If these tournaments are life markers, what will this one signify? 

Is the GAA handling disciplinary matters like prestige drama showrunners deciding which characters to kill off at the end of every season?

Mikel Arteta speaks to a highly contemporary managerial sense of the exact point where data meets feeling.

As someone who has been watching Scottish football for 40 years, I’ve noticed that people love telling you that they don’t watch Scottish football.

Leading domestic footballers have registered their opposition to Ireland's scheduled game against Israel - while our internationals have yet remained silent. 

Conor Laverty’s openness after Down's victory over Donegal tells us a lot about how we should view the form and fortunes of this year’s All-Ireland contenders.

Here we were thinking the whole point of having the Ryder Cup in Ireland was to fleece the Yanks but when the scorpion tail of the free-market stings us in return, we don’t like it so much

News that the Saudis have had a mad notion that they want to start generating a return from their investments has caused ructions in the wider world of sport.

And yet, even as the Premier League’s dominance of the UEFA coefficient was continuing, the sense was of the actual pinnacle of European club football being elsewhere.

He hasn't won much but how could you say that his career was a failure?