A touch alarmingly for the newborn Gaelic football championship, the sport’s news agenda has, so far, been hogged by two flamboyant old stagers who won’t kick a ball this summer.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not.

DEPRESSING news has reached me this week. The BBC are to hire comedian James Corden to provide an alternative – and no doubt ‘edgy’ – analysis after every England game in this summer’s World Cup.