In this era of remakes and reboots, writer-director J.J. Abrams is here to introduce a third option: the throwback.

Gaelic Players' Association CEO Dessie Farrell gave hia assessment of a year in which the players' body gained official recognition from the GAA, when he spoke at tonight's Opel GPA awards at the Citywest Hotel.

Harry Redknapp (pictured) will seek an urgent meeting with Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric tomorrow to try to discover whether his job as manager at Fratton Park is any more secure than that of South Coast rival Steve Wigley at Southampton.