Mr Foghorn’s handsome mea culpa

Not a move endorsed by Julie Andrews, never mind rehearsed on the training field under the watchful eye of Joe Schmidt, but let’s start at the very end, writes Enda McEvoy. 

It’s a little past 7pm on Saturday evening and social media is blazing with righteous condemnation of George Hook.

Mr Foghorn had more or less declared beforehand that this was — shades of Brendan Rodgers — a team chosen in the full knowledge it would lose. Let’s see you contort your way out of that, O Garrulous One.