The World Cup finished at least five minutes ago so that can only mean one thing: The English Premier League season is about to crank into action once more.
OK, so it has actually been a month since festivities in South Africa came to a close, but either way there hasn’t been a whole lot of respite for exhausted players, nerve-shredded fans and yes, a weary soccer writer who can scarcely believe that it’s mid-August already.