Jason Knight: I’m only 20, I want to play as many games as I can for Ireland

Not only has Knight played in 37 of Derby County’s 38 league games this term, on just five occasions did he not complete the full 90 minutes

ALL IN: Jason Knight with Republic of Ireland team-mates Alan Browne, centre, Troy Parrott, and coach Keith Andrews during a training session in Debrecen, Hungary yesterday. Knight has played in 37 of Derby’s 38 league games this season. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

There is always the next game.

Three days after a World Cup qualifying defeat at home to Luxembourg, facing Qatar in a friendly which is being staged in an empty stadium in Hungary seems like the perfect illustration of the absurd circumstances that Covid-19 has enforced upon us all.