As Scotland has bowed out of two of the three main international education surveys, it is a challenge to offer a clear picture of the current state of playin school education, apart from exam results.
Blamed for our very refusal to play a bigger role in the civic realm apart from once every lustrum or so milling around the polling booth with the rest of the extras.
Apart from Sir Richard Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim in the original cast, the play goes against West End tradition, making a point of not signing big names.
The only black spot in the opening 45 minutes for United - apart from not capitalising fully on their outstanding approach play - was a yellow card for Tevez after he collided with Almunia in a chase for possession.