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.
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