After their speedy acceptance that the concussed Lee Keegan should have been substituted earlier in last Sunday’s defeat by Cork, the Mayo Gaelic football set-up has been widely praised for a constructive contribution to the player welfare ‘conversation’.

The rising cult of the project manager last Monday night: Gary Neville applied polish to his punditry crown with a forensic, split-screen dissection of Jon Walters’s set-piece goal at Upton Park — an epic sequence of crafty nudges, darts, blocks and shoves that knocked over enough claret dominos to make way for a tidy finish from Gio Trapattoni’s battering ram du jour.