It’s Super Sunday. Come. On. You. Boys. In. Green.

When it comes to Super Sporting Sundays, this one falls into the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious category, our football team in with a chance of automatically qualifying for Euro 2016. And the rugby fellas are playing too.

For those with no interest at all in sport, it will be a day of unrelenting misery because normal people will be talking about nothing else.

AND... remember The Irish Times's sports lads will be live blogging the whole lot of it to within an inch of its life.

Greeeeat. Tell us again, what's so super about Sunday? Well, the appetiser on the menu, before the main course in Warsaw, is the 4.45 Cardiff meeting of Ireland and France at the Rugby World Cup, which has been going on for eight months. (Rugby Dept: No it hasn't, it only started on September 18th).

Both nations have already qualified for the quarter-finals, having taken maximum points from their games against Italy, Romania and someone else, so the result doesn’t matter at all. (Rugby Dept: It matters a great deal. Google is your friend). Actually, according to Google, the result matters a great deal because it’s rather important to finish top of the group.

Why? Because apparently the group runners-up will have to play reigning world champions New Zealand in the quarter-finals – and they're quite good. Win the group and you get yourself a meeting with Argentina in the last eight. Argentina might know how to play proper football, but they know nothing about rugby (Rugby Dept: They're the seventh ranked nation in the world and have beaten us before in the World Cup).

Argentina are that bad? No, just kidding, they're the seventh-ranked nation in the world and have beaten us before in the World Cup. But still, they'd be a better proposition than a nation we've never beaten at all.

Didn't we beat the All Blacks in 1978? You're from Munster, aren't you? Yes. Anyway, Ireland should be grand, captained as they are by the best player in the world: Brian O'Driscoll. (Rugby Dept: Don't forget Willie John McBride, he's sure to have a stormer).

Next up: The Big One. Ireland play Poland in Warsaw (7.45) in the final group game of their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign – that is if they've returned to terra firma after beating Germany on Thursday.

Are Germany good? They're the New Zealand of football. So, their highly improbable defeat didn't go down well at home, the Bild newspaper headline reading: "Das dumme Ding von Dublin."

What does that mean? No idea, but probably not complimentary. So, that win guaranteed two things: (1) That every child born in Ireland in the next six months will be named Shane, even the girls; and (2) Ireland are assured of a top-three finish in the group. Third place puts you in to the play-offs, where you meet another third-placed nation over two legs, the winners off to France next summer.

But . . . Martin O'Neill's Jolly Green Giants could even automatically qualify for Euro 2016 by leapfrogging Poland in to second if they win or score two goals or more in a draw.

Are you still there? Zzzzzz

And . . . they could even top the group if they beat Poland and Germany fail to beat Georgia at home! Have stranger things happened in sport? No. (Rugby Dept: Cough – Japan v South Africa).

So, what'll happen if both Irelands win on Super Sunday? There'll probably be a snap election, the polling booths opening at 7am on Monday morning.

The party with the overall majority, though, will be the one celebrating Euro 2016 qualification. (Rugby Dept: Hello? And victory over France).