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Difficult as it now is to summon up much enthusiasm for what remains of this slow-motion train crash of a season, it ploughs on regardless, with Manchester United the next team in the queue to heap misery on us. Chasing their first title since 2013 - the year that Lukaku spoiled their victory party at the Hawthorns - they come down the M6 less than a fortnight after dishing out a 9-0 shoeing to Southampton. Romelu may be long gone, but you'd get decent odds on another ten-goal thriller this Sunday, just as long as you didn't share the goals out quite as evenly as they were last time.

We gave them a run for their money at Old Trafford in the autumn, even with the ref on their side, but this weekend it's just a question of avoiding a Valentine's Day Massacre. Anything else is a bonus, to use the phrase that's in danger of becoming our club motto.