And, in a bleary-eyed mess, all I noticed was goats.

Goat statuses, goat pictures and goat emojis. Goats everywhere.

Either I had liked a page with funny goat videos or the Nathan Lyon brigade had re-emerged pointlessly (as they so often do), singing the praises of the country’s over-glorified finger spinner.

I was wrong though.

I scrolled a little deeper to find Roger Federer recorded victory in the Australian Open final, coming from behind to edge Rafa Nadal in a five-set classic at Rod Laver Arena.

If you hadn’t worked it our already, I didn’t see it.

That’s not entirely true: I saw some of it.

Federer was all class in the third set, Nadal dogged but clearly not at his best for the most part. But I missed the fifth.

That’s right. I fell asleep.

And I woke up to Federer being dubbed the Greatest Of All Time – aka, the Goat.

No doubt, the Swiss master is a phenomenal player. His 18 Grand Slam titles are a benchmark that may never be surpassed.

If Chaz Michael Michaels IS figure skating, then Roger Federer’s backhand IS tennis.

But if Federer is, as he’s being called, the Goat, then what is Nadal? Just some poor Spanish bloke who beats him all the time?

What Manuel is to Basil Fawlty? Keh?

At 30 years of age, time hasn’t been kind to Nadal’s body. 

Never mind his sliding hairline, he’s a broken man – that much is very clear.

If he had his way, the Spaniard would probably set up camp at the clay courts of Roland Garros and never play anywhere else in the world again.

And, despite Sunday night’s loss against Federer, he’d probably choose to play Roger every time.

Nadal has beaten the veteran 23 times in their 35 meetings.

In Grand Slam epics, Nadal holds a 9-3 record. In Grand Slam finals, Nadal boasts an incredible 6-3 record over Fed.

Can anyone classed as the greatest afford to have a losing record against an opponent as prominent in the history books as the great Rafa Nadal?

Federer can’t claim a winning record over the wall that is Novak Djokovic either. The Joker has knocked off Fed in nine of their 14 Grant Slam bouts. 

Michael Jordan didn’t lose on the biggest stage. Ever.

Usain Bolt’s another – can any athlete claim to have been as fast as the great Jamaican over as long a period? 

Olympic gold medals in the 100m and 200m sprints at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games says, emphatically, no.

We’ll have to wait a long time before we see a rivalry quite like Nadal and Federer. Two of the sports out-and-out champions duking it out for tennis’ ultimate prize.

We may never see it in a Grand Slam ever again.

And after more than 10 years, as they've brought out the best in each other and played some of the most exhilarating tennis anyone of any era could hope to see, if it's their last meeting, Sunday’s final was a more than fitting encore.

But this much is clear: don’t write off Nadal, in the Goat debate, not just yet. 

He’s as big a billy, if not bigger, than the Swiss ace most of the tennis world is raving about.