Someone on the Betfair discussion forum recently resurrected the old chestnut about the former Brazilian captain Socrates playing soccer in the League of Ireland and - because people can never leave well enough alone in such circumstances - winning a Sigerson Cup medal as a medical student in UCD to boot. So the next time a pub bore asks you to "name the three players who won All Ireland medals and appeared in the World Cup finals", kindly inform him that there's only one: Kevin Moran.

Niall Quinn didn't win an All Ireland medal when lining out for Dublin against Galway in the 1983 minor hurling . nal, while we've yet to be treated to any even vaguely plausible evidence that Socrates ever studied in Dublin.

And no, Gerd Muller didn't win a Sigerson Cup medal in the 1970s on a Thomond College team that included Brian Mullins and Pat Spillane either?