King’s reign endures the Dunphy treatment

Entente Cordiale, surely? King for a day, or two. No need to pepper the makeshift throne.

Not on your life. Kinger would not be leaving his post without a souvenir shellacking.

“A strange team and a strange system,” pondered Eamon Dunphy. “If I had a thousand goes, I wouldn’t have picked it. Whelan has survived, to play wide on the right. Off the charts mad. Kevin Doyle on the left? Nonsense. If you put the names in a hat, this is what might come out.”