Jose Mourinho has been appointed as Tottenham’s new manager following the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino.

Mauricio Pochettino has left Tottenham Hotspur.

Twitter has released its top trends in Ireland for the year.

Manchester United reached the last 32 of the Europa League in convincing fashion last night, a competition which is taking on increasing importance for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in what has been a this frustrating ly average campaign.

Spurs teenager Troy Parrott and Celtic's Lee O'Connor both make the move up from Stephen Kenny's U21 squad

‘I’m probably the wrong man to ask, I like a little dive myself.”

Aaron Connolly has been ruled out of the upcoming games against New Zealand and Denmark due to injury.

You can fully understand why Pep Guardiola and his backroom staff were raging. It did indeed look like Trent Alexander-Arnold handled the ball in the penalty area, and slow-motion replays hardly seemed to help Michael Oliver or VAR’s explanation that his arm was not in an unnatural position.

Aaron Connolly has emerged as Mick McCarthy’s sole injury concern for next Monday’s concluding Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark after picking up a groin injury.

Whisper it quietly, Manchester United supporters, but, perhaps, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has rediscovered the Midas touch that catapulted him to the permanent manager’s post, on a wave of free-flowing football and mass popularity, earlier this year.

Forget talk of controversial decisions, painful debates over VAR and ongoing confusion over the handball rule; the real headline news at Anfield yesterday was that Liverpool have the drive, momentum, and sheer emotional energy to end 30 years of hurt.

Head coach Unai Emery called for calm from his Arsenal bosses after this latest calamitous result and performance. But the club’s board surely have to act swiftly at the start of this international break and either back or sack the man they hired to replace Arsene Wenger in May last year.

“I don’t even know who the prime minister is any more. I haven’t got a clue,” said Gareth Bale last month, adding, hopefully with knowing self-parody: “I follow the golf, that’s about it. I can tell you who’s No 1 in the world.”

Doubts your columnist entertains.

Thursday's friendly against New Zealand comes just three days before a crucial Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark.

A window into the bright new future we want to give our children and our children’s children. A world free of confusion, controversy and injustice. A world that no longer relies on Martin Atkinson.

Who was your man-of-the-match?

They should have played a rousing version of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ as Arsenal beat Manchester United at the Emirates because that’s all it has taken for new manager Mikel Arteta to get supporters in north London eating out of his hands.

Mikel Arteta celebrated his first win as Arsenal boss as the Gunners outclassed Manchester United in a 2-0 victory at the Emirates Stadium.

Let’s face it, decades ain’t what they used to be. There was a time was when you knew where you stood with a decade. The sixties? Flower power and beards. The seventies? Sideburns and disco. The eighties? Everything was massive: shoulder pads, mobile phones, hair. You used to be able to tell a decade simply by looking at the trousers involved.