Blackpool renew AWOL striker's contract

Player goes AWOL for six months, gets handed a new deal. Tangerine logic.

Went out for a friend's birthday, ended up in a burlesque show.

You couldn't make it up, really. My friend Steo Moran was celebrating his quarter-of-a-century birthday on Saturday night (not half-century, as his mother Carol mistakenly thought), so we went to the Sugar Club venue on Lower Leeson Street to see a show by The Burlesque & Cabaret Social Club.

For Extratime.ie: Yadolahi eager for return to action with Drogs

Neil Yadolahi may only be 21, but the Drogheda United defender has already played professional football in England, Scotland, Ireland, Turkey and Armenia – coming through a number of trying personal experiences one would normally associate with a player at the end of their career as opposed to one at the beginning.