Sometimes news comes through that is so shocking, so horrific, so unbelievably heart-rending and tragic, that you can barely fit it into your mind.

You try until you think your skull will pop, but it’s so monumental that it spills out of the sides, flushing away all rational thought, until all you can do is sink to your knees, beat the ground into a furious maelstrom of dust and misery, raise your tear-streaked face to the skies and scream, “Why? Why did this happen? No! Not to him! Not to Dec!”

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Declan Donnelly missed the goal in England’s match against Slovakia.