Maybe it is all pointless, this middle-aged trudge around city streets, grinding your joints into bonemeal and for what?

There's a broader feeling that Manchester United has finally copped itself on

What links Jurgen Klopp and the various loo-lahs wading onto a GAA field bent on dishing out rough justice?

In that moment the players were daft young lasses embarking on a celebratory bender, by the morning they were national figures burdened by responsibility.

Still, even by the standards of the contemporary news cycle, staging an event typically predicated on the weather being quite chilly in one of the world’s most notably toasty nations should raise an eyebrow.

What is missing? Is it simply experience, the nous to ride out the interstellar collisions that are a hazard of international football’s rarefied orbit?

Countless academic theses have been written on how crowds at sporting events engage in collective hysteria. Royal events may generate inexplicable outbreaks of emotion, but nothing compared to the average county final

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?