At the top of the half-time interval right here, referee Simon Hooper stood on the sting of the centre circle, arm aloft and waited to restart the sport. No one else, although, appeared overly , teams of gamers huddled in informal dialog finally, reluctantly, trudging again to the imprecise areas of the pitch the place you would possibly look forward to finding a Manchester United left-back or a West Ham centre-half. Do that yet again? Well alright, however provided that we should.