Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.

The engine or steamer is blowing off.

It tried one's nerves to look on the rack that had pulled men to pieces, on the iron lady which opened in front and then embraced and crushed her victim with sharp spikes, and on the sword that had cut off hundreds of heads.

If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.