A Selection Of The Best Sporting Memes Of 2018

With 2018 slowly rumbling to a close, we take a look over the best sporting memes of the year, with Ballybrack FC, Martin O'Neill and England supporters among the standout performers.

The best sporting memes of 2018

Chelsea's desperate search for a striker

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Exclusive! We've found Chelsea's transfer target list. #cfc #Chelsea #TransferNews

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Jonny Sexton's drop goal to the Titanic soundtrack

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Johnny Sexton dropgoal with the Titanic soundtrack!

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A great Peter Crouch meme

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One of the all-time great tweets.

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Solid Beast from the East content

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No GAA today but Galway have a team good to go and raring for the conditions #stormemma

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Duffer and Keane

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#coybig

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Kit Mix up

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?

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Thanos is a Stoke fan

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??☄️

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Tagline of the year

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It's all about the tagline...

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Tiocfaidh Ar La - Iran

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Up the

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Sexy Senegal manager makes sexy reaction gif

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A great reaction gif was born today.

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Gobshite of the World Cup #1

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Moment of the World Cup so far ?

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Dunphyland

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In DunphyLand, nothing is at it seems ?

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Jaysis Christ

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Q. Who's your favourite Brazilian footballer A. Gabriel JAYSUS (vid via Stephen Harrington)

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Star of the World Cup

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The main reason I want Argentina to stay in the World Cup...

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Gobshite of the World Cup #2

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Michy Batshuayi you tit! ?

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In fairness it was a cracker

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Conversations we'll all be having with our kids

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The eternal struggle

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When the lads are late for pints. #GAA #Hurling #Galway

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It was a bit of an earworm

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We're sorry. We couldn't resist. #ItsComingHome #WorldCup

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Ivan Perisic you beauty

England fans when Perisic scored:

#ENGCRO pic.twitter.com/PXEYAEF5Np

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) July 11, 2018

England fans on the plane home

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To everyone who was butthurt over the first video, this one's for you.

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Pogba ft. Paul O'Connell

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English translation of Paul Pogba's dressing room speech. ?Sound on? Link to what he actually said in our bio. ??

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The joys of being your club's social media guru

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Classic? #GAA

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A brief summation of the coinage incident

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Scenes at Lansdowne Road Dart station #coinage #nonetooplussed

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Anyone got a helmet?

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The lads in Ballypickas GAA are good and ready for their Junior C championship match against Rosenallis tonight! #gaa

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One of the weirder endorsements of 2018

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Phil Mickelson can cut some rug.

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The disappearing act

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One of those days

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Umpire state of mind

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"Are you sure that was wide Colm?" "As a gate, Tadhg." #GAA

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Wishful thinking

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Forget Croke Park, today's biggest battle will be on the tracks out of Dublin. #GAA

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Pep Gardaiola

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Pep Gardaíola. I'm sorry.

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Hopefully the case!

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Hopefully they're right! ?

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It's important to win the toss

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You're screwed if you lose the toss at Clonbur football pitch today. Thanks to Cathal De Búrca for sending the picture our way. #GAA

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A once in a lifetime opportunity

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He saw his chance and went for it ?

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Premier Dad joke

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Marty with a top, top, top dad joke.

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The undoubted Tweet of the year

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"Not even mutant." This wins Twitter.

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Things got grim towards the end there

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Worth a try.

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Tweet of the year contender

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?

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True love

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Find someone who looks at you the way this man looks at his pint??? Credit: @ carys_evs Twitter.

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How can you not love the GAA?

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Take shelter ???

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Dad of the year!

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Hahahahaha!! Dad of the year right there #toughlove

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Cillian Sheridan is realistic about his international future

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Give it Cillian's Da til the end of the season!

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Ballybrack b*nter was through the roof a few weeks ago

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??

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Brogan and Murchan selfie

Cute photo of Bernard Brogan and Eoin Murchan after the match today pic.twitter.com/CcaXhrpG2t

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) September 2, 2018

What did he say?!

"I'm Keyser Soze" pic.twitter.com/cBwrGQlJdK

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) September 6, 2018

Learn from your mistakes...

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— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) December 5, 2018

The must listen to podcast of 2018

Forget Serial and West Cork… https://t.co/Ymmo2N0gCz's documentary on the Ballybrack FC saga is the must-listen to podcast series of 2018 #BallybrackFC (Sound On ?) pic.twitter.com/AfbvMq9CcH

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) November 29, 2018

Bravo!