THE BIG DERBY STATS
Elliott jockey’s hell as trainer is banned
Manchester City have lost three of their last five home league games against Manchester United (D1 L1), including a 1-2 defeat last season. They’ve not lost consecutive home league games against United since April 2010.
Manchester United are looking to win three consecutive away games in all competitions against Manchester City for the first time since a run of four between November 1993 and November 2000.
City have kept a clean sheet in both of their meetings with United this season (0-0 Premier League, 2-0 Carabao Cup). The last team to record three shutouts against the Red Devils within a single season was Arsenal in 1998-99.
United are unbeaten in 21 away Premier League matches (W13 D8) – in top-flight history, only Arsenal have had a longer away unbeaten run, going 23 without defeat between August 2001 and September 2002, and then 27 without defeat between April 2003 and September 2004.
The Sky Blues are unbeaten in 28 games in all competitions – if they avoid defeat here they will
set a new club record for games without defeat.
The Citizens have also won each of their last 21 matches, the third ever longest run in all competitions among teams in the big five European leagues.
The Reds have drawn their last three matches goalless in all competitions – they have never drawn four in a row goalless, while the last Premier League side to do so was Tottenham back in February 2001.
Sergio Aguero has hit nine goals for City in 16 Manchester derbies in all competitions. However, eight of those nine goals came in his first eight meetings with United, with just one in his last eight against them.
GORDON ELLIOTT’S stable jockey Jack Kennedy admits the Closutton staff are ‘devastated’ at losing so many star horses.
Meath trainer Elliott (inset, bottom) yesterday received a six-month ban, with a further six months suspended, and a €15,000 fine from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board over the photo that shocked racing.
Leading owners Cheveley Park Stud earlier this week took their horses out of Closutton after the image emerged of Elliott sitting on a dead horse. Kerryman
Kennedy (inset, top) has learned he will continue his association with Cheveley Park superstars like Evoi Allen at this month’s Cheltenham Festival.
But any joy he had at keeping them rides has been dampened by the mood at Elliott’s stables. He told Racing TV: “I’m kind of the lucky one, I get to keep the rides on Envoi Allen, Quilixios and Ballyadam. “I suppose it is tough for everyone in the yard. They were devastated when the horses were leaving. It’s just a massive blow to a team that works so hard.”
ACROSS
Film sprig (5) Swimmer’s new tutor (5) That woman’s in the right (3) Hear about British drug treatment (5) Talk at zero speed (5) Fewer around animal (3)
Now overthrow is gained (3) Catch in one trap (3) Second person to sound like a sheep (3)
Gold entrance initially was sweet (6)
Dance film (4) Feat, organising Greek export (4) Rip-off boy in the clink (6) 29 One writer’s novel (3) Swimmer feeling around (3)
Snow White’s GP? (3)
34 Are back for a long time (3) Point duel out to avoid (5) Bean shows sign of life (5) 38 Shade of credibility (3) Met to design emblem (5)
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Inundate in the bathroom? (6) The Roman’s conqueror (4) Colour of zero scope (6) The first to hire a river (5) Article thanks to foreign character (5) Unprepared for war breaking out (3)
Honour your leader and submit (4)
In Paris, you double the skirt (4) European lake is creepy (5) Choose new top (3)
19 A record peak (3) 20 Initially an
alien ship (1,1,1)
22 Level with first
woman (3)
24 Last to finish
by river (6)
25 Endorse account by journalist, to a point (6)
Paper around large field (5)
28 Steel broke in cold conditions (5)
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sent home (4)
30 Wife upset pet and broke down (4) Socialist takes nothing back to river (4)
Feel remorse, the French way (3)
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Fire (5)
Food fish (5) Pronoun (3) Dependence treatment (5)
11 Speak in public (5) 12 Female sheep (3)
13 Was victorious (3) 14 Mesh (3)
16 Thee (3)
18 Cake (6)
21 Stagger (4)
23 Crumbly cheese (4) 26 Jail (6)
29 Fresh (3)
31 Long fish (3)
32 Medic, informally (3) 34 Age (3)
36 Evade (5)
37 Beat (5)
38 Colour (3)
39 Symbol (5)
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1 Brief rainfall (6)
2 Idol (4)
3 Fruit (6)
4 English river (5)
5 Greek letter (5)
6 Uncooked (3)
7 Comply (4)
8 Ballet skirt (4)
15 Supernatural (5) 17 Choose (3)
19 Mountain (3)
20 Flying saucer (1,1,1) 22 Previous day (3) 24 Survive (6)
25 Agree to (6)
27 Kingdom (5)
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precipitation (5) 29 Bird’s home (4) 30 Cried (4)
33 European river (4)
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In which month of the year do the French celebrate Bastille Day, their Fete Nationale? What do the following words have in common: SUBLIMATE, AERODROME, FRIGATE and PARISHIONER?
What is the name of the phenomenon where a sound, for example, may evoke sensations of colour?
Larger in diameter than Mercury, Ganymede is a moon of which planet? In which country was female education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Malala Yousafzai born?
Who, on 23 November 1910, was hanged for the murder of his wife, a music hall singer who performed on stage as Belle Elmore?
GEOGRAPHY
In which country are the famous Waitomo Caves, known for being lit by glow-worms? Which river divides Manchester from Salford?
Which Asian federation was known until 1971 as the Trucial States?
’Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church.’ What, according to Erica Jong, does the USA get?
The capitals of the Seychelles and British Columbia, Africa’s largest lake and an Australian state all share which name?
The Northwest Passage is a route between the Atlantic and which other ocean?
TELEVISION
What’s the surname of the X Factor twins, John and Edward?
Which American soap opera that ran in the UK from 1982 to 1989 was set in Denver, Colarado?
In 1963, the critic Bernard Levin was assaulted by a member of the audience during a live broadcast of which television programme?
Which Derby-born actress played Amy Pearce in Duty Free, Barbara Liversidge in Barbara, and Peggy Armstong in Heartbeat? ’Am I bovvered?!’ became the catchphrase of which truculent schoolgirl, created by Catherine Tate?
Which fictional town is the setting for the detective series A Touch of Frost?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
From which of Shakespeare’s plays did
Tom Stoppard borrow the title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? What was the name of the freckled red-haired heroine in Astrid Lindgren’s classic children’s book series?
Edward Estlin were the forenames of which US poet who often dispensed entirely with the use of upper case letters in his writing? What links the authors of The Monk, a gothic novel of 1796, the historical romance Savrola and the 1844 political novel Coningsby?
Who is the author of Chocolat?
The title character of which 1897 novel first arrives in England at Whitby aboard the Russian ship, the Demeter?
FOOD AND DRINK
In the view of Samuel Johnson, which food ’should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar and then thrown out as good for nothing’?
The vegetable stew known as ratatouille has its origins in the south of which country? Which Oxfordshire market town lends its name to the flat oval currant-filled cake made in the area from the 16th century? From which fruit is the brandy Calvados distilled?
What did Mark Twain describe as ’nothing but a cabbage with a college education’? What name is given to a dish of scrambled eggs and anchovies served on toast?
Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror