In the sixth minute it was Keogh who came towards the ball, dragging centre-back Taylor Regan into midfield and leaving space in behind.
The plight of hard-working savers earning as little as 0.1% interest on money in banks and building societies was dragged centre-stage on Monday as the Conservative party unveiled proposals to abandon tax on savings for lower earners and raise allowances for pensioners.
By dragging a centre-back out wide, this also opened up spaces through the middle and Mitch Nichols made frequent runs forward from midfield.
Against Western Sydney, the front two of Keogh and Sidnei caused frequent problems, darting into channels and dragging reluctant centre-backs out wide in a 2-v-2 battle.
He generally seems well-intentioned about dragging the political centre of gravity away from the Thatcherite right, but appears to fear a lack of political space to do so.
England, as a unit, were laboured for long periods against Malta (ranked 176th in the world) and, when possession was surrendered in Slovenia (67th), tended to pinch in their wingers to clog up the centre, dragging Walcott inside into the clutter.
There was suddenly excitement down the left: clever movement inside from Coutinho, quick passing from Lallana, Firmino making sudden movements towards the ball to drag the centre-backs out of position.
The second goal perhaps best summed up their vulnerability, Mirko Vucinic dragging David Luiz from the centre and feeding a marauding Kwadwo Asamoah on the inside.
He proposed to do so by dragging it to the centre: by banging on less about the evils of immigration and the EU and embracing friendlier causes such as gay rights and environmentalism.
The comfort to which we clutch is this: that the government would be behaving a whole lot worse if it weren't for the Lib Dems dragging it to the centre.
The closest thing to anything from the Drones' past is the agonised To Think That I Once Loved You, which sits squarely in the album's centre without dragging it down.
