End to words, time for action

IT could have been Armageddon but instead it turned out to be a small earthquake in Chile, with not many dead.

Claud Cockburn's famously black definition of an underwhelming newspaper story came to mind in Limassol yesterday, as Brian Kerr faced the media for his first full press conference of a highly-charged week.

With the penultimate World Cup qualifier looming, football ought to have been highest item on the agenda but, after days of deteriorating relations between the press and the manager, it was going to take some time before we got into