The past year produced another crop of bizarre, eye-watering injuries for sport stars. And not all of them happened during the action.

The FAI were making no comment yesterday on Sepp Blatter’s suggestion that the UK and Ireland could jointly host the 2030 World Cup.

Marcus Rashford is set to boost England’s World Cup preparations by returning to training today.

England’s players have been warned about the “truly devastating consequences” of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) given its prevalence in the area around their World Cup base.