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Old heroes back but bosses get new headaches
The Straits Times|December 25, 2022
The Premier League stopping and then restarting is not an unfamiliar scenario. Covid-19's enforced hiatus and Project: Restart during the 2019-2020 season saw to that.
- John Brewin
Old heroes back but bosses get new headaches

But this is the first time a World Cup has cleaved a season in half, though perhaps not the last, should Saudi Arabia's bid to host 2030's tournament be successful.

English domestic football restarted this week with the League Cup, and Thursday's meeting between Manchester City and Liverpool, a 3-2 win for Pep Guardiola's team, saw life as we may remember it from before Qatar 2022.

It was bad-tempered, the crowd was often rancorous and the match was played at a breakneck speed rarely viewed in the air-conditioned stadia of the Gulf state.

This story is from the December 25, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.

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