The Premier League is back in less than two weeks and, well, that’s just absolutely mental, isn’t it? We’ve all known about this for years now but the absurd reality of this instantaneous mid-season turnaround from World Cup to club football is really hitting home now. Either Hugo Lloris or Cristian Romero are two days away from becoming world champion and 10 days away from a Premier League game at Brentford. It’s not normal.
“Absolutely gutted. We’ve given it everything and it’s come down to a small detail which I take responsibility for. There’s no hiding from it, it hurts and it’ll take some time to get over it but that’s part of sport.”
Harry Kane there, completing the now-mandatory social media mea culpa that all sportsmen and women must issue after not quite doing their jobs as perfectly as required. It’s pretty standard boilerplate stuff, really – we’d imagine these things are or soon will be composed by one of those AI doodads they have now to suck the last vestiges of creative joy from an increasingly bleak, dystopian world – but there’s one phrase that jumps out.
“…it’ll take some time to get over…”
Yes, you’d imagine it will. Tough shit, though, Harry, because you don’t have any of that. The Best League in the World is back in 10 days’ time and you’d best be ready.
It really is quite galling how well this World Cup has worked. We all got distracted by the shiny thing, didn’t we? Another winter World Cup is now an inevitability, with Saudi Arabia an absolute shoo-in to have one within the next 12 years. They’ve certainly got more sporting claim to it than Qatar, having qualified for six of the last eight World Cups, making them precisely as good at football as Netherlands or Italy.
And we totally forgot about the Premier League, didn’t we? Oh sure, we’ve had some tribalist opinions on this player or that fraud, and transfer stories linking Liverpool and only Liverpool with any midfielder who’s just had an eye-catching game for Morocco or whoever at The Big Shiny Thing, but we’ve not really thought about club football for weeks now.
So distracted have we been that all sorts of misinformation is out there now. Someone was claiming on Twitter just yesterday that Arsenal are five points clear at the top of the table. I mean, that can’t be right, can it? It certainly doesn’t sound right. Fact check, please! Then there was some far-fetched talk about Wolves’ manager being Julen…
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