My favourite sporting moment: When Zidane glided through Brazil in 2006

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

French authorities open investigation into Qatar 2022

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

Fifa to sue Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to get back €1.8m

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

Qualification for Euro 2020 a long and tedious process

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

Ken Early: Ireland and Georgia have one problem in common - a difficult neighbour

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

Facebook’s money, Heathrow’s expansion and Platini’s arrest

Planet Business: No shortage of ambition

Michel Platini: ‘It hurts for everything I can think of, everything I’ve done’

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

Platini’s lunch with Sarkozy at the heart of corruption investigation

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

Michel Platini arrested in Qatar World Cup investigation

Corruption, bribery suspected in awarding process for 2022 World Cup

Ken Early: Alisson in Wanda land completes fairytale season for Liverpool

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

Why is John Delaney in the news . . . so much?

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

Fifa says incumbent Infantino is sole candidate for president

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

Olivier Giroud inspires France to victory over Netherlands

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

Premier League big guns await their Champions League fate

City, United, Liverpool and Spurs to discover opponents

The history of France v Uruguay

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

Sepp Blatter finalising plans to attend World Cup in Russia

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

Deschamps going radical as he transforms France squad

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

Michel Platini lashes out at ‘clowns’ and ‘worthless judges’ over ban

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

Emmet Malone: why Turkey shouldn’t host a major tournament, yet

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

Ken Early: Give coaches a limited number of VAR appeals

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

Republic of Ireland and Spain could meet at Euro 2020

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

Time for John Delaney to help wield new broom in Uefa

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

Ángel María Villar quits Uefa and Fifa roles following Spain arrest

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

Fifa report eases Qatar and Russia's World Cup fears

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

Finger pointed at Gianni Infantino after Fifa ethics heads ousted

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

John Delaney will do rather nicely out of new Uefa position

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

Michel Platini: Blatter ‘always said I would be his last scalp’

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

John Delaney to run for place on Uefa executive committee

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

Cristiano Ronaldo wins his fourth Ballon d’Or award

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

Sepp Blatter appeal decision to be announced on Monday

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

Champions League final could be staged outside of Europe

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

Slovenia’s Aleksander Ceferin elected new Uefa president

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

A ghost at the feast: Platini to address Uefa election

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

Sepp Blatter appears before CAS as appeal against six-year ban begins

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

Should Russia still host the 2018 World Cup?

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

Euros format will be missed as 2020 travelling circus looms

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

Uefa to stick with 24-team format in European Championships

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

How Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are devoted to the team effort

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

Xherdan Shaqiri stunner not enough as Poland hold nerve

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

France carry weight of a nation as Euros kick-off

Mood of tournament would greatly benefit from a strong showing by home side

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