The Dutch side have won only two of their last 12 matches in all competitions following Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Feyenoord.

Inter crashed out of the Champions League as they suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Barcelona last night.

It is the Barcelona players sixth time winning the award.

If José Mourinho did not appreciate the true meaning of the word Spursy before taking over, he surely does now after a topsy-turvy first home game in charge.

Back in 1904, Arnold Peter Møller and his father founded what would later become Denmark’s biggest company and the largest container ship and supply vessel operator in the world.

Lampard’s Chelsea face Ajax at Stamford Bridge tonight, knowing a repeat of their victory in Amsterdam two weeks ago should put them within touching distance of the Champions League knockout stages.

Ahead of the 2019/20 La Liga season — which kicks off tonight — Dermot Corrigan looks at the key storylines to follow in the months ahead

Dundalk head coach Vinny Perth has called on his side to be brave as they bid to turn things around against Slovan Bratislava in Tallaght Stadium tonight.

Tottenham appear to have done good business this summer as Mauricio Pochettino completed the signings of Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon to go along with Tanguy Ndombele, prompting comparisons with three of the most dramatic transfer days in the club’s history — but they have not all ended well.

James Rogers Dundalk head coach Vinny Perth believes it will be important to score when his side face Slovan Bratislava tonight.

The Ireland manager is considering Birmingham City’s new recruit for inclusion in his squad for the upcoming Euro 2020 qualifier against Switzerland.

Manchester United may have finished only sixth in the table last season but they comfortably retained their position as the leading developers of Premier League talent.

Former Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has joined Japanese club Vissel Kobe.

The draw has been made for the next stages of the Champions League qualifiers.

Birmingham have signed midfielder Dan Crowley from Willem II for an undisclosed fee.

There is literal and metaphorical blindness in King Lear. Sight and vision are linked to good judgment and when Lear disowns Cordelia his loyal aide Kent urges him to

Highly-rated Ajax duo Matthijs De Ligt and Donny Van De Beek are keeping their options open amid transfer interest from some of Europe’s biggest clubs.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has admitted asking ex-Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney for tickets to a crunch Europa League soccer final — despite insisting he paid for the seats himself.

A “lesson in efficiency”, is how Hugo Lloris described Liverpool’s win over Tottenham in Madrid, and while the Frenchman cannot be sure if he will play in another Champions League final, he maintains Spurs are learning all the time.

There are two distinct types of difficult games to watch, depending on your preference.

There was a cursory meeting of Arsenal and Tottenham supporters at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday morning, one side beating a retreat from Baku, the other en route to the Champions League final in Madrid.

“It is a proper European final,” said Jurgen Klopp this week. “It is not a third game against Tottenham. It is a proper European final.”

There’s been much talk of history, inevitably. Even a club with a fine tradition Tottenham can’t come close.

Vivid as it still is, that extraordinary semi-final night in Amsterdam now seems so long ago.

The mixed zone after a big match can be a brutal place.

In the interests of generating nuggets of shareable online content, as is the modern parlance, the Virgin Media Sport Twitter feed regularly puts out little chunks of video — goals, bizarre incidents, dollops of punditry, etc.

Here’s a quote from Monday’s Irish Examiner: “There’s a mental scrapbook of past experiences that may half-convince some to fantasise, but realism will strike tomorrow whether you want it to or not.”

A modest proposal: Uefa should now do the decent thing and cancel this year’s Champions League final.

And so we begin the second golden age of the Premier League. Only this time, resistance may be futile.

Oh what a night.

Tottenham will play Liverpool in the Champions League final after a 3-2 semi-final second-leg win over Ajax gave Spurs an aggregate victory on away goals.

The one word uppermost in the minds of all Barcelona players, fans and pundits throughout this season was ‘Roma’.

Mauricio Pochettino has suggested he may look for a new challenge if he can lead Tottenham to Champions League glory.

Mauricio Pochettino says Tottenham are at a crossroads and believes it will be impossible to continue overachieving in the manner they have.

PlayStations, personal stereos, third-level education and traffic — John Giles’ big four inhibitors of sporting talent.

The first day of May; the first day people really begin to dream of what their county can achieve in the months ahead.

Whatever happens in the remainder of this tournament, and whether or not they lift the trophy, you suspect there will be echoes of Ajax’s class of 2019 reverberating around European football for many years to come.

Their technique and composure whilst in possession was of the highest order but Ajax’s ability to press their opponents without the ball was even better.

This has been a decent season for Lionel Andres Messi.

The word legend is overused in football. Even the most heroic of players should remain heroes during their lifetimes, becoming legends only when they are gone.

Easter Sunday, upstairs in Cashman’s Bar, Academy Street, Cork. Liverpool are one up against Cardiff and on their way back to the top of the Premier League.

Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street is 850m metres long.

It would be remarkable if a club that has been lambasted and mocked for failing to win a single trophy since the League Cup in 2008 began their collection with the biggest one of all.

Football — bloody hell, as a Manchester manager once said after a Champions League match of the highest drama.