Thomas Frank, the Brentford manager, is sitting in a meeting room next to his office on the first floor of the club's training ground when a colleague walks in with some news.
A man called Antonio Neill, who had racially abused striker Ivan Toney via social media last year, has been given a suspended jail sentence and a three-year ban from every football ground in the UK.
Frank tells the media later that he thinks the punishment is not strong enough but that at least it is a start. As he sits in this room, though, there is a wider issue playing on his mind: in recent months, Toney has been painted as an offender, not a victim.