Jim McGuinness is a bitter man and he would tell you as much himself.

RTÉ pundit Kevin McStay carries his anti-northern baggage much more lightly than some of his other colleagues on The Sunday Game.

Can Tyrone improvise? Can Tyrone’s footballers think for themselves or do they still need Mickey Harte to do that for them?

Match programmes also need to change. The neat diagrams displaying teams in a 6-2-6 formation belong with the bishops throwing in the ball

They say Eskimos have 14 different words for ‘snow’.

Call me superstitious, but I’d be reluctant to launch anything at a place with Titanic in its name.

The journalist Adharanand Finn was shocked at the conditions he discovered when he entered the training camp of one of the most successful distance runners in the world.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So, while on holiday in Madrid a few years ago, I did as the Madrilenos do and spent a night in the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas watching bulls getting slowly but surely stabbed to death.

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

Watching Americans watching golf can be an unsettling and sobering experience.