In memory of certainty and unbelievable belief

In a beautiful column for sportsjoe.ie last week, Dion Fanning wrote of the joy that has exploded at home courtesy of his four-year-old son’s discovery of football via the hair and then the magic of Mo Salah, writes Larry Ryan.

Dion didn’t think football mattered to him like it used to and he felt maybe that was no harm, all things considered, given the investment of time and agitation it typically demands — especially in a household where it sounds like Liverpool are on the box quite a bit.

But just when Dion thought he was out, football sucked him back in again, as it tends to do.