The news that League One Bradford City’s joint chairman Edin Rahic is expected to leave the club will likely only be celebrated by their embattled fanbase once the departure they have spent many months calling for is sealed definitively.

Much has happened to the club, which reached the 2013 League Cup final as a League Two team, since its relegation from the top flight in 2001. They dropped like a stone and in 2007 landed in League Two, still cash-strapped from maxing out every credit card going during their lads’ holiday to the Premier League at the turn of the millennium. There were two administrations during that time and they woke up in the bottom tier as all of us do after headier days: hungover and terrified of checking their bank balance.

It took them six attempts to reach League One but they did so in 2013 under Phil Parkinson. Two years later, two German investors, Rahic and Stefan Rupp, paid £5million for a 100 per cent buyout.

Parkinson was so perturbed by whatever their vision looked like that he willingly jumped ship to a Bolton side entrenched in off-field calamity. Three years and five head coaches later, Bradford are currently bottom of League One with the worst record of any club in the four professional divisions over this calendar year.