Person: Johnny Foreigner

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Larry Ryan: Business as usual as Arsenal serve up the Premier League's secret sauce

It is incalculable, at this stage, how much we are all indebted to the Arsenal.

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Everyone’s doing it so why is there still a taboo about diving?

columnists

Another box ticked en route to Cork double

Football rule changes will take the game backwards not forward

Sing it loud: You’re gonna beat the Irish

Forget diving - creating a foul is now the finest in modern English craft

No strength or stability on show at insular Hampden

Our man inside the game wasn’t impressed with Gareth Southgate’s attempts to play political football after a poor England showing.

Mon, 12 Jun, 2017

Standing up for sport’s fall guys

The search for answers in the wake of last Saturday’s high drama has been exhaustive. Yet one likely cause has been overlooked.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2015

Billo was simply the best

Billo was a man who truly made himself at home on telly, and invited us all in.

Sat, 30 May, 2015

A nation in denial has little support

Having rocked them in the Dáil, as the Sawdoctors had it, Michael D certainly rocked them in the Guildhall, and beyond, when he announced during his visit to London that he would be supporting England at this summer’s World Cup in Brazil.

Sat, 19 Apr, 2014

Will Enda board the emigrant ship buoyed by fat EU salary?

AND they said irony was dead? After casually waving goodbye to 10 economic emigrants an hour, Enda Kenny’s great reward may be a job overseas for himself.

Sat, 08 Mar, 2014

Little tolerance here for racial intolerance

BE GRATEFUL for small mercies.

Sat, 30 Mar, 2013

We can all play the blame game till kingdom come

WE don’t credit the Brits with ‘giving’ us our country; or, at least, giving us the idea of it.

Wed, 24 Oct, 2012

England learn hard way

England may find themselves in the semi-finals of Euro 2012 tomorrow night or they may be boarding a plane back to London; but whatever the result against Italy in Kiev it appears Roy Hodgson’s side may finally have learned the lesson the world has been waiting for them to grasp for so long; the art of humility.

Sat, 23 Jun, 2012

When seeing is disbelieving

Let’s say Swiss television ran a version of ‘The Voice’ and decided to call it ‘The Yodel’, then rest assured, Gary Neville would be one of those poor divils who only features in the end of season compilation of embarrassing audition outtakes, included just to give everybody a cheap laugh.

Sat, 28 Apr, 2012

Cards on the table

THERE should be plenty reasons to keep our eyes glued to the pitch when Manchester City face Spurs tomorrow, not least because here are two classy sides who, on a good day, are well capable of paying more than lip service to the idea of football as the beautiful game.

Sat, 21 Jan, 2012