The plan was to build a club, not just a team. Develop players in a proper academy that looked after education as well. Engage with the local community, develop facilities, full-time football

The Blues' new ownership has signalled calm and continuity through the comforting swish of the guillotine’s blade.

If they were to slip on the tightrope now, would the fall be fatal?

If we heard refs' conversations all the time, it would cut off some oxygen for the more unhinged accusations of bias.

Whatever is driving Ronaldo now, at 37, with all he has achieved, all the worlds he has conquered, all the goals and trophies and medals and adulation, whatever it could be, he probably won’t find the answer at Old Trafford or at some other shiny stadium either, Champions League or not.

The decision to axe the reading of the scores at 5pm on Saturdays on BBC radio has provoked a very British furore.

The real driver of the Premier League's success was in hitching its wagon to the wider trends of globalisation and neoliberalism

For the discerning Gael, his attempt to transfer is a philosophical dummy solo.

Those on the GAA media beat have bemoaned this season as the worst yet for access to players during the championship.

For Sean O’Shea’s moment of square-jawed heroism NOT to be the prelude to Kerry’s ultimate deliverance just doesn’t seem to make any narrative sense. It would be stupidly anti-climactic.