HELLO, how’s your week been? We’ve been going through some of my late dad’s stuff, including old football programmes, as I gear up for a (very) early Saturday morning drive to Liverpool, for the lunchtime kick-off between Everton and Arsenal. 

I have to underline we’ve not been treating the task in a morbid way, viewing every possession as if it were the Turin shroud itself.

No, far from it. There’s a time for grieving and a time for being practical. The two aren’t mutually exclusive of course, and the freight train of grief can strike at any time.