If you were merely bored during the international break, you were one of the lucky ones.
By Tuesday night, the island of Ireland was united in the shared misery of a World Cup exit - those of us south of the border were even denied the traditional scurrilous injustice to comfort ourselves with.
So now that all that unpleasantness is behind us, it’s time to open up our FPL teams again - and for many, it’s not a pretty sight.
One thing worthy of note for FPL managers during the break, however (what hat-trick?) was the array of fresh young faces amongst the England team.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the club performances of Tammy Abraham (SWA, 5.9), Joe Gomez (LIV, 4.6), Harry Maguire (LEI, 5.1) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (CRY, 4.5) over the coming months as they do everything they can to be included among next summer’s scapegoats and national hate figures.
The Man City soap opera rumbled on as it became the turn of Gabriel Jesus (MCI, 10.5) to make way for Sergio Aguero (MCI, 11.8) against Arsenal, only to come off the bench and score anyway because that’s what Man City players do these days.
Then another unconventional injury befell Aguero in the form of a fainting incident - cue EastEnders drums - before the Argentine's proclamation of fitness quelled the latest bout of panic selling.
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