Claire Peleschka is the landlady of The Griffin, one of four pubs that occupies each corner of the gloriously idiosyncratic Griffin Park, home to Brentford for five more games before the Sky Bet Championship club move to a new 17,000-seater stadium at Kew Bridge.

On Tuesday evening Brentford were due to do battle with West Bromwich Albion; two teams in the thick of a promotion race. The Griffin would have been packed to the rafters, fans spilling out on to the street, glasses in hand; the sound of brouhaha, the smell of beer in the air.

Fifteen hundred people, Claire says, would have passed through the doors and instead, after the suspension of football and the government advice to avoid pubs amid the growing coronavirus