With Saturday’s encounter being our last ever London derby at the Boleyn, there was absolutely no way I was going to do the sensible thing and stop indoors to watch the game on the box, despite having been struck down by a debilitating lurgy last week.

Common sense takes week off — now that is a dealbreaker.

IS it 2004 already? A manager seemingly on the brink, making bizarre statements and boring us to death. Defeat in France, in the cup no one wants to enter.