Adrian Chiles has been voted the most gaffe-prone TV football pundit.

KEITH ANDREWS: Time to hold my hands up: I wrote a couple of months back that I felt Man United would turn things around and challenge for the title but I have been proven very wrong.

Nottingham Forest are prepared to smash their wage structure to lure Ireland striker Shane Long from the Premier League during next month’s transfer window.

It has been open season on Manchester United this campaign.

Ron Atkinson has warned David Moyes there is no such thing as a transitional period at Manchester United.

At least we settled one issue definitively yesterday: our grasping Commercial Department can now announce that the new Official Scapegoat Partner of MUFC is Tom Cleverley.

There is one simple reason why David Moyes should never have got the manager’s job at Manchester United.

Celebrity Big Brother' star Ron Atkinson has come under fire for making a racist joke.

Dublin Housewives star Danielle Meagher has entered the celebrity Big Brother House in the UK.

Celebrity Big Brother' bosses aim to get stars warring from the start with a shock triple twist in tonight's show launch.

It’s a fascinatingly old fashioned approach from a club which has embraced modernity like no other

Of the many tasks Alex Ferguson relished when taking the Manchester United job in 1986, addressing the chasm between the club and Ireland featured prominently.

The Premier League without Alex Ferguson: it will be like looking out your window one day to savour a familiar view and discovering a whole mountain has disappeared.

Born on New Year's Eve 1941, we chart Ferguson's rise from apprentice toolmaker to the world's greatest football manager.

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Once more, Ron Atkinson must ruefully ponder his terminal exile from football since the day racist nonsense tumbled out of his mouth in the privacy of a largely deserted gantry position in Monaco.

As Bart Simpson — and latterly thousands of football fans — have said, you can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half.

Yesterday’s result at White Hart Lane suggests there is more to come.

IT’S always a dangerous game to make predictions based on November’s performances.

THE morning after Ron Atkinson racially abused Marcel Desailly in front of a mic he thought was closed, I knew the 30,000 words I’d already written for a book on Ron would never be used.

Alex Ferguson is certain he is doing the right thing by introducing another batch of talented youngsters to his Manchester United first-team squad.

Alex McLeish has branded Alex Ferguson "The Godfather" of modern managers.

Alex Ferguson has described his 25 years at Manchester United as “a fairytale”.

SO here we are; another season over, another champion crowned, and another 31 teams licking their wounds.

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.

Aston Villa will today step up their bid to secure Alex McLeish as their new manager.

ASTON VILLA were last night holding further talks with managerial target Alex McLeish.

Aston Villa were tonight holding further talks with managerial target Alex McLeish.

Ryan Giggs has admitted he never expected Manchester United to overhaul Liverpool’s record of 18 league championships.

“A FEW years ago Ron Atkinson was shown the door for racist remarks and I think it is right that the sexist comments of Andy Gray have been treated in the same way by Sky."

AS Andy Gray often said himself; “It’s what I call one of those indefensible ones — you can’t defend against them.”

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Fulham’s Roy Hodgson was last night named as the manager of the year by the League Managers’ Association

Sean St Ledger is set to continue his rise from TV reality show bad boy to established international defender when the Republic of Ireland face Bulgaria in their pivotal World Cup qualifier on Saturday.

Alex Ferguson intends to consult the works of great psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to try and work out what lies behind the legend of ’Rafa’s rant’.

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'Countdown's replacement for Carol Vorderman is “drop-dead gorgeous” and will be a big hit, the show’s new host said today.

Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne was back with his family this afternoon two weeks after being sectioned.

JACK CHARLTON, the man who first led Ireland to a European Championship finals and two World Cup finals, believes Ron Atkinson should replace Steve Staunton as Republic of Ireland manager.

Rangers defender Ugo Ehiogu has revealed he wants to become a manager when his body tells him to stop playing.

In Scotland, Celtic win the league. Or else Rangers win it. Nobody cares anymore, says Liam Mackey.

They say 80% of all books are sold at Christmas, and God knows they’re a good fall-back for a present. With that in mind we asked Michael Moynihan to combine the sports-and-Santa hats when it comes to the pick of this year’s sports books.

I REMEMBER interviewing Paul McGrath after an international at Lansdowne Road. These were the days when players and journalists mingled at post-match receptions in the Wanderers pavilion and, if a hack didn’t push his luck, might get in a little exclusive one-on-one action with a boy in green.

ASTON VILLA manager David O’Leary has been warned to be “whiter than white” in the ongoing furore that surrounds the club.