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To round out 2021, Gavan Casey and Emma Duffy of The42 join us to look back at some of the year’s best sportswriting. 

Here are their picks. 

Gavan 

• “Roy Keane: ‘I’m way down the pecking order in my own home. Even the dog tells me what to do’” by David Walsh for the Sunday Times 
• “'Once an Olympian, always an Olympian' - A farewell to a friend Jerry Kiernan” by Peter Collins for RTE 
• “After Covid-19 took his father, son fights to keep iconic dive bar in Times Square alive” by Kevin Armstrong for The Washington Post 
• “The unlikely story of how 'Dundee United' became an insult in Nigeria” by Liam Kirkaldy for Nutmeg Magazine 

Emma 

• “This guy has a pattern’: Amid institutional failure, former NWSL players accuse prominent coach of sexual coercion” by Meg Linehan for The Athletic 
• “The moral of this inspirational Meath story? Stick with it” by Mary Hannigan for The Irish Times 
• “We know Justin Fashanu died. Now let us hear how he lived” by Adam Crafton for The Athletic 
• “The Volunteer will always be King” by Conor Galvin
• “Once In A Lifetime, Da” by Philip O’Connor 

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