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He arrived on scene at 09:30 GMT but it was a further five hours before a hushed murmur rippled through the crowd, signalling the bird had become visible.

Anxious faces and hushed talk spread through the crowd as the night stretched on and the tightness of the race became apparent.

On the darkest night of their season last week, the Dodgers didn’t linger in their hushed home clubhouse.

Luka Modric was a fairly hushed presence for 45 minutes and even though his influence grew, this was not the Modric show we've seen before against Scotland.

Shell-shocked residents gathered in the lobby and other communal areas, as they tried to make sense of what had happened, and who they had lost, in hushed conversations.