In days gone by, a winger wasn’t a winger unless the soles of his boots were covered in white paint from spending so much time standing on the touchline; and that’s a tradition which might be making a return in 2019-20.

Despite growing public anger, Nigeria’s army today appeared to reject a plan to move a weapons dump from the crowded Lagos suburb where more than 1,000 people are missing, feared dead, after a series of huge explosions.