51�Թ�

The one‑time Chelsea chief scout and Hamburg technical director did not enjoy the internal politics on Wearside and jokingly, or maybe half‑jokingly, claimed he might have been better off taking up a job he had been offered with Metallist Kharkiv in Ukraine.

When Ms. Savchenko was first detained in a prison in Voronezh, near the Ukrainian border, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, said that she had been involved in attacks on Russian separatists in Luhansk, Ukraine, and in a battle near the town of Metallist where the Russian journalists were killed.

Sound engineer Anton Voloshin was killed on the spot near the village of Metallist while reporter Igor Kornelyuk died in hospital.

It means Senegal have just two of the three permitted over-age players in their squad - West Ham United midfielder Mohamed Diame, 25, and Papa Gueye, 28, of Metallist Kharkiv in Ukraine.

The Spider, as Metallist's stadium is nicknamed, features a running track, but their distance from the playing surface did nothing to diminish the ardour of the two sets of supporters, although the balance tilted during the course of the evening as the German fans glimpsed the outline of future champions while the Dutch feared that they were looking at the ghosts of the side they hoped to be cheering to another final.