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After she brought him a tin-opener and can of beans, he asked her how she thought a tin-opener worked, he said.

Nobody would say the tin can was cutting-edge technology, although the more literal-minded might make that claim for the tin-opener.

Earlier this month Bayer Leverkusen player Julian Brandt was quoted by World Soccer Magazine describing his team-mate Leon Bailey in admiring terms: "He's often our tin-opener, the guy who opens the scoring or comes up with the winner. In this sort of form, he's worth his weight in gold."

It's then that they discover they have no tin-opener.

It's a tin with a tin-opener inside the tin.