Larry Ryan: Should the Premier League have been cancelled at the same time as Friends?

How can you separate them, these twin pillars of Irish life that came in and took over?

WE’LL BE THERE FOR YOU: Alex Ferguson with current Manchester United players Scott McTominay, Brandon Williams, Harry Maguire, and Phil Jones at the premiere of the documentary ‘Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In’ at Old Trafford. Picture: Lindsey Parnaby / AFP/Getty Images

Trailers were released this week for an upcoming special revisiting one of the great cultural phenomena of our times. A divisive global juggernaut that dominated the nineties and delivered some of the most powerful collective experiences of the television age.

And besides the new Alex Ferguson documentary, there’s also the Friends reunion on the way.