If you had never thought of Tracey Crouch and Mao Tse-Tung as ideological bedfellows before, then the Premier League invite you to think again.
The impression the eager Premier League hit squad conveyed was that even though Crouch might look and act like a highly competent, widely respected, unusually principled MP and former sports minister who had just released a set of cogent proposals arising from a fan-led review into English football, she was, in fact, a secret agent of the Comintern, the spawn of Satan and an existential threat to life on earth.
Christian Purslow, the chief executive of Aston Villa, wagged his finger and bade us beware the plans for an independent regulator, a golden share for fans and a transfer tax.