Football is a sport of fantasy, ferocity, failure, fun and phenomenal talent. So when a season ends the normal, reassuring, thing would be to immediately reach for adjectives to help us appreciate Zinedine Zidane's majesty, the brilliance of Karim Benzema, Lionel Messi's misery, another Monchi project which wins A+ marks or tall tales of how Leganes tried to defy all the odds and fought like tigers against harsh circumstances which would have daunted "The Jungle Book's" Shere Khan himself.
Instead, there's something more important to say first. And that is: "Thank you.