The United midfielder should really find Tevez free in the centre, but his ball rolled across from the left wing goes behind the Argentinian striker, and Murphy - a very livid Murphy, it has to be said - is able to clean up.
The rest of the half was exciting but also undeniably desperate as long passages of play swept back and forth: when England had a couple of half-breaks by Mike Brown on the left wing they went unfinished.
Then O'Driscoll hobbled off injured – with the semi-final hero Ian Madigan replacing him – before Russell punished Mike McCarthy's high tackle with a superb strike from the left wing that went over off the right-hand post.
However, an ankle injury to the full-back Paul Wellens in the 35th minute led to a back-line reshuffle in which Calderwood switched to the left wing, Lee Smith went to full-back and Paul Sykes moved out from right centre to the flank.
Two Goode penalties either side of another from Burns put Wasps on the scoreboard but, when left wing Goneva went in at the left corner, although the kick was missed, Leicester now led 18-6.
37 Danish left wing parties went to the polls in 2011 promising the same but changed their minds shortly after gaining power.
Challenging prejudices on the left wing is going to be all the more difficult because, incredibly, the British left in the second decade of the 21st century is led by men steeped in the worst traditions of the 20th.
Despite being predominantly right-footed and utilized as a right-sided midfielder during his development years in France, since establishing himself as an international and at Bayern, Ribéry has personally admitted that his preference is to play on the left wing even going as far as to state "My place is on the left" when asked at a February 2010 media session while on international duty.
He hit our left wing mirror and went into our mechanic as he crashed.
And in the 65th minute, Rapinoe entered on the left wing and Lloyd went to the bench.
