Liam Mackey: English head, Irish heart, or vice versa, the boy Jack Grealish done good

SHORT of some fiendish combination of brainwashing, kidnapping, bribery, rule-bending, and sending time’s arrow into reverse, Ireland’s only hope of seeing Jack Grealish grace the Aviva Stadium in the summer is if England top their Euro 2020 group and so contest a round-of-16 game in Dublin, potentially against Germany.

There’s a few ‘ifs’ in there, to be sure, not least of which is the fact that Grealish has yet to receive an England call-up.