Anything he writes is going to be forced, compelled - and with his forced fingers rude he violates the formal prosodic, the metrical, scheme of his elegy at its very opening.
Ferguson's side finally showed something like their best attacking play when Tevez forced an opening down the right wing, but Wayne Rooney dallied too long on his shot and the chance came and went.
Vettel, who sits third behind England's Button and Brazil's Barrichello in the drivers' championship, was forced to end his opening session early after smoke came from his car, but he finished sixth, 0.604secs off the pace, in the afternoon.
