You’re right, it would be ridiculous and ultimately fairly meaningless to go back to previous seasons and strip them of past honours. They already had the parties, the open-top buses, the ‘Agueroooooo’ moments, altering the record books years later is no real punishment.

All points deductions are a logistical nightmare and it’s depressing when league positions will become decided as much by matters off the pitch as on it. And relegating the likes of City and Chelsea would just make a nonsense of the Championship for a season giving other teams no hope of automatic promotion.

These are financial crimes, there should be financial punishments. Significant fines - like equivalent to the levels of overspending - maybe even payable to other clubs in the league to help level the playing field - are much better than footballing ones. They gained an advantage by overspending, they should now be disadvantaged financially as a result.