more than anyone
13 Oct 2015
6.3k
15
Saint-André: 'Ireland are favourites, the pressure is all on their shoulders'
9 Oct 2015
13.5k
20
Man City beware! United have sent out a statement of title intent, says van Gaal
21 Sep 2015
5.9k
11
'I don't think Ireland play a lot of rugby' - Victorious Wales coach Gatland
29 Aug 2015
19.8k
57
Mourinho trolls Man City by saying transfer target de Bruyne was 'crying every day' at Chelsea
22 Aug 2015
11.4k
8
Cody 'absolutely certain' that Waterford can win the All-Ireland hurling title
4 Aug 2015
10.8k
15
'Some of the Tipperary players are some of the best that have ever played the game'
7 Jul 2015
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