To others, it is an expensive bobble to be flashed in the board room or country club.

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The 32-year-old looked to be coasting towards his 30th Test century but flashed at an off-cutter that was never there to be hit.

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The press flirted with phrases like "slow down, " excited to be able to add a little spice to the economic numbers they flashed up every night.

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First he flew into a clumsy challenge on Callum Woods, for which he was fortunate not to be booked, then, having flashed a low shot across goal, he was on the receiving end of a crack on the shin from the Pars player he had up-ended.

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The "slide for emergency" slider flashed through different languages while it was waiting to be plugged in again.

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"No one flashed a message to me that this is going to be the most important day of my life, " Woodward recalled in the documentary.

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Hooper was not to be denied though, and, shortly after, he peeled off Diamond and flashed a back post header past Langfield.

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This drew a scornful response from Pakistan's high commission in London, not least because the raids were compromised by a senior British policeman who clumsily flashed plans of the arrests to a bank of photographers, forcing the operation to be brought forward by a day.

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