‘Janto’ fans will be delighted to finally see them on a date, complete with hand-holding and one good kiss.

Fundamentalism is a product of decades of official complicity, cowardice and appeasement. Sooner or later, Mr Sharif will be forced to realise that. Until then, he is merely kicking the can down the road.

Despite this, every year European and North American fans turn up to tournaments in droves, bursting with ‘copium’ and ‘hopium’, and leading the charge on twitter with unrelenting boldness in their predictions and claims.

They came looking for blood.