If a week in politics is a long time, a week in football can be an eternity.
There was a general feeling of well-being at Leicester City at the start of the season despite all the troubles the club found itself in.
Pre-season under Andy King had looked good with better performances on show, and the players remembering how to pass the ball. We also rediscovered that there were two halves to a football pitch, with the team under Ruud Van Nistelrooy hardly venturing over the halfway line.
New boss Marti Cifuentes arrived with a welcome that even the second coming might not generate, and we went on to beat a top-six Italian side facing European competition this season.