What might happen if football’s top referees, across the continent, walked away?

No doubt a much downtrodden group of people across the globe are keeping a close eye these days on the fate of their brethren in the US.

“Are you a fan of existentialism, Merse?” wondered Jeff Stelling on Soccer Saturday last weekend.

We don’t know what identity James Horan has fitted them with, but there is a sense that this is a Mayo team focused on today.

2 Kings 2:13: He (Elisha) also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

You’d have to cut thin slices to have enough shame to go around on Wednesday afternoon.

So, we know now how the Czechs felt, watching Martina Navratilova slip away from them.

Since the unruly inter-village pastime we know as football was first codified in 1992, just two clubs have triumphed in the English Premier League without gorging on the no-strings financial generosity of a benefactor.

They tell me Alanis Morissette brought out a new album last week.

Perhaps most vitally, they boasted then a certain dash of JR’s winning lawlessness.