The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.

A comparable method uses varves […] where spans of time can be measured through counting varves, and also by radiocarbon dating plant or animal residues within the varves.

The body, however, failed to alter the bare-knuckle politics governing the nominating convention.

1582, Robert Persons, S.J., The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution; quoted in: