Italy's 3-2 win over Brazil, after twice going behind and featuring a Paolo Rossi hat-trick, remains among the greatest of all World Cup matches.
Whether Warrington make that a hat-trick remains to be seen over the next fortnight but they will be only too aware that they were one of the three anomalies in that record when they last finished top in 2011.
So the grand bilateral bargain that the Dear Leader has long wanted aid, full recognition and security guarantees in return for giving up his box of nuclear tricks—remains as remote as ever.
The keynote address here is clearly Tom Joad, no longer a ghost of a song, but a fully fleshed beast on which Springsteen and Morello swap both guitar parts and sung verses; Morello performs his vinyl-scratch party trick, which remains electrifying 20 years on.
But the trick that remains is to gather, combine and analyze data from myriad sources – social interactions, behavioral data, expert opinions – and deliver it back to the user in a way that makes decision-making more efficient than most of us can imagine.
But any manager who's recruited regularly knows that, even with those tricks, hiring remains perhaps the business world's biggest gamble.
But Stan Mortensen's hat-trick, which remains the only treble in an FA Cup final at Wembley, and Bill Perry's late winner sealed an astonishing comeback.
But Mr Mackay's experience of tough, emerging and bureaucratic markets eventually triumphed.Whether he can pull off the same trick in China remains to be seen.
For a 2004 work, "Camel," he commissioned silversmiths in Agadez, Niger, to cast sixteen smallish orbs, filling each, in a ship-in-a-bottle-like trick, with the remains of an entire dromedary.
