As far as one can make out from the press coverage this year’s soccer World Cup seems to be over. It’s time to look ahead and when it comes to forward thinking Norn Iron is the place to go. While some are maintaining the two hundred year old Orangefest tradition of inter communal rioting and others assert their national identity by destroying a couple of cricket pitches the area’s finest brains are looking for opportunities.

Professor Billy McWilliams is Visitin’ Lekturer at the Ulster Scots School o’ Dancin’, Ballymena and he has produced this video making the irresistibly persuasive case for Norn Iron hosting the 2018 World Cup.

You don’t rise to Prof McWilliam’s station in life by indulging in that post modernist Althusserian nonsense which is probably why he has “bin honoured til receive the richt fur til make the official fillum”.