Tommy Martin: Seamus Coleman has spent too long fronting up for the failings of others 

After everything Coleman has given, all that honesty, professionalism, leadership and smiling decency, can it really have come to this, the prospect of late career relegation?

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 07: Sergio Reguilon of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Seamus Coleman of Everton during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Everton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on March 07, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Monday night football is a terrible idea because Monday is a terrible night for football. Football should be played in the joyful release of the weekend, or on the theatrical stage of midweek. Monday night is for the mundane and the domestic, a time to fidget and reorder. You can feel it in the flaccid atmosphere at Monday night matches. Everybody is preoccupied – about that meeting in the morning, that bill they can’t pay, that look off their loved one as they headed off to a football match on a Monday night.

Sky Sports have dollied up the concept in recent years with Neville and Carragher and their all-seeing eyes, a Busby Berkeley extravaganza of analysis and opinion that serves to distract from the actual games themselves, stale leftovers from the weekend.