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"Fans distract and intimidate opposition players - even more so in derbies - and this is where the line can be trodden over," he says.

Some of those will cover ground trodden in his successful Mirror Group case in 2023 and, just like in that case, he will give evidence in person.

Until then, however, humans are likely to continue their small steps into the cosmos, on a path long trodden by robotic explorers before them.

As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that broke through had few role models who had trodden that path before them.

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome “perfectly inaccessible” and declared it would “never be trodden by human foot.”