By George, it’s a long wait until Tuesday

DIDN’T John Paul II get rid of limbo? Not so, it seems, though being a football man, he would surely have appreciated the helplessness we feel on a morning like this, with Tuesday as maddeningly distant as the results of a serious check-up.

Writing before close of play in Tallinn, one assumes, with Trap involved, four or five didn’t go in at either end, that there is unfinished business.

In Between Days, Robert Smith would call it. Days that already don’t feel quite right without one man’s involvement.