It’s that moving time of the year when we tearfully bid farewell to another football season and another football season tearfully bids farewell to us in the only way it knows how: by sending the players back on to the pitch after their last home game to perform a “lap of appreciation”.
Or, to use the statutory adjective, a “traditional lap of appreciation” – traditional here referring to a practice that stretches back at least, ooh, seven or eight years now, but has its own set of customs and rituals, as nailed-down as Christmas.
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