India, May 29 -- To the country whose league Pep Guardiola, Mo Salah and Casemiro have left and where Virgil van Dijk became the oldest to play every minute, India arrived depleted and distraught.

Khalid Jamil's men flew to London on the final day of the Premier League. Two days earlier, England announced their World Cup squad. (Be it Thomas Tuchel naming his men or Stephen Colbert signing off, isn't it amazing that The Beatles continues to be a point of reference?).

In the debate around Harry Maguire's exclusion and everything else that happened - Michael Jordan wishing Guardiola "good luck on the links", Erling Haaland winning the Premier League's golden boot for the third time in four seasons (27 goals), Bruno Fernandes's war of word...