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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: All hail Jack the lad, a free spirit in the age of robot footballers. Grealish is a dose of unvarnished joy that sport was designed for and a reminder it doesn't always have to be serious

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A friend sent over a terrific old video clip on Monday afternoon. It was from Father Ted and he felt it was topical, because it's the one where Jack has had himself another drink from the bottle of Toilet Duck and run away again.

It's a little while later that Ted and the local sergeant spot him roaming wild and free and loopy in the local woodland. Taking aim with a tranquiliser rifle, the sergeant asks if he should shoot, but Ted presses down gently on the barrel. 'No,' he says. 'Let him go. He'll make his own way back.