It's squeaky bum time

photo in the papers on Thursday morning, from the previous night’s PSG-Man City game, pretty much sums up where we’re at as football negotiates the fabled run-in.

It's squeaky bum time

Across all platforms, as they say — the League of Ireland excepted, of course — we’ve arrived at what Alex Ferguson memorably dubbed ‘squeaky bum time’, which is why a moment from the Parc des Princes, frozen in time by an alert snapper, speaks volumes.

The pic shows Fernandinho scuffing City’s 73rd minute equaliser against the hosts, the ball taking a diverting blow off the backside of Thiago Silva on its way to the net while another PSG defender lies on the turf and David Luiz looks on with an expression on his face which suggests he’s just bitten into a lemon.

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