It says everything about skewed perspectives that Bryan Robson’s illuminating observations about the current crisis elicited far less traction than his views on the merits of Bruno Fernandes, when a nuanced, intelligent interview he gave to Sportsmail was published a few weeks ago.
Robson, it turns out, has been spending time these desperate past weeks helping the elderly: telephoning them to make their football memories a part of the restorative process and also speaking to fellow ex-professionals who are struggling.
And his conclusions about the devastation he was seeing all around? 'I can't see how we can even consider restarting sport when there are still hundreds of people dying every day in this country.