The week in Fantasy Premier League: International break woes and the search for the best third striker

If you were merely bored during the international break, you were one of the lucky ones.

By Tuesday night, the island of Ireland was united in the shared misery of a World Cup exit - those of us south of the border were even denied the traditional scurrilous injustice to comfort ourselves with.

So now that all that unpleasantness is behind us, it’s time to open up our FPL teams again - and for many, it’s not a pretty sight.