For that matter, Eurogamers prefer games that allow them to feel that (a) winning is accomplished through superior strategy and (b) any random elements are peripheral and unlikely to affect outcomes strongly.

Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.

Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.

Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.