All the time I’m watching footage of Conor McGregor go toe-to-toe with a bus, I’m wondering what Lee Murray would do in the same situation. Something similar, I suspect. The chaos. The confusion. The controversy. But the damage and the terror would be far greater. That much is obvious.
I witness it from every angle. I hear every shout of anger, panic and fear. Yet, without wanting to downplay its severity, I can’t escape the feeling that it all seems a bit Murray-lite. The McGregor shtick, the rent-a-hooligans, the threat level. It’s the sort of carnage a teenage Murray would have wreaked on his way home from school.