Haven’t we been here in the past?

IF football doesn’t quite explain the world, it features enough individual elements that have genuinely allowed exploration of some of life’s bigger questions.

Even Giovanni Trapattoni would surely appreciate the nature of chance and how apparently isolated, innocuous moments on a pitch can ripple out to influence entire title races.

So far, though, no-one has really discussed the existential nature of ‘the draw’, despite the manner in which it features neither winners nor losers, just life’s ongoing ambiguity.