League of Ireland blackout a relic of days past

The @SSEAirtricityLg account didn’t even run a list of full-time scores during Cork City’s game against St Patrick’s Athletic on Saturday, writes Brendan O’Brien

It’ll be 30 years this summer since the great awakening that was Euro ’88 and, no doubt, the newspapers, the internet and our friends in broadcasting are already thinking about various ways and means to flood the public consciousness with retellings of events in Stuttgart, Hanover, and Gelsenkirchen.

It’s hard to know what else there is to say about it by now, but, rest assured, there will be a slew of new angles and perspectives on it all. The study of history in general has changed. Scholars are more interested in the stories of ordinary folk than the great captains and chieftains of ancient times. Maybe, that will be reflected here come June.