The booking ultimately appeared to be a well-earned one for the team and Pickford seemed to revel in his big moment, jumping up and down on his line, sticking his tongue out before stooping low to his right to push the ball away.

Fixing, schmoozing and scheming behind the scenes, the spin doctor who seemed to revel in his nickname the "Prince of Darkness".

“We adults have persuaded ourselves that this is one of the bonuses of being a child, that you can revel in magical creatures. But there isn’t much evidence that children are predisposed to magical thinking.”

On Monday morning, at a public event announcing a new $100bn US investment pledge by a Japanese conglomerate, Donald Trumpov appeared to revel in the breadth of his support.

Physical endurance was another theme of the Eras tour, which isn’t to say that Swift didn’t want you to see her sweat; instead, she seemed to revel in the demonstration of her hard work, nowhere more so than in an outraged “But Daddy I Love Him,” which she sang with her damp hair matted to her face like Bruce Springsteen rounding the final bend of “Jungleland.”