Ezri Konsa’s been spoken to about kicking off at Wolves. No doubt he’s sorry and it won’t happen again.

Wolves, meanwhile get a last-minute winner at home to Liverpool which is good. It sets us up nicely for Chelsea the night after.

We’re apparently playing a match in Hong Kong against Bayern Munich in August. if we beat them again we can keep them. In other money news we’ve officially filed the change of women’s team ownership; 90% to NSWE, 10% some American company. And our new super-fan Sharon Osbourne has said there’ll be a two-day Ozzfest at Villa Park in the summer.

Apparently Palace have to sign Evann Guessand if he makes eight goal involvements this season, whatever they are. If only we had the same sort of contract for the players we brought in.

The women’s team have sacked assistant coach Shaun Goater, to the amazement of everyone who didn’t know he was working for them.

The scene was set for a performance to put us back on track and I daresay everyone was up for it. Then the team was announced; we’ve seen enough mystifying line-ups to realise Unai knows more than any of us but this wasn’t one of them. We started off alright and Douglas Luiz put us a goal up inside two minutes with the help of Leon Bailey and that was as good as it got. They equalised, we could have gone back into the lead when Ollie Watkins put the ball away and VAR duly interfered. In first half stoppage time they scored, there was a VAR check and the goal duly stood.

There was a second half but it’s best forgotten. They scored twice, we barely touched the ball that often and the only reason to stay until the end was to avoid getting caught in the traffic. It wasn’t a good night and that singing section wasn’t worth setting up. Unai’s got to sort this out.

Matty Cash is injured, just for a change. Unai reckons John McGinn will be ready in a couple of weeks.

Tyrone Mings gives an interview in which he says a lot, most of it diplomatically, and reckons the problem is that we’re not allowed to spend as much as other clubs. It’s hardly a revelation but the more it’s said, the more it might sink in somewhere.

Nas Sawiris is to become chairman of Adidas, which sounds like the sort of job that won’t leave him short. Adidas Villa Park has a certain ring to it.

It turns out that we haven’t signed Brian Madjo (the giant seventeen year old – remember?) because of some FIFA regulation that prohibits signing players from other countries before they’re eighteen. It might be a daft rule but why we didn’t know about it is another matter.