[…]it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither

Great opportunities lie ahead: we look forward to visiting a splendidiferous Mont Orgueil in twenty years time.

They certainly had their moments and will complain of ill-fortune, about a suspicion of handball before Tielemans' goal and those magnificent saves from Schmeichel but this was a stuttering Chelsea, not the smooth machine that saw off Real Madrid with such comfort in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge.

She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.