Even more importantly: the psychoanalytic method of showing him the origins of his “imprinting” would hardly help unimprint him; […]

He disguised his true intentions.

The radio, however, was most pervertly used during the expulsion of Asians in 1972 when news broadcasts carried daily statements on their fate.

Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.