Your alarm goes off at seven in the morning and you feel like you have been dragged behind a bus. Your eyes are red, your head is fuzzy and your phone shows three notifications from mates who watched the same match and are equally destroyed. Welcome to the 2026 World Cup from Ireland — a […]

The easiest way to predict the Golden Boot is to identify the best striker in the tournament and back him. The easiest way is also the worst way. At the 2014 World Cup, the best striker was arguably Luis Suarez or Lionel Messi, but James Rodriguez won the award with six goals. At the 2022 […]

Nobody was talking about Croatia before the 2018 World Cup. They were priced at 28/1 and most pundits had them as quarter-final material at best. Four weeks later they were in the final. The lesson has been taught at every major tournament in living memory: the team that wins the World Cup is not always […]

We watch these lads every Saturday. We know their first touch, their weak foot, the face they make when they miss a sitter. We have opinions on whether they track back and arguments about whether they deserve to start. For Irish football fans, the Premier League is not a foreign competition — it is our […]