Certain music and entertainment can bring us back to a time and a place. Among people who might be gone. Sport probably does that even better. 

On Friday morning Roy Keane was back in Cork telling a few home truths on how teams are built.  

What special ingredient does the Blue and Gold bring to summer? The misguided will tell you arrogance. The truth is optimism.

What can we do to give 11-year-olds looking out the window at the rain peace of mind?

Is there anyone - players, supporters etc. - truely happy with the sport they play or follow?

We have our own director of football now too, of course. Ireland managers typically need all the help they can get with logistics. And God knows we need galvanising. There is plenty for Marc Canham to do. 

If we rule out, for now, the possibility that she has fixed the Super Bowl so Biden can win the election — though we should check in with Joey Barton to be sure — the interest Taylor has taken in the Gridiron can only be regarded as a good thing, surely.

The Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker will take place in March and comes with all the usual trumpeting, such as a prize pool of a million dollars.

Managers constantly look out for a ‘proven’ goalscorer, grown elsewhere, unable to trust themselves to guide one of their own in this mysterious trade.

But are the Liverpool cables the most electrified? Is there an Anfield Factor?