What with the end of the heatwave, England crashing out of the World Cup and Trump's impending visit to the UK, the English summer is, we're sorry to say, now dead, and Roy Keane is taking huge delight on dancing on its grave.

He and Ian Wright clashed on ITV after the England game last night over whether we should enjoy England's second ever World Cup semi-final, or if, in fact, everyone was being big stupid babies about the whole thing.

"You have to focus just on one game but everyone's taking about the final... that football's coming home," Keane said.

Ian Wright sounded genuinely quite bruised by Keane's sourpussery. "The fact is we were just happy and you weren't happy for us being happy for us at that time," he said.

"I don't mind you being happy," said Keane, who absolutely did, "but you're getting carried away, you were planning the final and where the parades were."

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"You need a reality check."

Well, here he is. Here he bloody is. Roy Keane, the human reality check. Wright wouldn't back down, though. "Why shouldn't we get excited about it?" he asked.

"You can get excited about it when you get to the final - this was the semi-final," Keane said, presumably knowing full well that he would definitely have told Wright off for doing anything more giddy than staring at a wall in silence before watching England in a World Cup final.

He went on: "Just take it one game as it comes. You were talking about the final, it's ridiculous. You know how hard it is to get to these big finals or even to the World Cup."

But that's what we did Roy! We did that! That was the point when it really started to break down into a Jeremy Kyle paternity test-style squabble. Wright: "Final!" Keane: "You're talking about finals!" Wright: "Final!"

All the while, Gary Neville giggled madly. He's still terrified of Keane isn't he? Well one man isn't. One man has the strength of character to stand up to international sadsacks and put forward a vision for a better future.