Just when things couldn’t get any worse for Man United...

Premier League clubs continue to discover just how punishing Brexit can be.

The cull of five contenders to just two after the Champions League Round of 16 was brutal enough, before the luck of the draw got in on the act in Nyon yesterday and decreed that only the one would be permitted entry to the last four.

From Jamie Carragher, a man behaving atrociously, to Gareth Southgate finding himself obliged to play political football, it’s been a case of ‘events, dear boy’ conspiring to blow the English game off course this week.