Inspired by Bono, this column parks its customary sunny outlook to shout stop on various sporting annoyances.

It’s filling up, heaven’s homegrown dream team of faces and voices that gave many of us a sporting education.

There was some 'refreshing honesty' from David Moyes this week

What happened to our old obsessions with Ronaldo and Messi and Roy Keane?

The crypto world has set its sights on the people traditionally most easily parted from their money — football fans

When Jose Mourinho was dismantling United from the inside, there was a flood of concern out there that Elvis Presley was about to fade from consciousness as a cultural phenomenon.

There’s much to recommend this simple life, this means of stripping things down, of operating from game to game on a need-to-know basis.

The way things are going, to cater for shrinking attention spans, Arsene Wenger knows you’d ideally need a World Cup every six weeks or so — to be binge-watched in 72 hours if you wanted

Even when baring his soul, Paul Merson is entertainingly fluent in the language of football. The Merse’s new book, Hooked, is frank, sometimes funny, often horrifying.

A lot of the initial impetus, you have to say, seemed to be coming from Kerry direction