For a couple of hours at least, thoughts could wander from the living hell Vladimir Putin has unleashed upon the world.
This week, the Russian president sent his troops into the sovereign territory of a neighbour with a democratically-elected government by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and bringing war to the continent of Europe.
George Orwell once described international sport as “war without the shooting” but that’s not the case in the cosmopolitan Premier League where the players and fans of both Everton and Manchester City showed you can be intense football rivals once the whistle blows but still remains allies off the pitch, and indeed brothers in arms.
