All of course true - but who's to say how much better of we'd have been across the whole commercial and playing boards without this huge distraction and detraction. Extremely hard to quantify.
As we get nearer and nearer to an inevitable crunch time and the baying mob voices are raised higher - it must have some negative effect. Can't just dismiss it as inane ramblings and the product of echo chambers of nonsense - the charges are real, the publicity is on the whole negative, questions have even been asked in Parliament.
Haaland was indeed a coup - but lets not dismiss his Dad's input and that they must have known any punishment was many months off.