Jacob Tanswell in The Athletic has a long diatribe about the lack of atmosphere down the match and how it can be improved. As if by magic the club in their wisdom are doing something about it – we’re going to have a singing section. Yes, fifty seats in the North Stand Lower will be allocated to young ruffians to stand and make noise and generally disturb the peace of those of us who want to doze away in peace.

Why not go the whole way while you’re at it and let them bring in a drum? And big flags? And call ourselves Crystal Palace? Or alternatively, and this might be a radical solution but bear with me, how about dropping a few prices, stop putting tourists before long-standing supporters and play a few more matches on a Saturday afternoon?

In happier news, the BRIT awards take place and Villa get a mention for the first time since Nigel Kennedy, courtesy of someone named Kelly Osbourne, whose dad was apparently from Aston.

The longest cup draw of all time is eventually over and we’re playing Lille again. Emiliano Martinez will be pleased.

It was raining in Wolverhampton on Friday, which is no surprise. It could rain in Wolverhampton during a drought; it’s that kind of town. The sheer misery of the inhabitants has been worsened this season by watching their dreams of world domination crumbling, to be replaced by the reality of foreign trips to Wrexham and Cardiff. Being good neighbours, we brightened up their drab existence for a few hours by providing one of the most diabolically inept performances for years; it was certainly the worst since the arrival of Unai. The team he picked had a few definitely last chances in it as well as a couple who should never have been given a chance at all.

If the plan was to soak up the early pressure then bring on subs to win the game, nobody told the players and when the first changes were made the only result was a Wolves goal. We had a shot kicked off the line in stoppage time so to complete the evening they went straight down and got their second then to round it all off Ezri Konsa got into a row with some of our supporters. In a place where Noddy Holder is both musical icon and style guru they’ll be talking about this one for years to come.

Afterwards come the magic words of Damian Vidagany: “Unai and the boys will make us raise again and when that happen and we hopefully celebrate together, we won’t remind this night. We win together and we lose together.” So there.

More on Harvey Elliott, courtesy of Christian Purslow; basically he was signed by Monchi and if we want any help from Liverpool over his contract we can think on.