The blameless innocents from Maccabi have been fined and given a suspended away ban from Uefa for playing up in Stuttgart. This new doesn’t stop MPs from demanding that the WMP chief constable should go back in front of a Select Committee. Can someone please explain to me why so much fuss is being made of this one? We never had such a fuss when Luton banned everybody, all the time. For that matter we’ve never had this much fuss ever.

The messed-around fixtures for February have been released and we’ve got a home Saturday 3 o’clock at last. It’s Leeds on the 21st, unless we’re in a Europa League play-off.

We have three days of looking at the TV, online, the radio and TV before the truth finally dawns – we’re not playing this midweek. You wonder what the players did with all that free time. Unai will have been watching Manchester United matches.

latest update on Pau Torres is that he’s out for a few weeks, and we know what that means. Barcelona want to buy him, except they can’t afford him. And Evann Guessand is going to AFCON after all.

The Spurs tickets go on sale and have all gone within the hour. That’s a bit of an achievement, and so is the Villa ticketing operation managing to do all that work without breaking down. Now let’s see if they can send the right ones out and not nine thousand car parking or women’s matches.

Damian Vidagany before the match: “When I want to know the news I go to sources that I trust, I go to the reporter that is able to do fact checking or try to. Sources with agenda, clickbait or not fact checking intention just deserve to be ignored, Nothing else.”

Then there was the match, and all the usual nonsense that goes with it. You’d have thought only one team were playing, but you’d equally be used to it by now. It wasn’t a particularly good performance, although the first half chances were almost all from us, even before Morgan Rodgers showed why he’s currently the best in the league. Then we had to give them a bit of hope so Matty Cash allowed an equaliser but there wasn’t too much worry because Rodgers confirmed that he’s the best in the league. They missed a chance but if they had scored Rodgers would have got another so it didn’t matter. Another three points, another record. I wonder if anyone noticed?

Not really, is the answer to that one. I know there’s a good argument to keep it like this so there’s no pressure but just for once it would be nice to have some acknowledgment of how good this team is. It’s not too much to ask for, surely.