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Larry Ryan

Larry Ryan: Liverpool are better built for a world after perfection

Maybe Liverpool’s boffins are just better than the boffins who calculate expected goals — who wait until the ball arrives at the feet of Mo Salah 10 yards out before crunching their numbers

Sat, 12 Sep, 2020

Larry Ryan: Corkness restored en route to the little All-Ireland

They are still queuing up, the lads who like to get things off their chests, to tell us why the All-Ireland championships shouldn’t be played this year. Just as many are ready to insist that they must be played, for the morale of the nation.

Sat, 05 Sep, 2020

Larry Ryan: Is it the last bantz for Sky Soccer Saturday?

On Wednesday, Jeff Stelling lamented 'one of my saddest days ever at Sky Sports with the departure of three of my best mates'.

Sat, 29 Aug, 2020

Larry Ryan: Trouble ahead in dangerous areas but at least Richie Sadlier talks a good game

We have had to wait for this weekend’s women’s Champions League quarter-finals for Irish interest at the top top level of the game. Yet there was enough to concern us in the men’s action too. Some of the old food for thought.

Sat, 22 Aug, 2020

Larry Ryan: Snooker's longest frame ends the eternal dance of mechanics and psychology

The snooker ranks high among the victims of the 21st century’s quickened pace

Sat, 15 Aug, 2020

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Larry Ryan: Football's last romance, falling in love with the right billionaire

Larry Ryan attempts to find some consolation for the heartbroken Forest faithful

Sun, 26 Jul, 2020

Larry Ryan: In Kieran O'Connor's life and death, we keep coming back to the power of community

“He was a tight corner-back and a good man. ” Aghada chairman Jimmy O’Leary had pitched it simply, his personal tribute to Kieran O’Connor. The plain intimacy of friendship and community. An epitaph that will survive us all.

Fri, 17 Jul, 2020

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Larry Ryan: Embarking on a new life beyond VAR with a golden mile

If anything could heighten a sense of foreboding in these weird times, it was going to be VAR. It sucks you right back into a way of life you thought maybe, just maybe, could be left behind.

Fri, 10 Jul, 2020

The morality of Manchester’s family fortunes

It’s the ultimate battle of philosophies in Manchester tomorrow. A classic clash of styles as the family pulling every stroke to pump as much money as possible into their club faces the family working every trick in the book to take it out.

Sat, 10 Nov, 2018

Can El Maestro Unai Emery wake up sleeping Arsenal?

Unai Emery has set a mean stall out. On Arsenal’s pre-season tour of Singapore, the team coach drove by the hotel from the airport and straight to the training ground. A signal of intent to his new players, perhaps, and certainly an instant contribution to the ‘narrative’.

Sat, 03 Nov, 2018