It has been a frustrating season on and off the pitch for West Brom

Before the international break — while West Ham United were losing to Burnley and the mood was turning nasty at the London Stadium, with one fan stabbing a corner flag into the centre circle — a toddler found himself wandering lost on the playing surface at the Hawthorns. While it was an accidental pitch invasion, after the home side had been beaten by Leicester City, it just about summed up West Bromwich Albion’s season.

If the supporters did want to organise a revolt, they would not be entirely certain who should be the object of their anger. So many mistakes have been made that it is not hyperbole to label the campaign as calamitous.

It has been a season of broken curfews, a hijacked taxi,