Toni wasn’t (at first) sure if this was the follow-up to two weeks spent punching dead pigs in his Uncle’s frozen food warehouse. After pondering it for a short while he went back to his original thought that no, this was the route taken by the Croats.

It seems to be working a treat (if today’s result is anything to go on), although I can’t quite see little Luka Modric doing any of the Rocky business.

He has, instead, the haunted look of someone who who was (as a child) punched by pigs - not the other way round.