GAA purists will frequently scorn any excess interest in the “foreign game” but it was to foreign fields you needed to look last Sunday for some of the best sporting drama. It was in Leicester and at the Etihad that the best of the drama took place as the All Ireland Football Final in Croke Park lacked any lustre.

Even the Tuesday Night of the Long Penalty shoot-out at Anfield provided a better spectacle to get neutral supporters on the edge of their seats.