The best World Cup final ever? Absolutely. But the best World Cup match ever? 

In the first few days of a World Cup everything is fresh and exciting. Even vaguely familiar names, half-forgotten or half-remembered, come in new clothing

The temperature in the Al Bayt is 23 degrees, George Hamilton informs us. Damn it anyway. I’d been waiting all week to crack a gag about a rainy night in Doha.

Here’s the surprise. Argentina and the Saudis proves to be quite the ride. A once in a lifetime affair, you might say…

A new Channel 4 documentary revisits the summer when football changed forever. 

Of all the seasons where the world’s most prominent Arsenal fan could have shuffled off the mortal coil the queen chose this one, simultaneously the longest and the most cramped

Limerick’s campaign will eventually become a module on further-education courses. It was a triumph of strategy, tactics, planning, logistics, the works. After a 2021 championship of four outings they had to gear themselves for a 2022 championship of seven outings.

No frigid December afternoon in an empty, sterile house, this, nor even a half-full Croke Park in August. Here instead was the day John Kiely’s Limerick were created, moulded, honed and Kinnerked for.

Limerick saw off a seasonal-high performance from Clare and a seasonal-high performance from Galway whereas Kilkenny beat an awful Galway and an awfuler Clare. Patently a far stronger line of form

If Shefflin didn’t already know what he was letting himself in for he does now. We’re not in Ballyhale, any more, Toto.