Now Crawley is up against a New Zealand team that gives him the creeps.

She continued: “He wears a ring on his pointer finger. It creeps me out.”

But the front line creeps ever closer, with Russia also threatening to encircle defenders from the north and west.

Emotion creeps into Gascón’s voice when he talks about what might happen if he loses.

“Once one neighborhood is surrounded by warehouses, then the investors will come, buy them out, and then it creeps up more and more and more,” Cervantes said.