Ken Early: Emerging generation banish old fatalismIreland has a new team now, a very different one from that broken in Gdansk and PoznanSat Oct 10 2015 - 17:03
Ken Early: Mourinho may already have lost the Chelsea dressing roomSenior squad figures concerned at manager’s public criticism of players’ shortcomingsMon Oct 05 2015 - 08:36
Ken Early: Brendan Rodgers, rocket science and frictionRodgers at times looks unsure of what sort of Liverpool team he wants to buildMon Sept 28 2015 - 08:00
Ken Early: Japan turns the Rugby World Cup on its headMichael Leitch’s courageous decision to go for winning try turns world on its headSun Sept 20 2015 - 22:29
Ken Early: Sterile Old Trafford clash badly missed a Gerrard or a KeaneNew elite coaching doing very little for the global appeal of Premier League brandMon Sept 14 2015 - 14:01
Ken Early: Hard to see Robbie Keane starting another big gameMartin O’Neill’s decision to bring on Shane Long for second half changed game in Ireland’s favourTue Sept 08 2015 - 16:30
Ken Early: Robbie Keane thriving as a big fish in a small pondSkipper plays better surrounded by bad players, so he revels in MLS while Pirlo flopsMon Sept 07 2015 - 10:08
Ken Early: Big money in football may not last foreverThe costlier football becomes the greater the chance people will just turn offMon Aug 31 2015 - 08:35
Ken Early: money not doing talking for Manchester UnitedWorld football's most valuable brand are failing to act like it in the transfer marketMon Aug 24 2015 - 08:30
Ken Early: Ruthless Mourinho makes Terry pay for mistakeManager ensured nobody forgot captain was chiefly responsible for early defensive scareMon Aug 17 2015 - 09:14
Ken Early: Big clubs no place for young talent'It’s not surprising that Mourinho is more famous for winning titles than for developing young players'Mon Aug 10 2015 - 08:30
Ken Early: Mourinho’s tune may change quicklyChelsea’s only moves in the transfer market this summer have essentially been swapsMon Aug 03 2015 - 08:30
Ireland need a hero to take us through to RussiaKen Early says the World Cup draw is too good to be true but Ireland need leaders to progressMon Jul 27 2015 - 08:00
Delaney’s big vision for the FAI seems to focus on the localEmphasis runs counter to the uniform philosophy espoused by performance director Ruud DokterMon Jul 20 2015 - 08:25
Conor McGregor: Toughest test yet for the would be kingWith his win against Chad Mendes, McGregor can no longer be dismissed as just a ‘rabbit-killer’Sun Jul 12 2015 - 22:08
McGregor’s winning streak continues as he defeats MendesFeatherweight initially appeared to struggle but sensationally recoveredSun Jul 12 2015 - 17:09
McGregor may be idol of new Ireland but real work remainsShrinking majority not won over by fighter still asking questions about sport’s credibilityFri Jul 10 2015 - 23:20
Ken Early: Ireland are a poor side, and we're getting worseScotland stalemate leaves no room for anger just a stagnant sense of resignationMon Jun 15 2015 - 08:57
Ken Early: Hoolahan key factor in defining gameCombative Scots will not be pushed around, so guile will be needed to propel campaignSat Jun 13 2015 - 06:00
Barcelona have become everything Florentino Pérez dreamed aboutJuventus avoided humiliation but they couldn’t capitalise when Catalans wobbledMon Jun 08 2015 - 08:30
Magnificent Messi proving why he remains the world’s bestRonaldo was voted player of the year in 2014 but Argentine has respondedSat Jun 06 2015 - 08:47
Juventus midfield aiming to barricade Barcelona’s road to perfectionMessi, Xavi and Iniesta aiming for fourth European Cup in 10 yearsSat Jun 06 2015 - 08:47
Peculiarly ‘Irish’ arrangement backfires spectacularly on John DelaneyFAI chief executive seemed unaware his deal with Fifa would shock the footballing worldSat Jun 06 2015 - 06:55
Ken Early: Blatter failed to steer the ship of Fifa’s reformFifa chief strong on vague rhetoric, but always more angry about critical press reportsTue Jun 02 2015 - 23:30
US won’t be quick to forget Fifa and Sepp Blatter’s problemsJack Warner comes out fighting by saying investigations stem from failed World Cup bidMon Jun 01 2015 - 16:11
Ken Early: Blatter still the wiliest mountain goat of them allFAI chief John Delaney and Uefa may one day work out the secret of the Fifa president's successSat May 30 2015 - 09:00
Ken Early: Only Henry’s belief can keep fading star Rodgers in Liverpool jobIf he’s winning, he’s singing but if he’s losing, Rodgers lapses into defeatismMon May 25 2015 - 08:47
No place for Steven Gerrard in the age of analyticsFootball supporters will remember his career in a series of shimmering imagesMon May 18 2015 - 11:37
Ken Early: Laughing Germans may spell the end for GuardiolaBarcelona defeat puts pressure on manager set up to struggle by Henyckes’s trebleMon May 11 2015 - 05:00
Ken Early: John Carver caught in Newcastle nightmareNewcastle have always been in business of selling dreams but nobody told Mike AshleyMon May 04 2015 - 11:29
Chelsea aren’t boring, they’re just betterKen Early says there’s little point in Arsenal or anyone else complaining about their styleMon Apr 27 2015 - 05:45
Jack Grealish shows composure beyond his years in FA Cup semi-finalWinger’s performance should put him in the frame for Ireland’s game against ScotlandMon Apr 20 2015 - 11:13
Rejuvenated Marouane Fellaini inspires Manchester derby winVan Gaal was thankful of the home support and the impact of his now key man FellainiMon Apr 13 2015 - 09:07
Sterling could be right to move – and not just for the moneyIt is nonsense to say the player owes Liverpool and that he would develop best thereMon Apr 06 2015 - 11:03
Ken Early: Game of two halves adds up for IrelandBig decisions pay off for O’Neill as team rallies to keep qualification chances aliveMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
Soccer feeling like unloved child in tale of two sportsTrapattoni returned to Italy convinced the Irish public was more passionate about rugby – but he was wrongSat Mar 28 2015 - 05:00
Rodgers must take share of the blame for latest lossLiverpool again faltered when playing one of the league’s big clubsMon Mar 23 2015 - 09:13
The headline figures show Manchester United mean businessThey look certain to overtake Real Madrid as football’s biggest-earning club by 2017Mon Mar 16 2015 - 09:40
Current brittle Arsenal far from the old ‘Invincibles’Wenger’s outfit unlikely to be the ones to expose the cracks in United’s facadeMon Mar 09 2015 - 05:00
Manchester City folded first against Liverpool despite holding all the cardsWith half an hour to go, a team of millionaire champions looked ready to settle for a drawMon Mar 02 2015 - 11:20
Van Gaal is not the superstar-whisperer United needClub went out to sign biggest names but the Dutchman is not a chequebook managerMon Feb 23 2015 - 05:45
Sky has shown there are no limits when it comes to televised soccerBack in 1988 footballers weren’t even sure there games should be shown on televisionMon Feb 16 2015 - 11:00
Gareth Bale takes brunt of Real Madrid criticismA 4-0 thrashing at city rivals Atletico prompts fans to whistle world’s most expensive playerMon Feb 09 2015 - 15:17
Ken Early: Time will tell whether Arsenal have changed – or whether Allardyce has them peggedIn strange way, Wenger’s reaction to win gave credence to West Ham manager’s opinionMon Jan 19 2015 - 12:16
Fifa president Sepp Blatter keeps making wrong callsComment on Lionel Messi being best starts the age of Cristiano RonadoMon Jan 12 2015 - 12:00
Ken Early: No league title but in arena of melodrama Gerrard was undisputed starLiverpool midfielder too pessimistic to ever feel happy sitting on bench for mediocre sideMon Jan 05 2015 - 12:01
Steven Gerrard and the ‘Top, Top’ ChopKen Early on how a line from Alex Ferguson got the world wondering just how good the Liverpool and England midfielder really isFri Jan 02 2015 - 15:44
Fifa’s movie United Passions doesn’t let the truth stand in the way of a bad storySomething very wrong with world football’s organising body’s celuloid depiction of itselfMon Dec 29 2014 - 12:00
Christmas carols and tobacco – not football – the real forces for peace in the trenchesFootball may well have potential as a ‘universal language’ – certainly Uefa like to think soMon Dec 22 2014 - 12:00
No self-congratulation from Van Gaal, but Rodgers is no longer the prince of positivityLiverpool’s manager has no time to feel sorry for himself – not when his team needs leadershipMon Dec 15 2014 - 15:09
