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We can’t go on rallying only for each successive crisis or onstage moment — a post-riot rebuilding, a library fire, the Olympics — and then claim to be a great city in between.

That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled – and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.

Who can stop Surrey lifting a fourth successive title?

He has overseen eight matches with the United States but is already under pressure after losing three times, including successive defeats against Panama and Canada last month.

The Americans were favourites to win a fourth successive title after domineering victories in the previous three editions of the biennial event.