How Cork City could still lose the league

There appears to be a widespread and, dare I say, complacent acceptance in League of Ireland circles that, just because they are unbeaten and 18 points clear at the half-way mark, nothing can now stop Cork City from going on to be crowned SSE Airtricity League champions for 2017, writes Liam Mackey.

This, of course, is lazy and even crazy thinking since it overlooks a number of eminently plausible ways in which the title might not yet end up going south.

The most obvious one is that, between now and October, the world is hit by a mass extinction event, such as heralded the sudden and brutal demise of the poor old dinosaurs who, a bit like Cork City this season, were happily stomping on all-comers until hit by that unexpected bolt from the blue and, in a flash as it were, found themselves replaced in the pecking order by tenacious little mammals.