This is a column that starts with a funny story from a time when there was not much to smile about.
We were still under Covid lockdown restrictions in 2020 when I was granted an interview with Graham Potter, manager of Brighton at the time.
It was not the first time we had spoken but even so there was some panic on my side of the Zoom call as I sat in my home office watching a Manchester storm batter the window and realised I had locked my fiancee and two-year-old daughter out of the house.