PRESUMABLY, there was somebody in Islington Council’s communications department whose wise counsel was ignored, an aide who asked: Do you really want to send this… to him?

But send it she did – the Mayor of Islington, no less, writing in to this newspaper to question and dismiss my view that Liverpool may win the league this season but aren’t that good.

Councillor Anjna Khurana is the woman with the ceremonial chains this year, a Liverpool fan deep in Arsenal territory and sending me “YNWA” messages as her team heads to a title win very much by default.

But – aha! – no sooner had her message been buzzed this way, Liverpool decided to underline everything I had said by crumbling in a penalty shootout to Paris St Germain in the Champions League and then surrendering meekly in the Carabao Cup final to Newcastle United.

The search party remains out for Mo Salah, who we were told was in the Wembley area on Sunday but it’s a far-fetched theory on the evidence available.

Don’t forget that they also went out to Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup.

Of course, any Liverpool supporter who reads this column or the one from last month – including Islington’s first citizen – will respond with the claim that these are the thoughts of a bitter Arsenal fan whose team aren’t good enough.

In doing so, they only prove the point that Liverpool had no opposition in a league where the so-called big teams have all been awful or stricken with injuries.

Yes, Arsenal haven’t been very good and it’s been criminal for the Gunners not to sign a striker to two, but that only highlights how Liverpool could be only average or mildly good and still win the league.

Any teams – it happened to be Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth – could have emerged from the mess the Premier League has been this season to finish high.

This isn’t shock jock controversy for controversy sake. Nobody surely will hold up the current Liverpool team in the same vein as Man United’s treble winners, Arsenal’s Invincibles or City’s Centurions.

As it happens, we should be happy for Cllr Khurana.

The basic request for the season at the start for most of us was “anybody but City”. When we say anybody we don’t mean Spurs, Chelsea or United, but you get the gist.

Liverpool have thankfully broken an ugly, financially-doped stranglehold this season and City are in the mud, even if only temporarily.

That’s something to celebrate, but don’t think that makes this year’s winners ones for the hall of fame.