BBC, Riverdeep, Dublin Tourism and the Revenue Commissioners are some of the companies which have been short listed for the 2005 Digital Media Awards.

An Ghaeltacht's Darragh Ó Sé was not cited for a red card offence in referee Tom McCarthy's match report ­ but a late tackle.

Alvaro Recoba returned with a vengeance from a year of torment and goes to the World Cup living up to his status as the world’s best-paid footballer.

Kanu is the man to drag Nigerian football away from the self-destruct button threatening to detonate their chances of success in this summer’s Far East football extravaganza.

There cannot be too many goalkeepers throughout the world capable of holding onto their international place after conceding five goals in one game - but Oliver Kahn managed to do just that.

Four years have passed since a wiry, awkward-looking Thierry Henry first impacted on the international scene, with Aime Jacquet unsure where, or whether, to include him in the France team.

Nothing can impact upon a footballer’s career quite like a sticking sobriquet. But imagine being branded ‘Glass Legs’, the moniker afforded Robert Prosinecki in his injury-ravaged Primera Liga days.

On June 7, when England face favourites Argentina in the biggest match of the World Cup’s group phase, you can bet your last yen that David Beckham’s reacquaintance with Diego Simeone will dominate the headlines.

Marc Wilmots is Belgium’s unlikely hero, a player unlikely to feature in the lists of those predicting potential World Cup stars but one who perhaps ought not be ignored.