It has been a rough couple of weeks with the pollen. It was the hay fever, we now know, that drove John Inverdale to his ‘sexist lapse’ at last year’s Wimbledon.

Miguel Delaney takes a look behind the scenes at Sky Sports News ahead of today’s transfer deadline

A FEW of us spent a most enjoyable and rewarding hour in the company of three Irish football heroes of yesteryear on Monday morning as Tony Cascarino, Frank Stapleton and Paul McGrath mixed some astute analysis of the Premier League and Trapattoni’s Ireland with a few entertaining detours down memory lane.

ARSENAL supporters won’t be the only ones having nightmares after the Gunners’ 8-2 humiliation against Manchester United at Old Trafford yesterday.