Included in hat report is the news that the owners have invested another £47 million in the past couple of months, partly to keep us onside with whichever rules we’re up against this week. It’s welcome, but they shouldn’t have to.

Chelsea have made a record even for them loss of £201 million. They’ll be able to carry on exactly as they like.

Here’s another surprise – Jadon Sancho’s bad shoulder will keep him out for another two or three weeks, Using the Villa Injury Calculator he’ll be back at the end of May.

Looking around the internationals it was a good night for Ollie Watkins who kept well out of it as England lost to Japan. Managers used to get slaughtered for results like that. Ezri Konsa and Morgan Rogers emerged unscathed. John McGinn played a few minutes for Scotland. Youri Tielemans and Amadou Onana played for Belgium against Mexico. Fingers were uncrossed as they all got back in one piece.

You shouldn’t laugh, but when your club trails “big news” for a certain day, what would you expect? New signings or stadium expansion plans? How about a big flag featuring pictures of a fictional character, a player who left you before he could vote and a vague resemblance to another player most famous for being sold, then losing to Blackburn Rovers? Long may they exist, because if they ever left us the word would have so much less merriment.

Joe Gauci, who went a lot further in the FA Cup than we did, gets plenty of practice for Port Vale against Chelsea.

Unai’s club Real Union have been promoted to the Primera Federación (the third division) and well done them. In less important football someone living on a rock in the Atlantic is surprised when Chelsea and Manchester City are kept apart in the FA Cup semi-final draw. He’s the only one.