Hello darkness, my old friend

WOW, that was fast. It’s knocked days off my personal best. I don’t know why anyone’s the least surprised; in the Rafa Years we’ve always been up and down like Paris Hilton on a pogo stick.

Feast or famine, and never anything in-between. It’s been this way since he arrived. Hence the drama, hence the hysteria.

I’m trying to stay as level-headed as I can but it’s hard. We’ve almost been through the entire rose-tinted back catalogue of get-out clauses. Similar bad times under our greatest managers? Check. United not sacking Ferguson when they had every right to? Check. Shankly’s somewhat similar treatment of his players and his six seasons without a trophy? Check. Injuries? Check. American duplicity and the summer snaffling of transfer funds? Cheque.