This post is about football: not Gaelic football, but football as it is played by many millions of men and women around the world, the ‘beautiful game’ as it is played by Brazil and France and Argentina, at Real Madrid and Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich. I have been a passionate Irish football fan since I was 10 years old, when I followed the great Northern Ireland team of Danny Blanchflower, Peter McParland, Jimmy McIlroy, Billy Bingham and Harry ... Read more...