It's hard to believe we’re fast approaching five years since the beginning of those dark Covid days when there was so little ambient light and Jordan Henderson seemed to provide some.
We were all grasping for evidence of humanity in football. Henderson put his voice to the Players Together initiative through which, with other captains, he encouraged donations to the NHS and wound up with an MBE.
‘If there's stuff in the future that might help people, I'm sure we'll look to do so,’ he said after being named the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year around that time, little knowing how that future would take him into a PR death spiral.