20th - 23 points and a goal difference of -19. It's said that 50 points guarantees survival, though it is usually a little less than that. A point a game might be enough in a normal season where there haven't been multiple points deductions, yet we're not even managing that.

So, where would our record after 26 games have placed us in the league table at the time?

Over the previous 20 seasons we would have been outside the bottom 3 on only 5 occasions, meaning we would have been in the bottom 3 in 75% of the last 20 seasons. The most common position we would have found ourselves in is 22nd and, curiously perhaps, each time we were 1 point away from 21st.

We would have been bottom of the table on 1 occasion in 2006/07, some 4 points from safety. In 2001/02, we would have been 3 points clear of the bottom 3.

Not in any of the last 20 seasons would we have been as high as 20th.