It has been one astonishing 48 hours for football; on the one hand shambolic and shameful, on the other highly satisfying and redemptive.
Rarely has football been so united in its disgust and displeasure, with fans of rival clubs coming together in opposition to a European Super League concept that was shockingly ill-conceived and woefully launched.
Talk about misreading the room. How on earth did this cartel of mega-rich owners, motivated solely by lining their own pockets and to hell with the rest of football, ever hope to get away with it?
Bank accounts brimming with Wall Street cash, they sought to wrench a dozen or more of Europe's most famous clubs from their roots and into a cosy closed shop competition where there was no jeopardy, no prospect of failure and certainly no chance of financial oblivion.