While England football fans have been praying for football to ‘come home’ for the last 56 years, one parishioner in west Belfast sought some help from her own church for quite the opposite.

The priest announces: “Dear Mother of Perpetual Help - and this is a funny last one, but very serious too - put England out of the Euros.

“We are still getting ‘1966’. Please, you would never hear the end of it.”