The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there.

Tunisia dug in to frustrate England in the second half but [Harry] Kane was the match-winner with a late header from Harry Maguire's flick, justice being done after referee Wilmar Roldan and the video assistant referee (VAR) had failed to spot him being wrestled to the ground twice in the penalty area.

For the time being, French troops withdrew from the north, trade on the Red River resumed, and Dai Nam remained independent, albeit in its reduced form.

I enjoyed the company of Jacques Delors, later to become a demon federast in the eyes of the Tory Right, rather more.