There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.

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You know faith really means that half of it believing that things are going to get better.

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Presumably believing time was up, the Ulster fly-half casually kicked the ball to the closest part of the touchline and thereby gifted the hosts an attacking line-out.

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But Alan Leighton, head of Prospect, felt Ferguson's apology had been "half-hearted" and is disappointed by the ruling, believing the authorities missed an opportunity to make a statement to back up the FA's Respect campaign.

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