Record crowd a sign that many Irish fans now care more about the League of Ireland than the national team
Shamrock Rovers manager’s criticism of Heimir Hallgrímsson may have missed the point but his outburst will do the domestic game no harm
Ken Early: Fifa president Gianni Infantino has relentlessly sucked up to Trump since 2017
Infantino and Trump share one common enemy – the thing that used to be called the mainstream media
Erling Haaland’s arrogance comes back to bite him as Arsenal humiliate the Man City striker
While Mikel Arteta’s side hope to push on for the Premier League title, Manchester City look like they want the season to finish now
Ken Early: All VAR does is annoy everybody while delaying everything
Wrong refereeing decisions cannot be eliminated from football because most of the time wrongness is a matter of subjective perception
Ken Early: Denis Law one of the very best in the days when players were the only ones who mattered
Football now increasingly subject to the influence of forces that never appear on the pitch
Ken Early: If Mikel Arteta really loves Arsenal’s players, he should let them play
Gabriel Jesus’s injury and another unconvincing performance by Kai Havertz underlined how badly Arsenal need a new forward
Ruben Amorim’s anger in Liverpool augurs well for Manchester United
Sunday’s Premier League match at Anfield suggested there could be some sense to selling Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid
Ken Early: The pursuit of calm, running from risk and Euro nationalism mark a mixed year of football
Moments of magic being sapped from the game as managers opt to cut out risky business
Liverpool enjoy Spurs’ farcical nonsense
Ange Postecoglou needs to review his risk-and-reward calculation
Flash of inspiration from Amad casts Amorim’s dropping of Rashford and Garnacho as a masterstroke
United manager’s faith in Amad Diallo helps secure a memorable Manchester derby victory over struggling City
Ken Early on World Cup draw: Ireland face task to overcome Hungary, their football opposites
If Irish football has been subsisting on the poverty line, Hungarian football has had billions pumped into it
Ange Postecoglou seems more concerned with his own brand than with Tottenham’s results
Great managers such as Alex Ferguson and Jurgen Klopp understood the difference between rhetoric and reality
Arne Slot has gotten Liverpool excited by showing them they can get even better
Mohamed Salah talking about his contract shows he wants to stay at Anfield - but notice the silence from Trent Alexander-Arnold
Manchester United’s current crop will struggle to adjust to Amorim’s system
The new manager has a crystal-clear idea of how his side should play but he lacks the players to make that vision a reality
Ken Early: Naive Ireland need to remember this pain and at least learn to whinge
Ireland’s second-half capitulation against England again exposed this team’s fatal lack of gamecraft