Back in that innocent age we called "June", when it looked like every group in the first round of the World Cup (the first round? ...

So Giants Stadium is no more. Jason Clinkscales got onto the field after the Giants' last game there in December, filming it for poster...

The strange — and not-so-strange — case of Stephen Ireland. Part two of two. Part one here . The sometimes viscerally strong feeling we can ...

The strange — and not-so-strange — case of Stephen Ireland. Part one of two. Part two here . The makers of the otherwise fine RTE television...

Image by toksuede on Flickr; spotted at / robbed from You'll Never Win Anything With Kids . * Firstly: fuck. Secondly: the Thierry Hen...

Forgive me for the egregious use of the first person when talking about the national team — can't be helped, sometimes...Thoughts on Ire...

Bart : This isn't bad. Homer: Isn't bad? Tell me one thing mankind's ever done that's any better? Lisa: The ...

If you find yourself being sucked into a black hole all of a sudden this Saturday, it's not that they've fixed the Large Hadron Coll...

Oh, just a heads up in case you missed the news at the weekend: whatever deity you've been praying to all these years has been usurped b...

Tapping into the market for day-old recaps of games you couldn't care less about. When Trapattoni faces Cúper, the game could probably d...

See me foment revolution in my latest Soccerlens post , whose titles's unintended ambiguity I make sport with in the title of this post...

Stephen Ireland has been talking about his self-imposed exile from the Irish national team, revealing that he has received hate mail from I...

From Lost Worlds by Michael Bywater: ...we should pay our respects to the Daily Sport , which dispensed with the idea that 'news' s...

What is Stephen Hunt and where did it come from? The answers to the latter question are, alas, cloaked in a fog of mystery, perhaps owing to...

(Click on the image for a better view of our national misery, you voyeuristic bastards.) This week saw the issuing by An Post, the Irish nat...

Oh dear. Another nostalgia-laced post accompanied by a YouTube clip. Not even a week in and we're resorting to this. Doesn't bode we...