Cameron Hill

And the money was used to buy Stevenson a hat, which...

An unusual gift, but it means that when you perform a great feat that's hat worthy, it's known as a hat trick.

Well, we don't quite know, but the great sports writer Nick Harris has been doing some digging ahead of the World Cup kicking off next month in, among other places, the US, because Americans are often derided for using the term soccer instead of football, when actually it was used maybe as... So in English public schools, the tradition was to shorten something and use...

er as a suffix so instead of breakfast you'd have breakers so he reckons that soccer comes from a sock football or a soccer shortened to soccer and we know it was used very early on because Charles Redford Brown one of the early greats of the game

There's a story about him saying that he was breakfasting in Oxford one morning when a friend asked him, will you come and have a game of rugger after breakfast?

No, thank you, he said, before adding waggishly, I'm going to play a game of soccer.

So we've been given the angst a hard time.

It should be the English we should be deriding.

All from the Toffs.

Off the Ball, GAA.

Honestly, I wouldn't have put Mark as the manager type.

Now, Mark's been extremely, he's always been an extremely smart player, but in terms of that management role, I possibly would have seen him as a coach.

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Now coming up today, we kick off the final run into Leinster's Champions Cup decider with Bordeaux this weekend, why Irish coaches are à la mode in French rugby right now, and a pretty distressing court case involving a former Wallabies centre in Australia.

First up today, we're 48 hours out from Leinster's Investec Champions Cup final against Bordeaux in Bilbao.