"But all the vocal pyrotechnics and technical know-how on offer can't put right the vapidity at the core of a plot that could have been written on the back of an interval drinks order, " wrote Matt Wolf of The Arts Desk.

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An app on his iPhone sets the camera to take interval shots.

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United went into the interval piling on the pressure in search of an equaliser and started the second half in the same manner.

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Sunderland hung on and were rewarded with an equaliser three minutes after the interval as Jones rose to head Liam Miller's cross past Almunia.

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It was a standing joke in the commentary box that his arrival on the air would coincide with a drinks interval, an injury to a player, a break for bad light or a drought of run-scoring.

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Back came the hosts and they came close to an equaliser soon after the interval as Samba nodded on a long throw and would have found the net had it not been for the well-positioned substitute Yuri Zhirkov, who cleared the danger from the line.

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Scotland failed to take a grip after the interval, and McLeish elected to bring on Scott Brown for Teale in an attempt to freshen the midfield.

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Here was the full horror of a relationship that both relied on chance meetings and was subject to utter estrangement: what you could miss in an interval.

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Gerardo Martino's team also worked extremely hard to thwart Spain's passing game and looked extremely dangerous on the counter, with the lively Valdez wasting a decent position with an atrocious shot just before the interval after a sharp break.

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