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The immobility of Burns's star, shining in spite of all risings and revolutions, is precisely what MacDiarmid wanrs ro rackle. Burns may have inspired the first line of A Drunk Man, but the gloomy star of the Burns cult now stands in the poem's way.

McGuire was lucky to escape a red card for a crude rackle on Mvondo Atangana when it seemed he was the last defender.

Embarrassingly, the resulting flash, c rackle and bang happened just as the waitress was at the table dishing out some very good bread.