Now is the time to do it, when the qualifying process is just beginning, so when the big tournament comes they have had enough exposure and experience to take it in their strides.
His England career, which began so inauspiciously when he was struck in the eye by a metal lipstick case flung from the stand in Tirana – the Albanian FA was subsequently fined £2,000 – has been a prolonged exercise in excellence even if it has not delivered the glittering trophies of his club employment.
They knew that "Jungle Exit" was only the beginning, so when Bachara offered to produce their record in his studio, Lafawndah flew straight to Guadalupe no questions asked.
Her many name changes began, so the story goes, when her brother had trouble pronouncing "sister" and settled for "Sid".
It began, so the story went, when Jacob Beam, the son of a German immigrant, started selling the corn-whiskey recipe created by his father.
I don't know when it began, so peculiarly subtle is the feeling that the most likely outcome is the really bad one.
When evictions began so the renovations could take place, one family was allowed to remain, thus insuring that seven thousand years of settlement would continue uninterrupted.
The script was still unfinished when cinematography began, so that Wyler had only read the first 10 to 12 pages of it.
One major complication was that the design for the turrets and their magazines was not completed when construction began so their weights and dimensions had to be estimated.
A scraggle-haired, doe-eyed, flip-flopped bride at just 18, as soon as she said "I do" in Las Vegas in 2001 she abandoned her faltering pop career, which had begun so promisingly when she became the youngest artist to debut at number one in the UK singles chart with Because We Want To at 15.
