Pierre came over with a splendid flying leap, clearing the bar better than his predecessor.

Carlisle had chances of their own to snatch victory, Hope clearing the bar from one particularly promising opening.

Arsenal made a pair of changes at the break, with substitute Aaron Ramsey clearing the bar after meeting a parry from home keeper Jordan Pickford.

When these had departed, a gigantic fiend calls loudly for clearing the bar, and throws down thereat a man who was a load in himself.