Chelsea's season continues to go into reverse and it was a damning sign of their current reduced status that Graham Potter's side departed to a smattering of polite applause following the home defeat to Manchester City.
No show of anger. No dissent aimed at players or manager after the sort of loss that would have been regarded as a potentially fatal wound in the past. Nothing. The atmosphere at Stamford Bridge was more resignation than rebellion.
It is certainly a long time since sympathy greeted a Chelsea home loss to rivals such as Manchester City, a defeat that leaves them 10th in the Premier League, ten points off the Champions League places and trailing west London neighbours Fulham and Brentford.