"One day it might indeed all end, but Eamo’s show will surely go on forever."

Still no word of Ray Houghton. Not even a stir out of his new Twitter account (@ray81988) since Brazil-Colombia on Friday evening.

Troubling times — a new international superstar and nobody’s sure what to call him.

RTÉ’S RATING WAR MASKS THE REAL ONE

The sights and sounds of World Cups.

At half-time, nobody had expected this contest to be so one-sided.

United have been looking for heroes in unfamiliar places lately.

I was dismayed by comments made by ITV commentator Clive Tyldesley during the Ireland vs England game, carried live on the station last Wednesday night.

On the radio, David Pleat reminded us why we had waited so long for neighbours to reconnect.

Winning Takes Care of Everything.

Put it down to guilty conscience.

1. Martin Keown’s poker face: “Del Bosque has played his hand here… it’s almost like a game of chess.”

BUM DEAL FOR SWEDES

What channel to watch? Who has hired the bluffers and who has the gems? Des O’Driscoll tunes television viewers into Euro 2012

Flushed by cup fever last weekend — or perhaps slightly nauseous watching JT and Lamps plot their tag-team silverware hoist — I indulged heavily in ESPN’s gluttonous reprise of cup finals past.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

IT’S THE END of the world as we know it.

Football pundit Ron Atkinson was “devastated” today after resigning from ITV Sport for making a racist comment about a black Chelsea player.

FOOTBALL pundit Ron Atkinson has resigned from ITV Sport after making racist comments off-air following Tuesday night's Champions League game between Chelsea and Monaco, a spokesman for the channel said last night.