Loftus-Cheek's lack of sharpness can be explained by playing only 33 minutes for his club this season - but he still clearly has a lot of work to do to convince Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri of his worth and that will also have a knock-on effect and consequences for his England career.
Maybe it was no more than a knock-on effect, driven by a law of unintended consequences, almost guaranteeing that politicians' best-laid plans will somehow unravel.
That has a knock-on effect.
"But there is a knock-on effect.
Which is exactly the kind of serious, knock-on consequence that's possible when unproven 'disruptive' technologies change existing dynamics and bring new pressures to bear on a critical and sensitive industry like healthcare.
The loss of the sharks from Florida could lead to a series of knock-on consequences for a marine ecosystem that has developed with them as major predator.
Now that most people carry computers in their pockets which can keep them connected with each other, know where they are, understand their social network and so on, the transaction costs involved in finding people to do things can be pushed a long way down.This has a range of knock-on consequences, all of which are becoming key features of the on-demand economy.
Greece certainly has the potential to damage the global economy, but only if it leaves the eurozone in a disorderly manner, with knock-on consequences first for the single currency area and then the wider world.
The economy is going to expand less rapidly and from a lower starting point, with knock-on consequences for the exchequer in the form of lower tax receipts.
It seems extraordinarily naive to suppose that on the basis of a few months of consultation, in a very short space of time, you can radically change the basic way in way academics communicate with each other without having a huge number of unintended knock-on consequences.
Much as people still seemed to want us to, there were big knock-on consequences for the ones we love".
