Manchester City’s 2024-25 season is a textbook study in burnout
A potential $150m payday from the Club World Cup risks creating an injury nightmare for Pep Guardiola
Ken Early: Evan Ferguson gives Ireland fans a glimpse of the player they dream he will become
A fourth win in eight games under Heimir Hallgrimsson gives us something dangerous – hope
Ken Early: The Bulgaria game went to plan and a coach cannot ask for much more
Ireland’s methodical diagonal switches and deep far-post crosses eventually pulled apart the Bulgarians as they had the Finns
Ken Early: League B of this silly competition won’t be seeing the last of Ireland just yet
Nations League: Troy Parrott shines as Heimir Hallgrímsson’s side enjoy rare comfortable second half
Newcastle were perfectly primed to surprise a tired Liverpool in Carabao Cup final
Arne Slot’s reluctance to trust in his extended squad left his side vulnerable to a chastening final defeat
Arsenal’s season of regression puts pressure on Mikel Arteta
Manchester United need new players and an unlikely summer encounter
Ken Early: Watching Messi in Miami, it’s clear that a sixth World Cup is possible
I was one of the people paying way over the odds to see Messi play for Inter Miami against New York City
Record crowd a sign that many Irish fans now care more about the League of Ireland than the national team
Shamrock Rovers manager’s criticism of Heimir Hallgrímsson may have missed the point but his outburst will do the domestic game no harm
Ken Early: Fifa president Gianni Infantino has relentlessly sucked up to Trump since 2017
Infantino and Trump share one common enemy – the thing that used to be called the mainstream media
Erling Haaland’s arrogance comes back to bite him as Arsenal humiliate the Man City striker
While Mikel Arteta’s side hope to push on for the Premier League title, Manchester City look like they want the season to finish now
Ken Early: All VAR does is annoy everybody while delaying everything
Wrong refereeing decisions cannot be eliminated from football because most of the time wrongness is a matter of subjective perception
Ken Early: Denis Law one of the very best in the days when players were the only ones who mattered
Football now increasingly subject to the influence of forces that never appear on the pitch
Ken Early: If Mikel Arteta really loves Arsenal’s players, he should let them play
Gabriel Jesus’s injury and another unconvincing performance by Kai Havertz underlined how badly Arsenal need a new forward
Ruben Amorim’s anger in Liverpool augurs well for Manchester United
Sunday’s Premier League match at Anfield suggested there could be some sense to selling Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid
Ken Early: The pursuit of calm, running from risk and Euro nationalism mark a mixed year of football
Moments of magic being sapped from the game as managers opt to cut out risky business