When the call came from Alex Ferguson, Paul Ince was on the golf course playing against Ryan Giggs.

Managers don’t live or die by their decisions but they either win or lose by them, keep their jobs or are fired by them.

Our Armageddon shone as brightly as the Staffordshire sunshine after registering a top-drawer victory in the Singer & Friedlander Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter.

It’s difficult to imagine Ray Reardon making the sort of obscene hand gesture that marred Ronnie O’Sullivan’s latest success at the Embassy World Championship.