John Caulfield calls for live TV soccer on Thursday nights

MC Con Murphy was drawing a panel discussion to a close at the end of the SSE Airtricity League 2018 launch at the Aviva Stadium yesterday when one of his guests politely asked if he could make one additional point.

John Caulfield, who’d seen his Cork City side come back from two down to beat Dundalk 4-2 in a cracking President’s Cup curtain-raiser at the weekend, had something he wanted to get off his chest.

“There was eight minutes of sport on the Nine O’Clock (RTÉ) news last Sunday,” he began.