And so, after all the years of plenty, after all the years of taking, when the nation was plunged into a crisis and football’s rainy day came, the Premier League’s billionaire owners had a simple message for us: there’s nothing left.
And as they delivered it, they asked everyone else to recompense them for what they had squandered.
They asked us, the taxpayers, by applying to the Government’s furlough scheme to help pay lower-paid staff. And most of all, they asked the players. They treated them like children.
They bullied them and patronised them and then they begged them.