McSheffrey's free-kick from the right wing fizzed across goal and in attempting to clear, Downing merely succeeded in shinning past his own keeper.

BBC: Birmingham 3-0 Middlesbrough

Where there were stricken Quebeckers, there was their premier, not chopping firewood or shinning up battered electricity pylons, maybe, but promising relief, handing out cheques and, of course, improving his own prospects of re-election.

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