In a Premier League awash with money, Manchester City v Leicester is probably as close to a riches v rags contest as we’ll get.

This very weekend back in 1999, Glenn Hoddle was a dead man walking as manager of England, an ironically appropriate condition for him to find himself in, since it was a newspaper interview in which he had amplified his belief in reincarnation which had put him on the front as well as the back pages and brought him, as an international gaffer, to an authentic point of no return.

There is never a good reason not to watch a football match, writes Liam Mackey

For Dalymount Park, the fervent hope must be that we can soon be calling it the once and future home of Irish football.

Compliments to the season: the Premier League’s relationship to anything at all resembling ‘the greatest league in the world’ might exist primarily in the minds of the television brand masters but, credit where it’s due, the 2015/16 model is the gift that just keeps on giving.