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For the day that’s in it, two things CAN be true at once.

The featured image comes from an email that landed in my inbox yesterday morning.

Last May, Hearts came to Celtic Park as nativism’s standard-bearers on Planet Fitba.

Well, I did say “brace for impact!”

If you’re of a Celtic persuasion, then I reckon a reasonable approach for tonight’s match against Benfica is “brace for impact!”

When I read this report from the Independent Football Regulator (IFR), I immediately imagined the brilliant Steve Carell as Mark Baum in The Big Short.

For the avoidance of doubt, the need for the Orange subculture to feed its supremacism craving hasn’t gone away, you know.

As the tennis balls heroically arced towards King Dermot on the 15th hole at the Alfred Dunhill Links golf tournament in St Andrews, I was reminded of an observation imparted to me when I was an ardently politicised teenager half a century ago:

The day after the collapse in Austria, I was told of a tense exchange in the immediate aftermath of the game against Lasc.

The last few days in the Six Counties feel like someone has powered up the DeLorean and driven us back to 1996.