YES, I know, I know. It’s happening at the wrong time of year in the wrong kind of place and we’ll doubtless end up with the wrong result.
But once it gets going, all that will be forgotten.
We’ll be watching and we’ll want to be watching it together.
Because – despite Fifa’s best efforts to mess things up – this is what football does and it’s what the World Cup does in spades.
And the great nation coming together is one aspect of this World Cup which could be really special, precisely because the timing is all wrong.