For sports columnists in search of topics to write about, there’s always a swivelling quality — swivelling, I said — to the days running up to deadline.

Even as England flop at another tournament, nobody can question the might and reach of its Premier League. But is the league’s global dominance healthy? Is the MLS is better equipped to live in its shadow than the League of Ireland?

Former Ireland boxing head coach Billy Walsh has put his nightmare row with the sport’s chiefs behind him as he begins his “fairytale” new life in the US.