WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

Spurs versus Swansea meant Andre Villas-Boas against Michael Laudrup, the two Premier League managers separated by the widest gap in terms of personal footballing pedigree.

FAI BOSS John Delaney remains to be convinced that FIFA President Sepp Blatter will follow through on his declaration that football’s world governing body will revisit the subject of goal-line technology in light of controversial incidents at the World Cup in South Africa.