It’s never a good sign when a club is forced to apologize for an “embarrassment of a pitch” after the first home game of a league campaign. It’s an even worse sign when no one bats an eyelid when that happens. Because, well, you get used to it after a while. So badly are Bohemians run that they were the only club pushing Mladá Boleslav for the worst fan ratings in my first year of doing this exercise, finishing comfortably behind even Slovácko. So badly are Bohemians run that the coach had to cite Petr Mirvald as a counterargument to the (well-deserved) suggestions that ‘Klokani’ don’t scout, praising his “conditioning” above all else. The sole point after two games is arguably the least of their bad news.

Last summer, all the talk centred around Ďolíček and how the Jakubowicz family plans to take things in their own hands; two years on from what proved to be a frustratingly empty promise by Prague’s town hall, the owner of the iconic stadium. In winter, all that anyone was interested about was Ďolíček again, with a new 60-year-old lease announced in November. An hour-long press conference then laid down the concrete vision for a new arena in December, followed by some enticing visuals revealed in May. It’s all moving forth at a neck-breaking pace; in sharp contrast to progress, or lack thereof, on the pitch.