The Limerick team and management deserve credit for all that they have achieved, but it is reasonable to take a look at McManus’s influence on the county’s success

The responses of Liverpool’s manager and one of its legends to the appalling assault on Irish fan Seán Cox show they understand the meaning of a club’s heritage. All that might have been lost had the European Super League succeeded

Last week’s disastrous launch of the European Super League was yet another instance of how the world’s biggest sport has become enslaved by its own popularity

In the final part of our look at the financial issues affecting the now collapsed Super League, we break down why international football remains a force the rich clubs cannot ignore

The project’s architects had no discernible strategy for how to sell their ideas to anybody from the public to internal stakeholders

Part four of our look at the financial issues that surround the Super League drama of the last few days examines how debt was the core influence to the hasty moves by Europe’s richest clubs

The key to maximising football’s financial value is to make more money off each game, and this cannot happen while wealthy clubs leave their former rivals behind

Meaningless games between Super League also-rans will be a turn-off for viewers – and there are many more reasons why the project could be doomed before it even begins

The clubs behind the controversial project face more than a moral backlash — competing commercial interests and the reality of market needs make this more of an uphill battle for those involved than it initially appears