England's World Cup hopes are, sadly, already over because they are going out in the quarter-finals to eventual winners Brazil, it says here.

We have every Premier League transfer that has been or will be completed this summer. There's more than you think already.

We're all still supposed to accept that squad numbers are a new concept to be grappled with and that a FIFA announcement is a 'leak'.

FIFA are destroying international football and the World Cup is a high-profile victim; there's not a lot of giddiness here.

However uneasy we might be feeling about this World Cup, we urgently need the matches to get going now to save us all from terrible content.