I left the room after John came home drunk but before the fireworks went off.

Yinti was perishing for a drink of water. He fell down on the sand, and put his mouth to the coolamon.

Hidgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.

Dinna forespeak them, woman! dinna forespeak them! said the man with a dark frown, and with equal earnestness, but with a tinge of superstitious alarm in his voice and manner. They wud fain hae your good word, an' no your evil tongue with them; and so come, good wife, tell us what ken ye—what's biding them?—come, what have they to do?