"Believe me when I tell you that we are going for it this time - we want to be successful in Europe, and the money we are raising now will take us there," Murray boasted of a team that, by then, contained Arthur Numan, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Mols.
"Things have changed a bit since my time," she adds, raising her eyebrows at two women, one black, one white, who wear nothing but discreet jewels between their legs and red feather head-dresses which trail down their backs.
Previously, every summer I would come back [and ask]: 'Am I going, am I staying?' But this has been about raising the levels of my game.
Many of these councils are coming because they have no other means of raising serious cash: three decades after Thatcher's rate caps, and four years into the most painful cuts faced by local government, they are flat broke.
Unlike Alistair Darling and his threat to increase national insurance, his Irish counterpart Brian Lenihan has resisted raising any direct taxes.
Cameron's 48-second message continued the Conservatives' campaign theme of raising the spectre of Miliband as prime minister propped up by the SNP.
Even as Mr Berlusconi rose to address the European parliament, seven Green MEPs protested, raising placards reading: "Everybody is equal under the law" - in reference to concerns that the Italian leader used his political influence to sidestep legal action over his business dealings.
The Luminaries is a similarly involving read – like a Wilkie Collins mystery set against the New Zealand gold rush – which slowly reveals a complex structure raising questions about fate, free will and the human search for meaning.
Over the following few years we struggled with the weight of raising a child between the camps.
