With soccer entering the business end of the season with the campaign’s first trophy handed out on Sunday Liam Mackey finds our readers still preoccupied with Champions League action and in particular that disturbing series of incidents at the Félix-Bollaert Stadium in Lens last Tuesday and the heavy-handed French police. There’s divided opinions, also, on whether quickly taken free kicks are within the spirit of the game, a warning that Liverpool shouldn’t count their chickens just yet, a view on the justice of the Shelbourne punishment, irritation over RTÉ's on going anti-Mourinho campaign, and the suggestion that Big Sam has magic powers.

With soccer entering the business end of the season with the campaign’s first trophy handed out on Sunday Liam Mackey finds our readers still preoccupied with Champions League action and in particular that disturbing series of incidents at the Félix-Bollaert Stadium in Lens last Tuesday and the heavy-handed French police. There’s divided opinions, also, on whether quickly taken free kicks are within the spirit of the game, a warning that Liverpool shouldn’t count their chickens just yet, a view on the justice of the Shelbourne punishment, irritation over RTÉ's on going anti-Mourinho campaign, and the suggestion that Big Sam has magic powers.