love-in

Now, what both parties in this football love-in would like is for this story to end with the biggest celebration of all.

Back to the tour, our mutually devoted dog love-in is a perfect segue into talking about “Woof!” and how the tour is going.

Given their complicated feelings about him, it's a love-in or a pile-on balanced on a knife edge.

Plenty might have expected a Liverpool love-in from Jamie Carragher after his beloved Reds' dramatic Carabao Cup final triumph over Chelsea.

There have been cynical reflections on what some have regarded as an over-blown Postecoglou love-in since his arrival at Spurs from Celtic, but what is beyond question is that he has shifted the entire mood of this football club.