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Sometimes all, as with one consent, suspended their by-play to observe and listen to the principal actors: for, after all, Mr. Rochester and—because closely connected with him—Miss Ingram were the life and soul of the party.

Except that the man in the middle of the latest Concacaf shenanigans, the unfortunate Mark Geiger, is not one of the usual suspects in the kind of by-play that the confederation has been associated with in recent years.

To offset this, I’d dream up a Yankee and/or Giant game and channel the play–by-play call after Bob Sheppard’s introductions and the national anthem.

Between these teams, the by-play, the needles, the paybacks, are building.

Hodgson got the open part of the session under way with a swift clap of the hands and an arm around Raheem Sterling before a piece of by-play with Sir Trevor Brooking as he walked laps of the training pitch.