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Musiy is deeply familiar with unstable living conditions, starting with his childhood in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine during the second world war.

England’s unbeaten sequence in qualifiers extends to 41 matches since that game in Dnepropetrovsk but it certainly came as a surprise when Marko Vesovic capitalised on some iffy defending to gave the home nation a 17th-minute lead.

It provided pictures of the painting hanging in an exhibit at the Dnepropetrovsk in 1929, when it was the Ekaterinoslav City Art Museum.

Now, she had learned that a painting she had on her wall had been looted from the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum in Ukraine.

That occasion was October 2009, Fabio Capello’s team going down 1-0 to Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk, and to put it into context the national team have had three different full-time managers since that point and another in temporary charge.