The Home Nations are pinning their collective hopes on Scotland, then

‘The hour’s approaching [Ivan Toney], just give it your best. You’ve got to reach your prime …’ Photograph: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images

UNITED NATIONS

Given the state of the place and the clowns brazenly running it into the ground, The Fiver gives the United Kingdom another decade tops before it splits into four independent countries, or maybe territories so small they’d make several of the states on the Balkan peninsula look like Canada. Two or three years if the disaster capitalists take it up another notch and the unravelling really starts to accelerate with extreme prejudice. But we’re pretty sure the union will hold firm until at least the end of next week, yes, fairly sure, so for now we’re on reasonably safe ground with the concept of the Home Nations, right? Right! Nations League preview for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales it is, then.