All too much for RTÉ

Alan Hansen doesn’t do live TV anymore. After 22 years, he finished up as BBC’s Match of the Day anchor pundit in 2014. Commanding he was, but not without sin, Manchester United coming back to haunt him following his infamous “kids” remark in 1995.

“Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong,” he remarked.

Ger Loughnane, privately anyway, might testify to the same after Sunday’s half-time comment that Tipperary, nine points down, were finished: