alien

They add, laughing: “We also both believe in aliens.”

There is no indication, so far, anywhere that these are aliens, foreign actors from secret offshore bases or Santa Claus checking out landing patterns for Christmas Eve.

By 2009 he was out of control and struck fear into rivals by masterminding a series of "alien abductions" across central Scotland.

Guardiola, with that freshly signed two-year contract, insists he "wants it" as he treads on this alien territory of failure.

Lubbock represents a population that feels not only left behind but increasingly alienated by cultural shifts.