Karren Brady wanted this season to be declared null and void and we all had a good idea why. We still do. Of all the things that have changed around us in the past three months, the many and varied shortcomings of her club have found a way of surviving the plague.
Clearly the West Ham side that has blinked its way back into the light bears a painful resemblance to the one that retreated to the darkened rooms of lockdown, begging for the beatings to stop. They haven’t, and to see Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United among their remaining fixtures, it is hard to see when they will end.