Last year when Kerry played a Super 8s match in Croke Park, it didn’t exactly fare well in the TV channel-hopping stakes.

Paddy McNair’s first international goal saw Northern Ireland snatch a 1-0 win over Belarus and make it four wins out of four in Euro 2020 qualifying.

Brazilian legend Pele has been admitted to hospital in Paris.

World champions France easily beat Iceland to register their second victory in two Euro 2020 qualifying matches.

Paris St Germain's appeal against UEFA's decision to reopen an investigation into the Ligue 1 club's finances has been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thought he had written the biggest moment in Manchester United’s European history when he scored the winning goal in the 1999 final, Marcus Rashford wrote one that may prove to be every bit as significant in the 93rd minute of an astonishing last 16 tie in Paris last night.

Paris St Germain head coach Thomas Tuchel is wary of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s qualities and Manchester United’s never-say-die attitude ahead of tonight’s Champions League clash.

Tonight’s match at Anfield is round two in a three-way Champions League clash that should tell us a lot about the relative strengths of English and German football, or at least the Premier League and the Bundesliga.

A post-mortem examination has confirmed Emiliano Sala died from head injuries.

Real Madrid and Croatia star Luka Modric has claimed the 2018 Ballon d'Or at a ceremony in Paris.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists last season’s devastating Champions League final defeat did the club no harm at all, writes Carl Markham

Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic French fans celebrated the return of their World Cup winning football team yesterday, jumping and chanting “We are the champions” as their bus paraded down the Champs Elysees before a special presidential reception.

Make sense of it all? Maybe there was no sense to be found in it at all.

Football – zut alors!

Belgium’s World Cup squad were welcomed as heroes in Brussels yesterday, after achieving their best-ever World Cup result in Russia, and were rewarded with the country’s national dish: A bowl of chips.

France have won the World Cup after beating Croatia 4-2 in the final in Moscow.

My first World Cup memories go back to 1966 when I would have been 10 and at a stage in my childhood where I was really becoming obsessed with football.

And then there was one. Well, two actually, but the World Cup third-place play-off is definitely one of those nominally competitive fixtures which presents a fairly robust challenge to my old friend Declan Lynch’s wise maxim that there’s never a good reason not to watch a football match.

France took the lead six minutes into the second half when Samuel Umtiti got to Antoine Griezmann's corner ahead of Marouane Fellaini and saw his header clip the Belgium midfielder on its way into the net.

Anyone who follows sport on television understands the commentators’ curse.

A scintillating goal from Neymar drew him level with Romario in Brazil’s all-time top scorers list as they cruised to a 3-0 win against Austria yesterday.

France 2 Rep Ireland 0

Paris St Germain’s Dani Alves wants to “send a message to Europe” by ending Real Madrid’s Champions League defence.

Not quite yet, says Chris Hatherall.

Real Madrid 3 PSG 1

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane looked supremely relaxed as he smiled his way through yesterday’s press conference ahead of tonight’s Champions League last-16 first leg at home to Paris Saint Germain.

Barcelona vice-president Jordi Mestre claims they signed Philippe Coutinho at a reduced cost despite his £142m (€161m) transfer fee being the second-most expensive in history.

Ryan Giggs says he advised Manchester United to sign Gabriel Jesus and Kylian Mbappe before the pair rose to prominence.

More people are becoming homeless because of family breakdowns, than those being forced out by landlords.

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Celtic have been hit with a 12th UEFA fine in the space of six years with the total bill up to about £170,000.

Tottenham striker Harry Kane has been named on a 30-man shortlist to win the 2017 Ballon d'Or.

Neymar has demanded UEFA expel Barcelona from the Champions League in a dispute over a bonus payment.

Paris St Germain pair Neymar and Edison Cavani put their differences aside to inspire an emphatic 3-0 win over Bayern Munich in Champions League Group B.

Daniel Storey shares the weekend’s storylines...

UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Celtic following the pitch invasion by a fan during the Champions League tie against Paris St Germain at Parkhead.

Brendan Rodgers expressed his disappointment after a fan came out from the stands to confront Paris St Germain's Kylian Mbappe during the French side's 5-0 Champions League win at Parkhead on Tuesday night.

In 2011, when Qatar Sports Investments acquired Paris Saint-Germain, they established a five-year plan to become a major European footballing powerhouse that involved competing at the business end of Europe’s premier club competition.

Celtic 0 PSG 5: Free-spending Paris St Germain demonstrated their prowess with a 5-0 thumping of Celtic in their Champions League opener at Parkhead.

Boss Brendan Rodgers believes Celtic are better placed this season to make progress in Europe despite their daunting Champions League group.

Paris St Germain’s record spending spree in the transfer window, bringing in Neymar for €222m and Kylian Mbappe for a projected €180m, has led many to suggest all the pressure is on them to provide value for money by winning the Champions League this season.

Belgium qualified for next year's World Cup by beating Greece but France were pegged back by a humiliating goalless draw at home to Luxembourg.

UEFA has announced it has opened a Financial Fair Play investigation into Paris St Germain.

New Celtic striker Odsonne Edouard insists he will not hesitate if he has to gun down Paris St Germain in the Champions League.