It is rare for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to lack in confidence.

Conventional wisdom says that France has by far the weakest league of Europe’s Big Five, and looking at the Ligue 1 table, you can see why.

A groundbreaking week, in many ways, as we have Joey Barton to thank for defining, at long last, the morality of sport.

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for The Sound of Music has died. She was 99.

The last surviving member of the famous Trapp Family Singers made famous in The Sound Of Music died this week at her home in the US. Maria von Trapp was 99.

NORMALLY at this time of year I go out and start collecting.

IRELAND football manager Giovanni Trapattoni is set to fulfil a promise to the operators of the Cliffs of Moher visitor attraction when he visits the beauty spot this week.

One of the seven von Trapp children who inspired the film 'The Sound of Music' has died aged 97.

Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce believes the success of Giovanni Trapattoni and Fabio Capello may have influenced Manchester City’s decision to appoint Roberto Mancini as manager.

GILSEY, Eamo, Ronnie and even Billo himself wore the disconsolate looks of men who had been asked to manage — not merely analyse — that team.

STEVE COPPELL is not the only manager sporting a furrowed brow at Reading’s plunge towards the Championship.

The farmer who was killed by a bull in Co Longford last night has been named locally as 61-year-old Patrick Trapp, from Drumnacor in Ballymahon.