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This is not soccer but rugby aping global game’s gluttony
This is not soccer but rugby aping global game’s gluttony

If we’ve learned anything from Netflix TV series, sports podcasts and purveyors of fancy doughnuts, it’s that you can have too much of a good thing. What is at first new and exciting can soon become bewilderingly oversaturated, and soon you have no idea what’s good anymore, or indeed, what to listen to while you are queuing at the Krispy Kreme drive-thru, writes Tommy Martin.

Thu, 01 Nov, 2018

Jumping the fence to become Full Pundit
Jumping the fence to become Full Pundit

There is a point in the career of a retired footballer when they go Full Pundit.

Thu, 25 Oct, 2018

Ireland cycle of helplessness no laughing matter
Ireland cycle of helplessness no laughing matter

We are the rats, the Aviva Stadium is our lab, and we’re going to get our arses electrocuted no matter what happens, writes Tommy Martin

Thu, 18 Oct, 2018

The age-old question: Why do fellas like battering the heads off each other?
The age-old question: Why do fellas like battering the heads off each other?

At school, there was nothing quite like fight day, writes Tommy Martin.

Thu, 11 Oct, 2018

Does Sarriball have to win or is there a higher purpose?
Does Sarriball have to win or is there a higher purpose?

I get a lift to five-a-side football on a Monday night with two Italian guys called Francesco and Mariano.

Thu, 04 Oct, 2018

A day that reminded us we are all just passing through
A day that reminded us we are all just passing through

If it is possible for an event, which mainly consisted of middle-aged men in a state of wheezy exhaustion, to be considered spiritual, then Tuesday’s Liam Miller Tribute match certainly was that, writes Tommy Martin

Thu, 27 Sep, 2018

Should we break it to kids that football will always let them down?
Should we break it to kids that football will always let them down?
Capping a glittering list of career achievements, Paul Scholes made it onto Liveline this week.

Thu, 20 Sep, 2018

Beyond ideology, Roy Keane and Serena Williams are just human
Beyond ideology, Roy Keane and Serena Williams are just human

Williams has been adopted, willingly, as the battle queen of modern feminism, a shining emblem of the global movement towards equality and to right the wrongs dealt by millennia of patriarchy, writes Tommy Martin

Thu, 13 Sep, 2018

Is it time to conscript draft-dodging players into national service?
Is it time to conscript draft-dodging players into national service?

Avoiding compulsory military service has a long and honourable history — from cross-dressing Corporal Klinger in MASH to Donald Trump’s bone spurs — and the recent plight of Tottenham’s South Korean striker Son Heung-min showed that the art of draft-dodging remains highly relevant, writes Tommy Martin.

Thu, 06 Sep, 2018

To focus on Dublin’s privilege is to neglect what makes them special
To focus on Dublin’s privilege is to neglect what makes them special

Are the Dubs even bored of the Dubs?

Thu, 30 Aug, 2018

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