“Without going out of your door, you can know all things on earth.”

George Harrison may have had more transcendental matters in mind, but in many ways the meditative moptop could have been singing about the advent of National League TV.

Hello, it’s good to be back. I don’t mean me – although it has been a while – but the football season and hence the welcome resumption of normal service. Despite decades of practice, football’s close season is a tricky beast to negotiate.