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Michel Platini
My favourite sporting moment: Family matters as Scoil Bhríde bring it all back home
The best games I ever saw in Croke Park were two Cumann na mBunscol epics
My favourite sporting moment: When Zidane glided through Brazil in 2006
Emmet Malone looks back on the 2006 quarter-final dominated by the mesmerising Frenchman
French authorities open investigation into Qatar 2022
Meeting between Platini, Sarkozy and Qatar prime minister in 2010 comes under scrutiny
Fifa to sue Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to get back €1.8m
Duo were banned from football in 2015 but money has not been repaid to association
Qualification for Euro 2020 a long and tedious process
Draw for the finals to include 12 countries who won’t actually play in the tournament
Ken Early: Ireland and Georgia have one problem in common - a difficult neighbour
Flying 10,000km to watch a match will some day be seen as a mad thing people used to do
Michel Platini: ‘It hurts for everything I can think of, everything I’ve done’
Lawyer said his client was innocent and had been questioned on ‘technical’ grounds
Platini’s lunch with Sarkozy at the heart of corruption investigation
Former Uefa president voted to award World Cup to Qatar after Elysée Palace meeting
Michel Platini arrested in Qatar World Cup investigation
Corruption, bribery suspected in awarding process for 2022 World Cup
Ken Early: Alisson in Wanda land completes fairytale season for Liverpool
Brazilian goalkeeper made the big saves when Tottenham’s pressure rocked Liverpool late on
Why is John Delaney in the news . . . so much?
There is no need for the top administrative functionary in the FAI to be so high-profile
Fifa says incumbent Infantino is sole candidate for president
His plans for Club World Cup and Nations League have caused friction with Uefa
Olivier Giroud inspires France to victory over Netherlands
Chelsea striker ended a 10-match goalless run to score the winner in Paris
Premier League big guns await their Champions League fate
City, United, Liverpool and Spurs to discover opponents
The history of France v Uruguay
From the 1924 Olympics in Paris, to their World Cup stalemate at the 2010 World Cup
Sepp Blatter finalising plans to attend World Cup in Russia
Disgraced ex-Fifa president’s presence likely to be an unwelcome distraction for Infantino
Deschamps going radical as he transforms France squad
Just six of the squad that played in last World Cup in Brazil will be on the plane to Russia
Michel Platini lashes out at ‘clowns’ and ‘worthless judges’ over ban
Former Uefa boss believes he will eventually be cleared of criminal wrongdoing
Emmet Malone: why Turkey shouldn’t host a major tournament, yet
Nation which recently hosted Ireland has the infrastructure but not the political climate
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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