If there's a worse version of this footballing summer than "the old season ending with a load of boring games in empty stadia and moves straight onto the next season but without the international tournament" then I'm not sure what it is.

But whatever, football is trudging on regardless and so must the threads.

Still, for those of you with sufficiently empty lives that this is the best turn of events there is even football on this very day for you, with Maine Road's FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round (?) match against Squires Gate being shown on the BBC red button at 7.45 tonight, for some reason or another.

Then comes the Nations League, which is admittedly better than international friendlies and features such box office clashes as Scotland against Israel, Iceland vs. England and Lithuania vs. Kazakhstan.

Then of course the Carabao Cup starts up again the Premier League which feels like it's barely finished grinds into motion once more and fucking hell does anybody actually need more football at this point?

EDIT: The poll title was supposed to end "forever." it's fitting that my poll title was in fact cut short prematurely when it seems football itself is going to go on uninterrupted for centuries.