Down with the bunting, box up the tinsel. The league is over and we can all relax in the afterglow of our trophy gluttony. No late-campaign jitters, sleepless nights worrying about goal difference and whether our little star will shine brightest. It’s over and everyone knows it is.

Mornings like these, when reader has a few precious hours advantage on the writer, you have to feel for Pat Maloney.

Deepak Chopra — still waiting for his Premier League chance — calls it past conditioning. “A new experience enters the mind, but instead of being evaluated for itself, is shunted down a well-worn track.”

There has been further bad news on the jobs front in Northern Ireland with the news 135 people will be made redundant in Co Antrim.