Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.

Hold it. What did you say his name was?

Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.

Their precise role in the interplay between itinerance and localisation, long known to underpin Mottness in d-band oxides, has however received much less attention.