There is no reason why they will not become lasting fixtures of Scottish media.
England will play Les Chanticleers in Wigan after advancing past Fiji 34-12 last weekend, setting up a last-eight fixture against Richard Agar's side who suffered defeat by Samoa on Monday night.
A last-eight fixture against Spain could be looming and, if so, Hodgson's thinking is that he will need the industry of a fresh James Milner to negate the threat of Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández.
The Real Madrid attacker, 27, has scored three goals in Portugal's last two games to guide his team to a last-four fixture in Ukraine on Wednesday.
Hampden will host three group matches and a last 16 fixture as Uefa take the tournament across Europe to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first European Championship.
Given their last fixture ended in a 6-1 defeat, would a 5-1 loss be regarded as an improvement?
England have won the last game between the sides (a 2-1 win in Berlin in 2008), the last competitive fixture (that 5-1 in 2001), and the last fixture in a major tournament (1-0 at Euro 2000).
We may only be in late September, but both teams displayed the desperate ambition of men playing as if the title hung in the balance with just a few seconds left of the last fixture.
This was Warrington's third game in nine days, while the Giants had enjoyed a nine-day gap since their last fixture.
In a non-first-class match against Durham, the last fixture before the Fifth Test, Ring made an unbeaten single as Australia scored 282.
The highlight of Tallon's season was his highest first-class score of 193, against Victoria in Brisbane, in the last fixture of the season, a match in which he also took five catches in an innings.
