TV view: Les Miserables in Montrose as Irish affair ends in Lyon

The great day has dawned but the panel are worried. They’re worried for any number of reasons. Let us count the ways.

The heat. The humidity. Ireland’s four-day turnaround compared to France’s seven-day break. Ireland’s 5,000 fans in Lyon compared to France’s 45,000 fans. The likelihood that the referee will favour the hosts. Payet, the Hammer with the hammer foot. Pogba. Griezmann. Kante. You get the picture.

Just in case viewers feel like going behind the sofa, Darragh Maloney says soothingly, Liam Brady can offer grounds for cautious optimism. Aerial bombardment, he suggests. Evra “can be got at”. Lloris, unlike a certain far-off Spurs predecessor from Down, doesn’t like coming for crosses. Koscielny isn’t great in the air either.