Eamon Dunphy loved pre-season. Arriving back at the club to see the pitch with no goalposts and no lines drawn. A clean slate.

Trust the process. It’s part of the default lingo every gaffer in sport has their players recite.

Larry Ryan is taking an irreversible decision to walk out on the week’s sport.

As the traditional confusion around GAA discipline melts into outright bafflement, there was at least a welcome restatement of first principles by Down’s Caolan Mooney following last Sunday’s win over Armagh, writes Larry Ryan.

If ‘controvassy’ is the lifeblood of the Premier League, the GAA has long gorged on rumour and hearsay, writes Larry Ryan.

With the Champions League revenue stream secured, there was still business to take care of for Liverpool this week.

In Tipp there is a kind of learned instinct that there is a price to be paid for moments of great jubilation and that somebody will be around to collect any minute, writes Larry Ryan

The pace of change has thrown up several factors that suggest we will yet need a referendum on the Fan Exit Strategy, the Fexit, writes Larry Ryan.