It wasn't meant to be this way. Not really. Ravel Morrison was supposed to be lighting up Champions League nights, not Championship relegation fights, at 29.
But given where the former Manchester United starlet has been — in the dock, out of control, sight and mind — perhaps we should be grateful he is here at all. Derby fans certainly will be, after he scored his first English league goal for eight years, then his second of the afternoon, to see off Barnsley in a must-win dogfight on Saturday.
The first, in particular, was genius.