Both parties will be cheered and jeered, pilloried on social media and discussed in comment pieces. They will be tagged as traitors, as heroes, as woke virtue signallers or knuckle-dragging neanderthals.

Even before the Covid-19 crisis struck, the Shrimpers faced a winding-up order and repeatedly failed to pay their players on time. Then there’s the vast, affluent catchment area they have failed to activate.