The seborrhœic patches are less crimson, the scales smaller, scantier, greasier, and more orange coloured; they occur by preference on the shoulders and upper parts of the trunk, and if affecting the limbs are usually on the flexor aspects.

Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday.

They held respected positions and wielded power in country towns, but in the wider district the pastoral squattocracy was still considered powerful and important. That attentive second echelon of society liked, where possible, to be seen to be associated with the squattocracy.

Sifakas can jump about ten metres (thirty-three feet) – a little further than the human long-jump world record – which is not bad given that they are less than two foot high.