I’ve alluded to it before but I think part of the problem is this wider issue of social media fuelling extreme opinions and everything having to fit a particular narrative, with no middle ground anymore.

He’s far from perfect but he is what he is, and this would be a tricky job for anyone at the moment. We’ve still got a decent chance of ending the season achieving what I think most reasonable fans would have said, last summer, was the aim. The time to judge him is at the end of the month.