There was no such defiance, no charge over the barricade, from Jol. As his sat in the Upton Park dugout, disappearing into his oversized bench coat, he watched his team do as they have done all season: play good football badly. There was no effort to change the defence, forever on the back foot and losing their markers; there was no decision to help Kieran Richardson, a left-back who is repeatedly targeted, with the selection of the attack-minded Damien Duff. There was no real midfield, no balance between graft and finesse and no notion of playing to Darren Bent’s strengths (a striker who likes running onto the ball, yet had just one touch in the box).