Michel Platini

The best games I ever saw in Croke Park were two Cumann na mBunscol epics

Emmet Malone looks back on the 2006 quarter-final dominated by the mesmerising Frenchman

Meeting between Platini, Sarkozy and Qatar prime minister in 2010 comes under scrutiny

Duo were banned from football in 2015 but money has not been repaid to association

Draw for the finals to include 12 countries who won’t actually play in the tournament

Flying 10,000km to watch a match will some day be seen as a mad thing people used to do

Planet Business: No shortage of ambition

Lawyer said his client was innocent and had been questioned on ‘technical’ grounds

Former Uefa president voted to award World Cup to Qatar after Elysée Palace meeting

Corruption, bribery suspected in awarding process for 2022 World Cup

Brazilian goalkeeper made the big saves when Tottenham’s pressure rocked Liverpool late on

There is no need for the top administrative functionary in the FAI to be so high-profile

His plans for Club World Cup and Nations League have caused friction with Uefa

Chelsea striker ended a 10-match goalless run to score the winner in Paris

City, United, Liverpool and Spurs to discover opponents

From the 1924 Olympics in Paris, to their World Cup stalemate at the 2010 World Cup

Disgraced ex-Fifa president’s presence likely to be an unwelcome distraction for Infantino

Just six of the squad that played in last World Cup in Brazil will be on the plane to Russia

Former Uefa boss believes he will eventually be cleared of criminal wrongdoing

Nation which recently hosted Ireland has the infrastructure but not the political climate

NFL system would prevent the new practice from being too finicky and overbearing

Dublin and Bilbao will share matches in Group B of the tournament

It remains to be seen if the FAI chief executive can be a real force for change

Spanish football chief in custody following his arrest on alleged corruption charges

Organisers of World Cups in Russia and Qatar unlikely to be troubled by its details

Eckert: ‘You have to ask Infantino why he made this proposal’

Notion that women’s team issue would harm FAI boss always seemed fanciful

Former Uefa president hits out at ex Fifa chief in French newspaper interview

FAI boss is one of 13 candidates for eight positions on influential committee

‘As you can imagine I feel so proud and happy to receive this amazing and beautiful ball'

He is appealing against a six-year ban from football imposed for ethics violations

New Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin open to showpiece being held in New York

Will complete the remaining two-and-a-half years of banned Michel Platini’s term

Slovenia’s Ceferin is tipped to be Platini’s successor but little is known about him

‘My name wouldn’t be Sepp Blatter if I didn’t have faith, if I wasn’t optimistic’

The IOC has said it does not trust Russia to hold any major international sporting events

Next tournament will spread across 13 countries with qualification set to change

Financial realities inevitably trump the decline of quality in the football itself

Semi-final has been sometimes billed as a one-on-one affair, but it is more than that

Switzerland out of Euro 2016 after losing on penalties following a drab last-16 opener