It’s simply a question of faith

Exclude me, if you will, from the ranks of the ‘media toerags’ whose foul agendas were purportedly dashed in Abbotstown on Wednesday night.

I just didn’t have the stomach for it. As far as fights worth staging go, this one, for me, ranked behind even the tantalising prospect of Harrison-Chisora.

In fact, there was much to admire in the way Giovanni Trapattoni was prepared to slip out of his job without any fight in the same minimalist manner he has performed it all along, bringing to mind the antics of Peter Gibbons in the slacker classic Office Space — the guy who grew more unsackable in the eyes of his superiors the less interest he took in his job.