Taylor, who had replaced Kris Doolan just after the half-hour, was through on goal six minutes before the break following a defensive mix-up between Ashton Taylor and Mark Reynolds, but his lob over Jamie Langfield trundled wide of the post.
They hurled themselves into tackles that were easily sidestepped by their opponents, whose greater poise was summed up by the sumptuous Kiss lob that made the score 8-1.
Neymar was inches away from converting Messi's brilliant chip with a first-time lob but it went just wide.
With John O'Shea and Santiago Vergini falling into defensive pieces, Bolasie proceeded to shoot beneath Costel Pantilimon and then lob Sunderland's goalkeeper before squeezing his final shot inside a post.
Charlie was gregarious; he morris-danced and taught us how to lob a rotten apple (on the end of a pruning saw, it curve-balls perfectly and hits the unexpected in a great splatter).
If I've got a kid who's about to lob a chair at me it's a no brainer that I need to physically intervene or leave the room.
Few expect the Bank governor, Mark Carney, to lob anything as inconvenient as a rate rise at Chancellor George Osborne this side of a general election – but some of his colleagues are growing impatient.
Seven days after his side missed out on automatic promotion to the Championship following an agonising loss at Colchester United, Beckford's volley and incredible lob from near the halfway line helped Preston to a 3-0 victory and 4-0 aggregate success.
Although Sadio Mané headed over from close range halfway through the first half, and dispatched a 25-yard lob that Kasper Schmeichel did well to tip over midway through the second, the truth was that Southampton were in a lower gear.
It was welcome, as well as expected, that Mrs Clinton would lob her hat into the ring.
The pick of the bunch was a 25-yard rocket in a 1-0 win over Everton and it was Zamora who condemned Arsenal to their first defeat at the Emirates when his lob caught Jens Lehmann off his line.
