Middlesbrough maintained their unbeaten Premier League start in a dull goalless draw at West Brom.

Home left-back Brendan Galloway had the best chance of the first half, surging forward but striking tamely at Boro goalkeeper Brad Guzan.
Albion's Craig Dawson headed just wide from a corner after the break, and Boro's Cristhian Stuani shot straight at Ben Foster from a tight angle.
Daniel Ayala's poked effort from close range was kept out by Foster later on.
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This was a match lacking in quality and creativity, producing a result with which the visitors will be happier. The draw means that Boro have collected five points from three matches since returning to the top flight.
Aitor Karanka's organised side had more possession without really threatening the West Brom goal, with home goalkeeper Foster worked just twice to make routine saves.
Striker Alvaro Negredo had been involved in all three of his side's goals this term but he was isolated up front - and his total of 26 touches of the ball was the lowest of any player who started the match.
Central defenders Ayala and Ben Gibson looked assured, with the Spaniard contributing a match-high 13 clearances to maintain the side's first clean sheet of the campaign.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis has added just one permanent signing during this transfer window, in Matt Phillips from QPR, as well the loan acquisition of defender Galloway from Everton.
Pulis reiterated the club need to sign "at least five players" to make a difference and on this showing, there will have to be frantic activity before Wednesday's transfer deadline to add reinforcements. The smattering of discontent from the home fans at full-time may just force the Baggies into it.
Teenager Sam Field was given his league debut against Boro and showed glimpses of his potential with tidy passing, but without any real incisiveness.
Although the hosts had 13 shots during the game, six were off target while five were blocked, so a partner for striker Salomon Rondon will be a priority.
The future of Saido Berahino remains unclear and he failed to make in impact during the 20 minutes he was on the pitch. Should he leave without a replacement coming in, West Brom could well be in trouble at the wrong end of the table.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis: "I have said before we need five players to come in because there are players here we need to move on who aren't going to play.
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"There are 14 or 15 players who were here two years ago, when we were struggling near the bottom, who are fantastic and work so hard but we need to freshen up."
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "It was a difficult game for both of us but a point is massive because in the Premier League every game is tough.
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"To have five points on the table is good and we'd have taken that. Maybe today wasn't the best performance but the spirit was there."
West Brom travel to Bournemouth on Saturday, 10 September (kick-off 15:00 BST), while Middlesbrough hosts Crystal Palace at the same time.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Viktor Fischer replaces Cristhian Stuani.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Jonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Daniel Ayala tries a through ball, but Álvaro Negredo is caught offside.
Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brendan Galloway (West Bromwich Albion).
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Jonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Gastón Ramírez.
Attempt missed. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez.
Attempt saved. Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Brendan Galloway.
Foul by Nsue (Middlesbrough).
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Barragán (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Antonio Barragán (Middlesbrough).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Craig Gardner replaces Sam Field.
Attempt missed. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Adam Forshaw.
Attempt blocked. Nsue (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cristhian Stuani.
Attempt saved. Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Barragán.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Brendan Galloway tries a through ball, but Salomón Rondón is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Saido Berahino replaces Jonathan Leko because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion) because of an injury.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Sam Field (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jonathan Leko replaces James McClean.
Attempt missed. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Phillips with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Attempt blocked. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Darren Fletcher.
Foul by Antonio Barragán (Middlesbrough).
Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.


A Borders schoolboy is set to complete a challenge to spend a whole year sleeping in a tent.

Braden Collins, 10, wanted to raise money for the charity Diabetes UK.
After enjoying spending the night in his back garden last May following his mother's birthday party, he vowed to keep it up for a full 365 days.
Despite the harshness of the weather at his home on the banks of St Mary's Loch in the Scottish Borders, he will reach his goal this weekend.
Over the past year, Braden has gone with his family for holidays in the south of England - but he took his tent with him and camped out in their back gardens, accompanied by his pet dog Maisie.
On Saturday he will mark his "One Year Campaversary" with a special gathering of family and friends at his home in the heart of the Yarrow Valley.
Braden said: "I felt like camping for a whole year last May.
"I have slept outside every night through snow, gales and storms.
"One time, my tent blew down and I thought it was 7.30am so I went inside and started doing my homework. Then I realised it was only 3.30am."
Braden said he wanted  to raise money for Diabetes UK "because my dad has diabetes and I wish he didn't".
His mother Claire Collins, 44, said she was proud of her son's feat of endurance, although she had reservations at first.
She said: "I had a party for my birthday on 27 May last year and we had quite a full house so Braden, who was nine at the time, and his older brother Eden thought it would be a good idea to pitch up their tent and camp out for the night in the garden.
"It was lovely summer weather and Braden slept so well and enjoyed the experience so much that he said he wanted to do it again the next night.
"After a week, he told us he was determined to spend a whole year camping out."
She said that both she and her husband Paul had been "naturally sceptical" but he had proved them wrong.
"Every bedtime, he goes out to his tent with his head torch, his hot water bottle, his toy dog Alan and his real dog - our young Border Terrier Maisie - who sleeps out with him," she said.
"In the morning he comes in for his breakfast and gets ready for school.
"He seems to take it all in his stride and has never once said he didn't want to camp out, even during the cold nights of winter."
To mark Braden's achievement - and Claire's 45th birthday - the family is holding a party on Saturday night.
"Paul and I are so proud of Braden," she said. "It shows great strength of character to endure something like this for so long, without any complaints.
"In our eyes he's a little superstar."


Plans to ban a football hooligan known as the 'Pig of Marseille' from going to the Euro 2016 tournament have been dropped - three months after it ended.

James Shayler, 50, of Wellingborough, was jailed during the 1998 World Cup in France for an attack on police.
His passport was confiscated at Northampton Magistrates' Court in June and the case adjourned until the day the tournament ended.
It had been due to resume earlier but the BBC learned it has been abandoned.
Court officials said police had asked for the case to be dropped on Thursday.
The banning order against Mr Shayler had been sought by police in response to alleged comments made in a Sunday Star newspaper article.
In the article, Mr Shayler suggested he intended to travel to France to join up with Russian supporters to attack Muslims.
Magistrates adjourned their decision on imposing a banning order until 11 July - the day Euro 2016 finished.
At that hearing it was put back again after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had requested more time to find a witness.
Last year the BBC reported cases heard in English magistrates' courts take 149 days on average to complete, with magistrates warning the system was "on the cusp" of breaking down.
During the case in June, the CPS had successfully applied to have two bail conditions imposed.
Under them, Mr Shayler was barred from leaving England or Wales before his next hearing and told he had to continue to surrender his UK passport to Northamptonshire Police.


The life of the late Scots artist George Wyllie is to be celebrated at Inverness' new book festival.

Glasgow-born Wyllie, who died in 2012 at the age of 90, gained international acclaim for his works Straw Locomotive and Paper Boat.
He also created art for sites in Aberdeenshire and Rannoch Moor.
His daughter Louise Wyllie, who lives in the Highlands, and arts journalist Jan Patience will discuss their book on Wyllie at NessBookFest.
The biography, Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie, will be discussed by its joint authors at an event in Inverness Library on Friday.
Born in Shettleston, Wyllie went on to have a close connection to the Scottish Highlands.
During World War Two, his early wartime service involved being part of a squad of engineers who set up radio location centres, many of them in the Highlands, for the RAF to track bombers flying into Britain.
In later life, the artist was a frequent visitor to Boat of Garten, near Inverness, where his daughter Louise has lived for about 15 years.
Wyllie's sculptures have also been installed in the Highlands, including a spire with a bottle of whisky buried underneath on the small island of Gruinard.
The 1990 piece of art marked the Ministry of Defence's declaration that Gruinard was officially anthrax-free. The island was contaminated with anthrax spores in 1942 as an experiment in germ warfare.
Inverness-born filmmaker Murray Grigor recorded the installation of the piece on Gruinard for his award-winning Channel 4 documentary on Wyllie, The Why?s Man.
One of Wyllie's last major works, Cosmic Reach, was installed at The Lecht Ski Centre, in Aberdeenshire, to celebrate the Highland Year of Culture in 2007.
Wyllie's best-known art emerged in the late 1980s.
In 1987, he attracted international attention with his Straw Locomotive, which hung from the Finnieston crane in Glasgow before being burned in nearby Springburn in a Viking-style funeral.
Two years later, his Paper Boat was seen by millions as it sailed around the world from Glasgow to New York and back to Scotland. It made it onto the front page of the Wall Street Journal, when it berthed at the World Financial Centre in New York in 1990.
In the 1980s, he also built a sculpture on Rannoch Moor as a tribute to his friend and mentor, the influential German conceptual artist, Joseph Beuys, after he died.
Robins were a recurring theme of Wyllie's work and he often said he would return to life as one of the little birds. Co-author Patience said she saw many of the birds while she was working on the biography.


A second member of staff has been suspended at Yarl's Wood detention centre following allegations of abuse, Home Office Minister Karen Bradley has told MPs.

Undercover filming by Channel 4 News showed staff referring to inmates as "animals", "beasties" and "bitches".
In the House of Commons, Ms Bradley said a second staff member had been suspended from the Bedfordshire centre.
She added operator Serco had commissioned a review of its culture.
Speaking in Parliament, Ms Bradley said: "Serco immediately suspended one member of staff who could be identified from information available before broadcast and have suspended another having seen the footage.
"The company has also commissioned an independent review of its culture and staffing at Yarl's Wood."
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called for an independent inquiry into conditions at Yarl's Wood which holds women and families facing deportation.
She told the Commons: "This is state-sanctioned abuse of women on the Home Secretary's watch and it needs to end now."
Former barrister Kate Lampard is to carry out the independent review, Serco said.
In the undercover footage broadcast on Monday, one guard said: "They're animals. They're beasties. They're all animals. Caged animals. Take a stick with you and beat them up. Right?"
A Freedom of Information Act request by Channel 4 News also revealed there were 74 separate incidents of self-harm needing medical treatment at the centre in 2013.
The minister said Home Office officials had already visited the detention centre and highlighted the high standards expected of staff.
She said: "A sense of fairness must always be at the heart of our immigration system, including for those we are removing from the UK. That is why the allegations made by Channel 4 about Serco staff at Yarl's Wood are serious and deeply concerning.
"As soon as we were made aware of recent allegations, Home Office officials visited Yarl's Wood to provide assurances all detainees were being treated in a safe and dignified manner."
Ms Bradley said the most recent inspection by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found Yarl's Wood to be a "safe and respectful centre which is continuing to improve", while an independent panel also raised no concerns.
James Thorburn, managing director of Serco's home affairs business, which manages Yarl's Wood, said: "We will not tolerate poor conduct or disrespect and will take disciplinary action wherever appropriate."


Number three seed Peter Wright defeated Jerry Hendriks to move into round two of the PDC World Championship.

Scotland's Wright went through with a 3-0 win after Dutchman Hendriks had beaten Australian Warren Parry in the preliminary round.
Earlier, number 19 seed Gerwyn Price lost 3-1 to fellow Welshman Jonny Clayton, who is unseeded.
And English number 27 seed Steve Beaton beat South Africa's Devon Petersen 3-1 to book his spot in the next round.
Wright will next play Wales' Jamie Lewis, the number 30 seed.
Beaton plays James Wade or Ronny Huybrechts, while Clayton will face Ian White, Kevin Simm or Gilbert Ulang.
Top seed Michael van Gerwen, who has won 25 tournaments in 2016, will begin his defence against either Canada's Ross Snook or Finland's Kim Viljanen.


A missing vulnerable teenager has been found more than 100 miles away from her home thanks to mobile phone tracking.

Molly Davidson, 19, from Sutton-in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, was last seen in Nottingham on Monday.
It was thought Miss Davidson, who has learning difficulties, went to London to see a stranger she had met online.
Her father Anthony said she had not been in contact and her devices were all offline, but the tracking technology showed she was in Edmonton.
It appeared she met a man through Facebook, where he had multiple accounts. They have now been deleted.
Her father said Miss Davidson's friends told him she and the man had been chatting online for several months.
Her parents had travelled to the north London district to find their daughter.


A man has been arrested after dousing himself with petrol outside the BBC's office in central London.

The man poured petrol over himself and was shouting outside BBC New Broadcasting House, in Portland Place at about 09:10 BST.
Eyewitnesses said he was trying to set fire to himself. He was restrained by security guards.
Police officers and firefighters attended the scene. No-one was injured and there was no fire.


Former UKIP donor Arron Banks has said he will not stand for the Clacton seat in the general election after a fact-finding mission to the town.

The businessman headed to Clacton-on-Sea after he admitted he knew "nothing" about the Essex town.
But following his visit, he said he would be backing local party councillor Jeff Bray.
Mr Banks initially planned to take on current MP Douglas Carswell, before he announced he would not be standing.
The multimillionaire businessman said: "I have no intention of standing in the way of hard-working activists who are the soul of the party.
"Therefore, after visiting Clacton, I believe it would be wrong of me to stand against Jeff in the forthcoming hustings."
Mr Banks previously said he only knew Clacton from a "fabulous day out" during the referendum campaign, and as one of the strongest supporting areas for Euro-scepticism.
He said he has agreed to give the local UKIP party financial assistance to fight the election.
His arrival in the constituency follows the announcement by knife crime campaigner Caroline Shearer that she intends to stand as an independent there.
Her son, Jay Whiston, was 17 years old when he was murdered by Edward Redman in Colchester in 2012.


A company set up to oversee the development of a new stand at Northampton Town Football Club has been forced into liquidation.

It took a High Court judge less than a minute to issue a winding up order against County Developments (Northampton) Limited (CDNL) at a hearing in Birmingham.
The petition was brought by sub-contractors Buckingham Group, which has halted construction of the East Stand at Northampton Town's Sixfields home.
It claims it is owed Â£2.9m by CDNL.
Northampton Town chairman David Cardoza and his father Anthony Cardoza are the only company directors listed for CNDL.
Buckingham Group said it had to stop work on the development of the East Stand twice - initially when contractors 1st Land Limited went into administration and again when contracting company CDNL failed to pay in full.
In a statement, Buckingham Group said: "We stopped work because we were not paid."
CDNL's assets will now be liquidated in order to repay creditors.
A spokesman for Northampton Borough Council said it will be talking to potential developers.
It read: "The winding up of CDNL today means that Northampton Borough Council is now free to talk to a wider range of people, including the official receiver, about the future development of the land, which is how the loan that we have made to the football club will be paid back.
"We will be meeting with interested parties soon.
"Our priority is to protect the public purse and ensure the loan is repaid in full, while also offering support to safeguard the future of the football club."
"With that in mind, we have made proposals to David Cardoza and offered to work with the club to avoid being liquidated by the HMRC petition and we await a decision from David Cardoza on that."
Mr Cardoza was not at the hearing and was not available for comment.


A 10-year-old boy has been seriously injured after being hit by a car in Swansea.

South Wales Police said the boy was struck by a white Land Rover Freelander close to the entrance of Glais rugby club on Birchgrove Road at about 16:00 BST on Monday.
He was taken to the city's Morriston Hospital.
The road was closed for three hours but has since reopened.
Police have asked witnesses to call 101.


A rare racing car driven by Formula 1 legend Juan Manuel Fangio has sold for £17.5m in what is believed to be a record for a car sold at auction.

The Mercedes-Benz W196, in which the five-time world champion clinched his second title, was auctioned at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
He drove the Mercedes to victory in the 1954 German and Swiss Grand Prix.
The previous world record was set by a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype which went for $16.4m (£10.8m) in 2011.
BBC chief Formula 1 writer Andrew Benson said the car was the motorsport equivalent of a great work of art.
By Andrew BensonChief F1 writer
A price-tag of £17.5m for a racing car that is nearly 60 years old might seem absurd to some. It is the sort of money that great works of art fetch at auction. But that is exactly how the Mercedes W196 is viewed within the motorsport world.
This car set a new standard in Formula 1, winning nine of 12 races through the 1954 and '55 seasons, all but one of them at the hands of the Argentine maestro Juan Manuel Fangio. The other went to Stirling Moss.
The W196 isn't beautiful in the way of, say, a Maserati 250F - the car that Fangio drove to the last of his five world titles - but it has a striking purposefulness about it.
As with all great cars, it also came with innovations - in this case, desmodronic valves and fuel injection.
Add in that Mercedes only competed in F1 for two years in the 1950s, not returning with its own team until 2010, and that this specific example was driven to two wins by a man many still regard as the greatest racing driver that has ever lived, and that price perhaps seems a little more understandable.
He said it was not as beautiful as some of the other vehicles at the time but had a "striking purposefulness about it".
The German-made car was sold to a private buyer over the telephone, Bonhams said.
Potential buyers from three continents had shown interest in the vehicle, which was sold in its current condition with noticeable blemishes.
James Knight, group motoring director at Bonhams, said: "At £19.6m inclusive [commission and taxes], it's a new world record by some distance.
"Our own personal record of £5m was achieved last year for a Bentley.
"The price that we achieved today is over three times that, so it's extraordinary.
"We always knew that it was a very, very important car."
The 2.5-litre vehicle - chassis number 00006/54 - was also driven by Fangio's teammate Karl Kling in the 1955 Italian Grand Prix in Monza but suffered gearbox failure.
Bonhams said it was consigned to the Daimler-Benz Museum in Germany later that year and exhibited at Le Mans in France, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and Hockenheim in Germany throughout the 1960s.
A spokeswoman for Bonhams said: "This is the only Mercedes-Benz W196 in private hands. It is the only surviving Mercedes-Benz W196 to have won not just one Grand Prix, but two.
"Its stature is immense, not only as the iconic Fangio car of the 1950s, but also as a shining star of pinnacle Mercedes-Benz engineering and as an icon of post-war recovery."
Motoring historian Doug Nye said: "In every area of the car, there is evidence of just the most fantastic workmanship. It was designed by very sophisticated, high-tech engineers.
"It's handcrafted and it's just like a piece of mechanical jewellery."
Following the sale, he said that if Fangio was alive today he would shake his head and smile a "slow smile".
"He was a humble man, originally a mechanic from a potato town in Argentina, and he never forgot his roots," he said.
"As a driver, he was simply a genius. As a man he had no enemies. He was universally loved, even by those he regularly beat on track.
"No standard-setting sportsman could have a better epitaph."
Bonhams chairman Robert Brooks said: "I have handled some of the world's most desirable and important motor cars during a motoring auction career spanning five decades, but I have reached a peak today with this legendary Grand Prix car."
Argentinian racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio won five world championships, the first being in 1951.
The auction was held to mark the 20th anniversary of the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester in West Sussex.


It ended in the same way as Cardiff City's previous two finals at the new Wembley - defeat.

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Another loss at Wembley - and in such heartbreaking fashion - will be hard to take for the Bluebird army, who had travelled in their thousands.
But Cardiff supporters can reflect on their side's League Cup final performance with a sense of pride.
"We've a lot to be proud of," said manager Malky Mackay following the penalty shoot-out defeat. "We lost it with dignity."
Like most Liverpool victories of the past decade, Gerrard would prove be the pivotal figure. This time, however, Steven was not the headline maker.
The day had started with Cardiff fans joking Liverpool's team coach would be best served following them on the way to Wembley.
We wanted to come here and win but we have done the club proud. I think you have got two teams who have put everything into that game. You have to lose with dignity and that's what we did. There is a lot of emotion out there because it is a young side and emotions are running high but I am so proud of them
The journey along the M4 to North London is one Cardiff and its supporters have become used to during recent seasons.
Four appearances in as many years at the home of English football would be the envy of several Premier League clubs, Liverpool included.
Wembley Way was awash with red and blue, a mix of Welsh and Scouse accents with fans making the most of the sunshine which greeted them.
Mingling with supporters and enjoying the pre-match build-up were Cardiff's Malaysian backers Vincent Tan and chairman Dato Tan Tien Ghee, along with chief executive Alan Whiteley.
He said: "For any Championship club to get to a final at Wembley is a stunning achievement. It's a great day for the club and a great day for the fans."
But amidst the anticipation and excitement there was time for reflection and solemn remembrance too.
Cardiff fans paid their tributes to a fellow Bluebird, Mikey Dye, who had lost his life before the England-Wales match here last September.
Both sets of fans were in fine voice - Cardiff with 'Men of Harlech' and Liverpool's 'You'll Never Walk Alone' - as the players went through their final paces.
There was no place in the starting line-up for Craig Bellamy and, for once, there were no jeers from the opposition supporters when his name was announced.
They still appreciate the Wales striker's efforts during his loan spell in south Wales last season and the affection he still clearly holds for his home-town club.
Bellamy had barely settled into his seat as the game began in frantic fashion, but Cardiff kept their heads and Mackay's side slowly settled into the game.
Mackay was as close to the action as he could get on the edge of the technical area, shouting instructions and encouraging his players.
But the usually animated Scotsman was probably the calmest man in the stadium when Joe Mason gave the underdogs the lead.
The Cardiff end behind Tom Heaton's goal erupted. It was a moment to savour, especially against the competition's most successful side.
But the more cautious amongst the 31,000 would have recalled they had taken the lead two years ago in the Championship play-off final against Blackpool, a game which ultimately ended in defeat.
And as if to haunt them of that day, Charlie Adam, one of Blackpool's goalscorers, flashed a shot just inches wide of Tom Heaton's left hand post.
Kenny Dalglish sent his team out early for the second half but it was Cardiff's 'King Kenny' - Miller - who had the first opportunity of note.
Liverpool had found it hard to break down Cardiff's resolute defence and the stage was set for the introduction of Bellamy.
Two minutes later, and on the hour, Martin Skrtel delivered a blow to Cardiff's hopes with Liverpool's equaliser.
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Cardiff were now fearing the worst as Liverpool upped their game. The Liverpool fans too were now expecting the Premier League class to show through.
But Cardiff held on doggedly and not once did they look out of place.
Dalglish and Mackay - two former Celtic players - continued to pace the touchlines as the game ebbed and flowed.
Both teams - and supporters - enjoyed dominant spells as the game edged closer to extra time and the final whistle was a welcome relief as the tension mounted.
The extra half hour was as absorbing as the previous 90 minutes had been but in the second period it was substitute Dirk Kuyt who struck to give Liverpool the advantage.
Dalglish celebrated with the same exuberance as he had done in May 1986 when his winning goal against Chelsea had secured his first trophy as manager.
But Cardiff were far from finished. Hard work and endeavour has been instilled into the team by Mackay since he arrived at the club last summer.
They were not going to give up on their dream and Ben Turner, a player signed by Mackay, rescued his side.
"You're not singing anymore" was Cardiff supporters' riposte as their Liverpool counterparts were stunned into silence.
Having screamed and shouted all afternoon it was a surprise anyone had the energy left to sing.
They just about had enough energy to witness a dramatic penalty shoot-out with the first, by Steven Gerrard,  saved by Cardiff keeper Tom Heaton.
Three minutes later, Cardiff's fate hinged on Gerrard's cousin Anthony. He failed to find the target and Liverpool had secured an eighth League Cup.
It was a cruel end to what had been a memorable Cardiff performance, but a sign of how far they have developed under Mackay.
At the start of the season very few would have predicted Cardiff pushing for promotion, let alone contest a Wembley final, following a summer of upheaval.
Cardiff - fans, players and officials - will have plenty of time to reflect on what could have been as they make their way home from Wembley.
But there will also be plenty of time to look ahead too under the steady guidance of Mackay.
It might feel like the end of the world now, but it is far from a season's end for Cardiff City.


Aileen Reid produced an impressive run to come in 21st in the Olympic Games triathlon on Saturday.

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The Derry triathlete was 32nd following the swim and had drifted out to 36th at the end of the bike stage.
However, Reid moved through the field in the 10k run as she gained 15 places to finish just under five minutes behind winner Gwen Jorgensen.
Illness curtailed Reid's training for the Games and she said there was "no pressure" on her ahead of the event.
Four years ago, her Olympic dream turned into a nightmare as she crashed in the cycling section of the event and finished in 43rd place.
American Jorgensen won the race in 1:56.16 and 40 seconds ahead of defending champion Nicola Sprig of Switzerland.
Vicky Holland outsprinted fellow Briton Non Stanford in a thrilling finish to clinch the bronze medal.


The UK is "letting down" its allies by failing to launch air strikes against terrorist group Islamic State in Syria, says Britain's top military commander.

General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, criticised the UK policy of restricting RAF air strikes to neighbouring Iraq.
He said the decision "makes no sense" when IS, also known as Isil, has its stronghold in Syria.
MPs rejected possible UK military action in Syria in 2013.
The government remains committed to action in Syria - but will not order air strikes until it is confident it can win win a vote in the Commons authorising them.
About 30 Conservative backbenchers would be likely to vote against military action and ministers are not convinced they can persuade enough of them to change their mind, or get enough Labour MPs to back their case, to win a vote.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "The Labour Party is a different organisation to that which we faced before the summer.
"We need to understand where the Labour Party is on this. At the moment even its leader doesn't always agree with its policies.
"There is an exploration process here of understanding whether the majority of Labour MPs would, in fact, back this action."
Mr Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr show Britain saw "eye-to-eye" with the Russians on lots of things in Syria, such as "the need to destroy Isil" but he added: "The one thing we disagree on is the future of Bashar al-Assad.
"We and most of our allies believe he needs to go at a point in the transition."
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said it is "morally indefensible" for Britain to rely on other countries to tackle the so-called Islamic State in Syria.


Five teenagers started for Celtic as the League Cup holders swept aside Kilmarnock to reach the quarter-finals.

Leigh Griffiths scored either side of Anthony Ralston's first senior goal for the club to make it 3-0 at half-time.
Captain for the night Kieran Tierney netted a wonderful strike from distance that will long live in his memory and the fans who witnessed it.
Stuart Armstrong tapped in to cap a straightforward night for Celtic and a sore one for Kilmarnock.
It was not a birthday to remember for Kilmarnock's Kirk Broadfoot as he and Gordon Greer looked to forge their new central defensive partnership in testing circumstances.
Only Craig Gordon, Tierney and Griffiths continued with starting berths from the Celtic 11 that began the weekend's 4-1 Premiership victory over Hearts.
Manager Brendan Rodgers offered more first-team experience to Ralston (18), left-wing-back Calvin Miller (19) and recent signing from Ipswich Town Kundai Benyu (19).
Kristoffer Ajer (19) and Eboue Kouassi (19) were the others under the age of 20 handed the responsibility of helping Celtic get off to a smooth start in defending one part of the domestic treble they captured last season.
Tierney was deployed as a centre-back beside Ajer, who spent much of the 2016-17 campaign on loan at Kilmarnock, but the home defence had little to do.
Not so at the other end, and a silly foul from winger Jordan Jones on Jonny Hayes handed the hosts an early penalty that Griffiths fired into the bottom corner.
A memorable moment for Ralston soon followed when he headed in Griffiths' corner kick after being given too much space by the Killie defence.
Goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald could not stop that one but he did well to beat away a stinging effort from Griffiths and he went on to make an even better stop from Armstrong later.
The visitors had started Lee Erwin up front in place of Kris Boyd but the ball rarely made its way that far up the pitch as Killie were pinned back.
Tierney highlighted his ever-increasing skill-set in many ways in this match. Playing as captain and centre-back was only the beginning, as he impressed with a nice threaded pass to set up Griffiths for his fourth goal in two games - the striker springing a half-hearted Killie offside trap before calmly slotting in to give his team a 3-0 lead at the break.
Tierney then sent a 40-yard screamer high into the top corner for Celtic's fourth. It was a terrific strike that the man, already capped four times for Scotland, will struggle to better in what promises to be a bright future.
The busy Hayes scampered down the right for his second assist of the night, sending an inviting low cross for Armstrong to side-foot home from close-range.
One negative for Celtic was a nasty looking injury for Kouassi, who was taken off after jarring what looked like his knee or ankle.
Match ends, Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0.
Attempt missed. Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock).
Attempt blocked. Chris Burke (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay in match James Forrest (Celtic) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by William Graham (Kilmarnock).
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Power (Kilmarnock).
Goal!  Celtic 5, Kilmarnock 0. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Ralston.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Kundai Benyu.
Foul by Kundai Benyu (Celtic).
Alan Power (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Anthony Ralston (Celtic).
William Graham (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal!  Celtic 4, Kilmarnock 0. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) left footed shot from more than 35 yards to the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Ralston.
Substitution, Celtic. James Forrest replaces Leigh Griffiths.
Attempt saved. Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Kirk Broadfoot.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kristoffer Ajer (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Calvin Miller (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Burke (Kilmarnock).
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
William Graham (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Stephen O'Donnell replaces Iain Wilson.
Attempt blocked. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Gordon Greer.


Leicestershire elite performance director Andrew McDonald has agreed to coach Melbourne Renegades in the 2016-17 Big Bash League.

McDonald will join the Renegades during the English off-season, with their first game taking place on 22 December.
"I'm really looking forward for that period of time to come round, but first and foremost we've got a job to do here," he told BBC Radio Leicester.
"The focus is fully on Leicestershire and the end of the season."


One lane of a dual carriageway was closed by police investigating the disappearance of airman Corrie Mckeague.

Mr Mckeague, 23, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds on 23 September.
He was last spotted on CCTV walking alone in Brentgovel Street at 03:25 BST the next day.
Suffolk Police closed one lane of the eastbound A14 between the Moreton Hall and Rougham junctions.
It remained coned-off from 10:00 until just after lunchtime.
Their search was due to cover a mile-and-a-half stretch of the road.
Over the past few weeks officers have been carrying out extensive work to locate Mr Mckeague, originally from Dunfermline in Fife.
Detectives believe he stopped for a brief nap in a doorway before setting off to walk the nine miles (15km) back to the RAF Honington base alone.
Police said dozens of people have been spoken to and hundreds of lines of inquiry followed up but are still urging anyone with information to come forward.
A trace on his mobile phone, which has not been found, showed it was in Bury St Edmunds early on 24 September but then moved to the Barton Mills area.
Facebook and Twitter pages have been set up appealing for information to help the police inquiry.
A police spokeswoman said today's lane closure was a follow-up to a "potential line of inquiry", but it had provided no new information to the missing person inquiry.


Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is in intensive care after being found unconscious at her Los Angeles home.

The 71-year-old was rushed to hospital on Tuesday afternoon. It is not immediately clear what illness she has.
A statement released on her website said she "regained consciousness on the ambulance ride to an LA area hospital".
The Canadian-born artist is "currently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits," it added.
Los Angeles fire officials said paramedics had answered a 911 call in Bel Air, where Mitchell lives, and had taken a patient whom they did not identify to hospital.
In December she told Billboard magazine that she had a rare skin condition, Morgellons disease, which prevented her from performing.
"I can't sing any more - don't miss it. I can't play any more - don't miss it. I've got all these instruments laying around and hopefully one day I'll pick them up," she was quoted as saying.
Morgellons is a controversial condition and is not recognised by mainstream medical authorities. Sufferers say it is characterised by crawling and stinging sensations under the skin but many in the medical community believe it is a psychiatric disorder.
Read: Seven essential songs of Joni Mitchell.
Musicians took to social media to send messages of support. Boy George tweeted: "A prayer for Joni Mitchell."
Billy Idol also sent best wishes: "Sorry to hear today's news about Joni Mitchell. I sang on her 'Dancing Clown' single many moons ago, all the best 4 her recovery."
Mitchell has released 19 original albums, with her last in 2007.
Best known for her 1970 hit Big Yellow Taxi, Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Her 1971 album, Blue, is  ranked 30th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.


For several months, the pro-Kremlin media had nothing but praise for Donald Trump.

During the US election campaign, Russian state TV bulletins and pro-government newspapers portrayed him as some kind of David taking on the Goliath of a "corruptâ€¦ Russia-hating" Washington elite. They welcomed his calls for warmer US-Russian relations. They played down some of his more outlandish comments.
It was almost as if a US presidential candidate, and subsequently a new US president, had become the golden boy of Russian politics. In January he even received more mentions in the Russian media than President Vladimir Putin.
But I detect a change in tone.
On Friday, Russia's most popular tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, accused President Trump of making "contradictory" statements about Nato.
The paper points out: "(During the election campaign) Trump had called the Alliance obsolete and useless. Less than two months have passed since he moved into the Oval Office and he's already expressed full support for Nato.
"As the saying goes, you need to be drunk to understand the true position of America's president."
Friday's edition of the Russian government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, notes: "Recently the White House has been making many contradictory and incompatible statements about the foreign policy direction of Trump's team, including issues that affect Russia's interests."
Reporting Thursday's meeting in Bonn between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, the paper emphasises "it was obvious how tense and, at the same time, confused Tillerson looked".
Meanwhile, Nezavisimaya Gazeta warns against "excessive Trumpophilia".
And with President Trump under sustained pressure back home over alleged links to Russia, the business daily Vedomosti doubts he will have "flexibilityâ€¦ in talks with Russia.
"Every step he takes, particularly any concessions, will be examined under a microscope. It's even hard to believe now that there ever was a window of opportunity (to improve relations) that made it seem worth raising our glasses and toasting Trump's victory."
In recent days there has been noticeably less Trump on Russian TV.
The resignation of the president's national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday may have made headlines around the world. But it was not mentioned in Russian state TV's 45-minute evening news bulletin. That is extraordinary, considering that Russia was central to the story.
There are reports that state television has been instructed to scale back its coverage of the US president. The Kremlin has dismissed these as "rumours".
"I was told by someone closely connected to one of Russia's main state TV companies that such instructions exist and were issued in the wake of Flynn's departure," says Konstantin Eggert, a political commentator for the independent channel TV Rain.
"As far as I know, the idea is not so much to present him in a negative light, but to scale down coverage of the United States in general. Inevitably I think there's going to be a scaling down of positive coverage of Trump, too. The Kremlin's idea is to reduce expectations from this much-anticipated detente between Moscow and Washington."
President Putin's spokesman told the BBC reports of Kremlin meddling were "absolute rubbish" and "fake news".
"TV channels and the Russian media have total independence to decide their own editorial policy," Dmitry Peskov told me.
I asked him whether he thought it was odd that Russian TV channels appeared to have reduced their coverage of Mr Trump.
"To be honest, we don't study so closely the proportions in which different stories are reported," he replied.
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Last November one Russian official admitted to me having celebrated Mr Trump's victory - with a cigar and bottle of champagne.
So why has the champagne gone flat?
Judging by the angry reaction of senior Russian politicians, Moscow was disappointed by Michael Flynn's departure. The Trump adviser had championed closer US-Russian ties.
Then came White House comments about Crimea, making clear that President Trump expects Russia to return the annexed peninsula to Ukraine.
To Russia it seemed a sudden 180-degree turn. During the election campaign Donald Trump had told ABC television: "The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were."
And on Thursday senior members of the Trump administration sounded less than enthusiastic about the idea of a rapprochement with Moscow.
US Defence Secretary James Mattis said Washington was "not in a position right now to co-operate on the military levelâ€¦ Russia's aggressive actions have violated international law and are destabilising."
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated that America "will consider working with Russia". That is hardly a ringing endorsement.
Yet Donald Trump has made it clear he still believes a better relationship with Vladimir Putin and Russia is good for America. Could he once again becoming the American darling of the Russian media?
That will partly depend on whether the two presidents can strike up a good relationship when they eventually meet.
But it depends, too, on how much pressure President Trump will be under by then, over his team's alleged Russian connections.


Polls have opened in Spain after the four main parties failed to break the political deadlock from December's inconclusive general election.

Opinion polls have suggested that Sunday's election may still not overcome the stalemate.
The conservative Popular Party (PP) is tipped to win, but to fall short of a parliamentary majority.
Polls indicate the left-wing Unidos Podemos alliance is edging ahead of the Socialists (PSOE) for second place.
The two could potentially form a broad left-wing coalition.
The centre-right, pro-business party Ciudadanos (Citizens) is forecast to take fourth place.
Analysts say many voters are disillusioned and a high turnout is not expected.
December's election was a watershed for Spain, because the PP and the PSOE had previously alternated in power since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s.
Unidos Podemos (United We Can) and other leftists argue that the PP, under acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, has been discredited because of austerity and the chronic unemployment that has plagued Spain since the 2008 financial crisis.
The PP, however, says Spain's improved economic performance is proof that its policies have worked.
The UK's referendum vote on Thursday to leave the European Union has cast a shadow over Spain's election.
Mr Rajoy said it was "important to convey a message of institutional and economic stability".
Meanwhile, Unidos Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said Europe had to "change course", adding: "No-one would want to leave Europe if it were fair and united."
Polls open at 07:00 GMT and close at 18:00 GMT with results expected two to three hours later.


A public meeting in Harlow where a Polish man died and two others were attacked has heard some European nationals are considering leaving.

About 30 people attended the event organised by Essex Police following the death of Arkadiusz Jozwik, 39, attacked in The Stow at Harlow on 27 August.
Residents gathered at the Latton Bush Centre, Southern Way, on Saturday.
Police heard concerns about his death and assaults on two Polish men as well as other alleged hate crimes.
Mira Gustmajdzimski, who was at the event, said Polish people no longer felt part of the community in Harlow, and "many people were scared to come to this meeting".
Albanian Mimoza Matoshi, who works for Integration Support Services in Harlow, said there has been a dramatic rise in racist attacks since Brexit.
She said some Polish people were considering leaving the town.
Miroslawa Majdzinska from Poland said she had been repeatedly targeted in racist incidents.
"Many people were abused, my friends were told not to speak the Polish language at work, kids are not allowed to speak Polish in school."
Ch Supt Sean O'Callaghan from Essex Police said: "Residents are understandably shocked and concerned following these violent incidents.
"We wanted to give the community an opportunity to raise their concerns.
"Our figures show that about 2% of crimes are hate related and a smaller percentage are related to race.
"We have limited resources so need to put officers where they are needed," he added.
On Friday Prime Minister Theresa May has expressed her "deep regret" over attacks on Polish citizens living in the UK.
She told Polish PM Beata Szydlo that "hate crime has no place in UK society".
She referred to Poles attacked since Brexit in June and the killing of Arkadiusz Jozwik in Harlow.


Rock legends The Who have unveiled their first song in eight years as they mark their 50th anniversary.

Be Lucky includes lyrical references to Australian rockers AC/DC and French electro band Daft Punk and will be included in a double album featuring the group's greatest hits.
The band will donate royalties from the new track to teenage cancer sufferers.
One of the most influential rock bands of the 20th Century, their hits include My Generation and I Can See for Miles.
Earlier this year, surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend announced they would play a tour, which starts in the UK in November, to mark their 50 years in the industry.
Daltrey described the tour as "the beginning of the long goodbye".
The new track Be Lucky features the lyrics "You wanna climb without a safety line/ AC/DC's gonna be fine," and a similar refrain, "You want to climb without a safety line/ Daft Punk will tell you that it's gonna be fine."
Daft Punk's single Get Lucky was one of the biggest hits of 2013.
Recorded at British Grove and Yellow Fish Studios, the Who track features long-time collaborators Zak Starkey on drums and Pino Palladino on bass.
In a statement on their website, The Who said: "In keeping with their ongoing support for Teenage Cancer charities, the band have donated their royalties from the song to Teen Cancer America."
Daltrey was instrumental in founding the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2000.
In 2011, Teen Cancer America was founded by Daltrey and Townshend in the US.
In April, Daltrey was presented with the outstanding contribution prize at the Music Week awards for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Singer Paul Weller praised Daltrey's "tireless, fantastic work" for a "very worthwhile charity".
The Who were formed by singer Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle in London in 1964 and were joined by drummer Keith Moon before recording their first single.
Moon died of a drug overdose in 1978 and Entwistle died of a drug-induced heart attack in 2002.


Actor David Tennant is suing the owners of the defunct News of the World over alleged phone hacking.

His lawyers issued a claim for compensation at the High Court in London on Thursday.
Law firm Collyer Bristow said it was representing nine people in total, including former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine. They said other law firms have also issued claims this week.
News UK, which owned the paper until it closed in 2011, declined to comment.
Collyer Bristow said its clients had been left with "no alternative" following the closure of a compensation scheme.
It said the News of the World had previously "admitted and apologised for hacking into the voicemails of a number of high-profile individuals" and opened a compensation scheme in 2011 as an alternative to litigation.
But Collyer Bristow said the scheme closed "after less than 18 months of operation".
The NoW was shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch following the revelation that the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked.
The scandal also led to the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, an MPs' inquiry and the launch of three police investigations into alleged widespread phone hacking and corruption.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson - who later became director of communications for then Prime Minister David Cameron - was jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones.
Hugh Grant and Charlotte Church were among those who settled claims against the paper over phone-hacking.
Steven Heffer, who is acting on behalf of the claimants, said: "My firm continues to act for a number of clients with claims against News Group arising out of phone hacking and other unlawful activities.
"News Group withdrew its compensation scheme in 2013, giving no proper explanation for this move and has failed to compensate victims despite all attempts by lawyers to settle cases out of court."
The firm says it has now acted for more than 200 "victims of hacking and unlawful surveillance".
Collyer Bristow said other claimants included Fran Cutler, Jess Morris, Tanya Frayne, Sophia Myles and Rob Gros.
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Once again, it has been a summer when Britain's sporting stars have done so much to delight. In Rio, second place in the medal table, 20 years after the Atlanta Olympics saw the nation finish 36th.
British athletes won 67 medals, more even than that giddy red, white and blue whirlwind in London four years ago.
They won gold medals in 15 different sports, a wider spread than any other nation - sitting-down sports, as the old gag goes, but also face down in watersports, fighting sports, multi-sports and running sports. On horseback, on wheels, off springboards and on pommels.
It has been a fortnight awash with not only first places but historical firsts. Never before has a Briton won a diving gold. Never before has a  Briton won a gymnastics gold. Never before has any triathlete from anywhere retained an Olympic title.
Such is the unprecedented nature of so much of it, the merely dramatic barely gets a look-in. Adam Peaty became the first British male to win a swimming gold in 28 years, but when Max Whitlock and the pairing of Jack Laugher and Chris Mears are breaking hoodoos that have stretched back 130 years, the comparison is rendered unfair.
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This has been an Olympics when the cottage in Cheshire belonging to soon-to-be-married couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny would have sat 13th in the medal table on its own in the aftermath of their spectacular deeds in the velodrome, above Spain, Jamaica, Kenya and Brazil.
It has been a Games when a 58-year-old horse rider has won a gold, and a 16-year-old gymnast become a medallist.
When Amy Tinkler was born, Nick Skelton was six months from retirement. Here he became his country's oldest Olympic gold medallist since 61-year-old Jerry Millner 108 years ago, at an Olympics Tinkler probably thinks he can remember first hand.
With the freakish deeds came freakish stats; Skelton's triumph in the individual show jumping meant Britain's 57th medal had been won by a man born in 1957. With freakish stats came exceptional events: a penalty shootout was won, by the GB women's hockey team, when penalty shootouts are supposed to end only in tearful defeat.
There were new heroes to salute: goalkeeper Maddie Hinch, kayak single 200m sprint king Liam Heath, sailor Giles Scott. There were old favourites to hail once again: Andy Murray, Charlotte Dujardin, Mo Farah.
And that is only the Olympics, and a partial retelling of it too.
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Murray won a second Wimbledon men's singles title that was ultimately almost more comfortable than it was nerve-wracking. Danny Willett became the first Briton to win the Masters in 20 years.
And there are still four more months to come, weeks that will bring the Paralympics, a chance for the European team to hold the Ryder Cup for the ninth time in 11 stagings.
What sets these achievements apart is the effect they have on the nation. England rugby's first Grand Slam in 21 years and a clean sweep in the three-match away series in Australia were pleasures almost exclusively for the English. So too Northern Ireland's efforts in getting to the knockout stages of Euro 2016, or Wales' remarkable march to the semi-finals.
This is an unparalleled era to be competing under the Union flag.
A few years ago we had the miracle of a first male Wimbledon champion in 77 years, the rediscovery of the great lost ark of British sport. There was a first British Tour de France champion. Last year, Murray and his team-mates won the Davis Cup for the first time since tennis was played in slacks, Brylcreem and cable-knit pullovers.
That seemed quite enough. But we have moved on now to the age of multiples: Lewis Hamilton closing in on his third Formula One title in a row, Chris Froome winning his third Tour de France in four years, Nicola Adams - the first woman in history to win an Olympic boxing gold - becoming the first to retain one too.
There isn't much left except the America's Cup, and Sir Ben Ainslie is assembling a unit to have a crack at that too.
English football continues to fail on the international stage, but that has been happening for years, and may continue to happen for years to come. It sits in a cursed category of its own, so awash with money at club level that it can afford to price good but not great players at £50m but unable, amidst all the mercantile success, to produce home-grown talent to compete with even the supposed minnows.
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The only fear is the country might somehow start taking it all for granted.
Thirty-sixth in the medal table in 1996, 10th in Sydney 2000 and again in Athens, fourth to wild celebration in Beijing 2008, third in London, second here in Rio. At some stage it will stop being such a surprise, even though the lessons of the lean years that preceded this golden run suggest it should not.
There was a time when sports fans could name all the British gold medallists at an Olympics. A two-year-old child could have done so for Atlanta, since 'Redgrave and Pinsent' are hardly the most testing words to recall.
Now? Lots would get most, but only a few would get the full set.
So it is with the honours governments may dish out. Kenny can have six golds in his sock drawer and not be certain of a knighthood. Farah has won nine global track titles in a row and is not yet a sir.
Sports Personality of the Year? Good luck with whittling it down to the traditional shortlist of 10, let alone choosing your winner. A special time, at least until the next Olympic cycle tops it again.


"It's like deja vu, all over again," baseball coach Yogi Berra once famously said.

And you'd be forgiven for thinking the same about UK airport expansion. We always seem to have been here before.
Ever since Gatwick and Heathrow airports opened for business in the Thirties and Forties, arguments have raged over how best to cater for Britain's burgeoning demand for air travel.
The debates seem endless and progress has been bedevilled by politics.
Recent history is littered with inquiries, commissions, consultations, studies and reports resulting in very little, but costing taxpayers millions.
Here's a reminder of UK aviation's chequered history.
The Wilson government sets up the Roskill Commission to look into the pros, cons and costs of a third London airport. Two years and many hundreds of pages later, the Commission recommends Cublington in rural Buckinghamshire as the best location for a new airport. The burghers of Bucks are not best pleased: beacons burn on hilltops and church bells peal across the county in protest. Ironically, Roskill dismisses Stansted as a location.
The recommendation is roundly dismissed by the new Heath government, which instead plumps for another Roskill option, Maplin Sands, Foulness - mudflats in the Thames Estuary near Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The idea was to build on the reclaimed land, but it was the most expensive of Roskill's four recommendations.
The Maplin Sands idea slides into the sea. The previous year's embargo by Arab oil producers - known as the 1973 oil crisis - sends shockwaves through the global economy and fuel costs rocketing. The need to reduce costs becomes a priority. Good news for wading birds; bad news for ousted prime minister Ted Heath. Meanwhile, France opens its shiny new Charles-de-Gaulle four-runway airport near Paris. Sacre bleu.
The Callaghan government's aviation white paper identifies Heathrow capacity as "restricted",  and the following year the incoming Thatcher government decides against building a new international airport, despite acknowledging that "Heathrow capacity is virtually exhaustedâ€¦" Instead, it envisages developing regional airports and expanding Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted "as the traffic develops". Heathrow Terminal 4 opens in 1986.
The government commissions a new study into airports called the Runway Capacity in the South East Study. Three long years later it concludes that expanding Heathrow "would afford the greatest benefits" and British Airways backs the idea of an extra runway. No extra runway materialises.
Secretary of State for Transport Brian Mawhinney rejects proposed new runways for Gatwick and Heathrow but says the government will explore how to squeeze more capacity out of the existing runways.
New Blair government, new aviation policy. A Transport White Paper says the government will "prepare a UK airports policy looking some 30 years ahead". This inevitably entails another time-consuming inquiry - the South East of England Regional Air Services Study - exploring how increasing demand for air travel will affect airport capacity. The Department for Transport begins a three-year consultation on The Future of Aviation.
This results in the government's Future of Air Transport White Paper which recommends a third runway at Heathrow - sound familiar? - greater use of Heathrow's existing two runways and possibly an extra three runways at Stansted. Oh, and the previous Tory government's aspiration to expand regional airports. As the UK chases its tail, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport opens its fifth runway.
"Heathrow expansion plans unveiled" the BBC reports on 22 November 2007. Guess what? They include a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. With Terminal 5 due to open the following year, it seems we're better at building terminals than runways. Announcing the consultation, the government says any expansion would have to conform to noise and pollution limits - the perennial sticks with which to beat the developers.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson proposes a new airport far out in the Thames Estuary at Shivering Sands, subsequently nicknamed Boris Island. Will it fare any better than the other Estuary proposals, normally rejected on cost and environmental grounds?
Gordon Brown's Labour government backs a third runway at Heathrow, but this is opposed by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the first Thatcher government originally supported the idea.
Politics intervenes once again as the new Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government puts Gordon Brown out to grass. It immediately rules out new runways at Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted. Back to square one.
What happens when there's a new government? A new consultation, this time called a "scoping document" on how to develop a "sustainable framework for UK aviation". Meanwhile, Heathrow is full to bursting, operating at 99.2% capacity. Frankfurt airport opens its fourth runway.
The government launches yet another consultation on the "draft aviation policy framework", and sets up the Airports Commission chaired by economist Sir Howard Davies. The Commission is tasked with assessing what extra capacity UK airports will need and inevitably publishes consultation documents. It's like Groundhog Day.
The Airports Commission shortlists three options to increase capacity, and we're back to the Gatwick and Heathrow new or extended runways idea. The next year, the Boris Island idea is sunk.
Sir Howard publishes his final recommendations. Will the new Conservative government finally grasp the nettle and make a decision or, as history suggests, kick the can further down the road?
As Yogi Berra had it: "The future ain't what it used to be."


Ahmed 'Mido' Hossam says maintaining discipline will be key as he returns to coach Egyptian champions Zamalek for a second time.

He replaces Brazilian coach Marcos Paqueta, who was sacked on Sunday.
Mido will be working alongside Hazem Emam, who has been appointed as the club's football director.
"We'll work towards the future, to rebuild the team, maintain discipline and set a new clear working system," Mido told Al Ahram newspaper.
Emam is also a former Zamalek player and while they did not play together at club level, they played alongside each other for Egypt at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations.
The duo were in Qatar working as TV analysts when the decision was taken and are set to return on Monday and start work immediately as the team prepares for Tuesday's league match against Dakhlia.
"Time is limited which makes it impossible to make any changes before tomorrow's game. I will depend on the current formation for the game against Dakhlia," he said.
"Then I will focus on the determined players, who'll be selected to play based on their effort and determination to play and win."
The former Libya coach Paqueta had only been in charge since November and oversaw just five games during which time they won just once, drew twice and lost twice.
The results left Zamalek fifth in the Egyptian Premier League, one place and one point behind their great rivals Al Ahly.
"I still believe that Zamalek is the strongest team this season, even more than Al Ahly, and is capable of defending its title," Mido insisted.
"It's still too early to tell who will win this season's title - it is only in week 12 and both Ahly and Zamalek have three games in hand."
Mido retired from playing in 2013 and took on his first coaching role in January 2014 when he took over at his former club Zamalek.
During his first season in charge, Zamalek finished third in the league and secured a place in last year's Confederation Cup.
He also won the Egypt Cup, making him the youngest Egyptian manager to win a major trophy.
But at the end of July 2014 Mido was replaced by Hossam Hassan following some modest performances and results as well as differences with the club management.
A year later, he took over at Ismaili but after just six months Mido once again started having differences with the club's board regarding the team's star player Hosni Abd Rabou.
A row between the two on the touchline during a league match recently did not go down well with the club's fans and prompted Mido to step down from his post.


An 80-year-old man who taught at a Cardiff mosque has denied 15 child sex offences at Cardiff Crown Court.

Mohammed Haji Sadiq, of Cyncoed, entered the not guilty pleas at a hearing on Friday.
The allegations involve four girls, aged between five and 11, and allegedly took place at the Madina mosque between 1996 and 2006.
Mr Sadiq is due to stand trial later in June.
He is charged with eight counts of assaulting a girl under the age of 13 by touching and seven of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 14.
Mr Sadiq taught at the mosque between 1976 and 2006. It is understood he has had no involvement with the mosque since then.


United Russia, backed by President Vladimir Putin, is far ahead in the nation's parliamentary election, taking at least 44%, exit polls suggest.

Mr Putin said: "We can say with certainty that the party has achieved a very good result."
The nationalist LDPR and the Communist party are way behind United Russia, with about 14-16% each.
Liberal opposition parties appear to have failed to pass the 5% threshold needed for party-list representation.
However, the exit polls say though they could still get seats in individual constituencies.
A VTsIOM exit poll gave United Russia, led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, 44.5%, with the Public Opinion Foundation putting its total higher, at 48.7%.
Partial official results later confirmed a large lead.
The two exit polls differed on whether the LDPR or Communists were second, but both were well behind.
A Just Russia was fourth on about 8%.
These four parties had dominated the last State Duma (lower house).
Two opposition parties, Yabloko and Parnas, were projected to receive 3.5 and 1.2% respectively.
The turnout was significantly down from the 2011 elections - just below 40% two hours before voting ended.
Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova said she was "fully confident that the elections are proceeding in a quite legitimate way".
In the system of "Managed Democracy" crafted by the Kremlin, it was unthinkable that President Putin's control of parliament would weaken.
And so, the four pro-Kremlin parties which dominated the previous parliament will do so again. But will the new parliament be recognised by the public as legitimate?
The Russian authorities have tried to present this as one of the cleanest elections in years. Some opposition candidates were permitted to run; a respected human rights advocate was appointed head of the Russian Election Commission.
Yet throughout the day there have been reports of voting fraud - and video to back them up. In some cases, webcams installed at polling stations recorded what appear to be election officials stuffing ballot boxes.
It was vote-rigging which sparked anti-government street protests after the last parliamentary election. President Putin will be hoping that this time his personal popularity, combined with widespread apathy, will mean that Russians accept the result.
Allegations of fraud after the last election had sparked large-scale protests against Mr Putin in Moscow and the authorities were anxious to oversee trouble-free polls this time.
Mr Putin has enjoyed 17 years in power as either president or prime minister, and does not belong to any designated party.
But he visited the headquarters of United Russia with Mr Medvedev after the vote to congratulate activists on their victory.
"We know that life is hard for people, there are lots of problems, lots of unresolved problems," Mr Putin said. "Nevertheless, we have this result."
Voters were choosing 450 MPs in the State Duma for the next five years.
But despite Russia's economic malaise and tensions with the West over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, some observers had called the election campaign the dullest in recent memory.
Serious irregularities were reported in one Siberian region, with suggestions of "carousel" voting - people bussed around polling stations - in the city of Barnaul.
Monitoring group Golos says it had received more than 1,300 complaints from around the country by late afternoon, AP reports.
For the first time, people voted in Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move condemned internationally.


A management buyout is planned in a bid to save a closure-threatened oil refinery in Milford Haven.

The managing director of Murco Tom McKinlay has taken a leave of absence as part of the proposal for the Pembrokeshire plant.
A potential Â£300m deal including the refinery broke down last month leaving its future in jeopardy.
A task force was set up to try to prevent the closure and protect 400 jobs.
By Brian MeechanBBC Wales business correspondent
It's an interesting development that Mr McKinlay has taken temporary leave in the hopes of putting together a deal and brings another potential buyer on to the market - one who knows the industry and the refinery.
But all the challenges that have prevented a sale so far remain in place and time is running out as the plant potentially faces closure.
The refinery has been a major employer at the port since it opened in 1973.
Murco has confirmed that Mr McKinlay has left his position to avoid a conflict of interest.
Mr McKinlay is said to have announced the move to Murco employees on Friday.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart has said the refinery is "integral to the fabric of the oil and gas infrastructure in Wales and the Welsh economy".


Education Secretary Nicky Morgan offered no concessions over controversial plans to force all of England's schools to become academies.

Mrs Morgan was pressed by MPs on whether she was committed to pushing the plan forward as legislation.
"That is the government's position," she told the education select committee.
Mrs Morgan told MPs that the changes to schools would create a "strong, consistent system".
But Labour's Ian Mearns questioned how she could run a school system which could have 10,000 separate academy trusts.
The education secretary was questioned on her academy plans by the cross-party committee of MPs.
Earlier at Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron said he was committed to pushing ahead with the school plans in the Queen's Speech.
"I'm very clear - academies are great, academies for all is a good policy," he said.
There has been criticism from Conservative backbenchers who have doubted whether outstanding schools should be forced to convert to academy status.
But the education secretary argued that a "dual system", with academy and local authority schools, would be less efficient than a single, compulsory model for running the country's schools.
Mrs Morgan said schools wanted certainty about their future - and that so far a "fear of the unknown" had discouraged primary schools from choosing to become academies.
And she rejected the idea that schools should feel that academy status was something to be "inflicted".
"I don't think it's a question of inflicting anything on anybody.
"I think it is a question of offering people the opportunity to be autonomous and run themselves."
But she was pressed by MPs on why school autonomy should not extend to allowing schools to decide whether to be academies.
And she was challenged by Labour's Ian Austin for any evidence to show that academy status was linked to school improvement.
There were also concerns raised about plans which would allow academy trusts to operate without any parent governors.
There has been strong opposition to the all-academy plan from local government - and this has prompted claims that the government might compromise by allowing local authorities to create their own academy trusts.
But Mrs Morgan gave no support to the idea, saying that individuals from councils could set up trusts, but not councils as organisations.
The education secretary was asked by Conservative Michelle Donelan whether the plans needed more time.
Mrs Morgan said that many of the proposals could be delivered without changes to the law - and that at present she could not say "what's in the detail of the legislation".
Labour's shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, said it was still unclear whether the government intended to seek new powers.
"Unless there is explicit legislation in the Queen's Speech to force good and outstanding schools to become academies, schools should take the message loud and clear that the government is back-pedalling."


Making it through to the final of The Voice 2017 are... drum roll please... Michelle John, Mo Adeniran, Into The Ark and Jamie Miller!

After a close semi-final, Max Vickers, Craig Ward, Truly Ford and Jason Jones were sent home.
This means Gavin Rossdale is the only coach without any acts in the final.
In no particular order, take a look at The Voice 2017 finalists.
Act: Into the Ark
Coach: Tom Jones
Into the Ark are made up of 20-year-old Taylor Jones and 25-year-old Dane Lloyd from South Wales.
They met when they were teenagers and found out they had the same taste in music.
They've been playing together ever since!
Act: Michelle John
Coach: Will.i.am
When she was little, Michelle started singing in her local Gospel Choir.
So far in her career, she's worked with lots of different musicians including Ed Sheeran.
She's even performed at a concert for Barack Obama at The White House.
Michelle was a vocal coach on an old TV singing contest called Pop Idol but now she's front of stage and ready for the final.
Act: Mo Adeniran
Coach: Jennifer Hudson
Twenty-one-year-old Mo was asked to audition for The Voice after people heard him sing at an open mic night.
He almost teamed up with his housemate, Max Vickers, to perform as a duo but they decided they weren't ready.
Sadly, his friend Max is out of the show but Mo is still in with a chance of winning The Voice.
Act: Jamie Miller
Coach: Jennifer Hudson
At 19-years-old, Jamie is the youngest finalist in The Voice 2017.
He quit his job for a chance on the show and has a supportive family in Cardiff.
Jamie's been singing since primary school and his older sisters are pretty proud of their brother for getting this far.
Good luck to all four finalists!


Rock star Paul Weller has won £10,000 for his children after their pictures were "plastered" on the Mail Online.

The High Court in London ordered Associated Newspapers to pay the damages after Weller complained.
Seven paparazzi photos were published in October 2012 under the headline "A family day out: Paul Weller takes wife Hannah and his twin sons out for a spot of shopping in the hot LA sun".
The couple said the shots were "plainly voyeuristic".
They sued Associated Newspapers, which publishes the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and Metro, for misuse of private information on behalf of their daughter Dylan, who was 16 when the pictures appeared online, and twin sons John-Paul and Bowie, who were 10 months old.
The one-time frontman of The Jam and the Style Council was not at London's High Court to hear the ruling by Mr Justice Dingemans.
A paparazzo had followed the family on a shopping trip in Santa Monica, California, and took photographs without their consent despite being asked to stop.
David Sherborne, lawyer for the Weller family, said Hannah Weller - the mother of the twins - had not been in the public eye before her marriage and had taken active steps to prevent their faces being seen in the media.
Photos taken in the street, and not in circumstances such as premieres or for promotion, were a "blatant impediment to the natural social progress of children", he said.
In court, Associated Newspapers argued the images, in which the children's faces were not pixellated, were entirely innocuous and inoffensive and the Wellers had previously chosen to open up their private family life to public gaze to a significant degree.
Following Wednesday's ruling, the organisation said it planned to appeal.
"The photographs showed nothing more than Paul Weller and three of his children out and about in public places," said a spokesman.
"There was no claim and no finding that we had followed, harassed or targeted Mr Weller or his children and no request had ever been made to pixellate the children's faces.
"Our publication of the images was entirely in line with the law in California where they were taken by a freelance photographer.
"The suggestion that children have an expectation of privacy in relation to publication by the media of images of their faces when one child (now nearly 18) has modelled for Teen Vogue, images of the babies' naked bottoms have been tweeted by their mother, and their father has discussed the children in promotional interviews is a worrying development in our law, as it has conferred unfettered image rights on all the children.
"This judgment has wide-ranging and serious consequences not only for local, national and international digital journalism but for anyone posting pictures of children on social networks. We intend to appeal."
The judge agreed the images could have been published legally in California, but said their appearance in the UK violated the right to privacy enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.
"There was no relevant debate of public interest to which the publication of the photographs contributed. The balance of the general interest of having a vigorous and flourishing newspaper industry does not outweigh the interests of the children in this case," he added.
Weller recently announced a new greatest hits collection, More Modern Classics, featuring songs from the last 15 years of his solo career, including From The Floorboards Up, That Dangerous Age and new single Brand New Toy.


Barring last minute hitches, Guineans will vote on Sunday in a long-delayed run-off poll to elect their president in the West African nation's first democratic election since independence in 1958.

A combination of incompetence on the part of the electoral commission, disagreements between the two presidential candidates and violence between rival supporters have delayed the poll that should have been held two weeks after the first round in June.
Now, after four postponements and the appointment of a new head of the electoral commission, the stage finally seems set.
"I can now safely say that all is now ready for the holding of election on Sunday 7 November," new electoral commissioner Toumany Sangare, a Malian-born army general, told the press this week.
Former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) and veteran opposition leader Alpha Conde of the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), who came first and second respectively from a pack of 24 contestants in the first round, will slug it out for the country's top job.
But the fact that the two men represent the two most populous ethnic groups in the country has marred the run-up to the poll.
Mr Diallo represents the Peul ethnic group (also known as the Fula) while Mr Conde wears the crown for the Malinkes.
There have been two serious clashes between their supporters during the campaign - the second only a week ago, provoking the large-scale displacement of Peul from areas of Upper Guinea in the Malinke heartland.
This led to the banning of campaigning for Sunday's poll.
Despite the problems, Guineans generally are determined to vote in a new president, who they hope can improve their lives.
"We will vote for a new president in spite of the threats posed by violence as this is the only way forward for this nation," Jalikatou Sankhon, a housewife in the capital, Conakry, told the BBC.
Mahmoud Diallo, who sells radio sets in the city, agreed.
"We are prepared to vote because whoever wins, Cellou or Alpha, it's Guineans who should take pride in the fact that they've finally ushered in real democracy in their country after over half-a-century."
The international community including individual countries like the US, France and the UK, and institutions including the African Union, West African body Ecowas, the European Union and others have backed the democratic effort from day one and are still committed.
Guinea has the largest deposits of bauxite in the world but poor management and corruption by the previous two dictatorial regimes of first President Sekou Toure and then Lansana Conte have rendered Guineans among the poorest on the continent and indeed the world.
Alpha Conde
Cellou Dalein Diallo
This is why both candidates have both pledged to make raising living standards for the average Guinean a top priority.
"I will restore the dignity of Guineans commensurate to the potential wealth the country possess and this includes ensuring that every Guinean gets three square meals a day," Mr Diallo promised.
For his part, Mr Conde told his supporters: "The average Guinean has no business living in such abject poverty and squalor in the midst of plentiful resources and that will be a priority for me as president."
Guinea has remained on the bottom rung of the global index on countries' economic performance despite its potential mineral wealth and human resources.
This is why the international community has taken the trouble to help ensure that, in the words of one EU official, "Guinea returns to the fold of civilised nations".
And this could well be the case by Sunday evening at the close of polling, particularly with Gen Sangary at the head of the electoral commission - a man in whom Guineans appear to have total confidence.
When a new civilian president is finally in place, it will end decades of military influence in the governance of this country.
Current interim military leader Gen Sekouba Konate, unlike previous military rulers, has showed immense willingness to hand over political power to where it belongs - to civilians.


Thousands of people flocked to Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides for the first part of the Great North Run weekend.

About 6,000 youngsters took part in the Mini and Junior Great North Run, with a Great North 5k (3.1 miles) also staged.
Elite athletes were in attendance for the Great North City Games, although long jump world champion Greg Rutherford withdrew through injury.
A crowd of 25,000 was expected by organisers.
Taking part in the Great North City Games was 200m world champion Dafne Schippers, who raced to victory on a 100m track constructed on the banks of the Tyne.
Rutherford and 5,000m and 10,000m world champion Mo Farah took part in a penalty shoot-out at a launch event at Newcastle United's St James's Park stadium on Friday.
The Great North Run half marathon will be staged on Sunday with more than 50,000 people taking on the 13.1 mile course from Newcastle to South Shields.
It will be the 35th staging of the event, which began as a fun run in 1981.
Farah is aiming for his second consecutive victory in the men's elite race, which gets under way at 10:40 BST.


A leading British scientist has said that the discovery of a 419-million-year-old fish fossil in China is a stunning and spectacular development.

Palaeobiologist Matt Friedman told the BBC that the fish provided crucial evidence about the evolutionary development of jawed vertebrates.
As a remote relative of humans, it provides important evolutionary clues.
"It is the deepest branch of our family tree that bears the kinds of jaw bones found in humans," Dr Friedman said.
The fossil was found at China's Xiaoxiang Reservoir, and was reported by the journal Nature on Thursday.
Scientists say that the heavily armoured fish, Entelognathus primordialis, is a previously unknown member of jawed vertebrates also known as gnathostomes. It has a complex small skull and jaw-bone structure.
"This is an unexpected discovery that inverts schoolbook teaching on the evolution of bony skulls," Dr Friedman told the BBC.
"Up until now it had been thought that the anatomical peculiarities of bony fishes - the group that would eventually give rise to human beings - are specialisations that arose later in vertebrate evolutionary history in our own bony fish lineage."
"But now that narrative has been turned on its head."
Dr Friedman said that the fish's jaw was much more like that of a modern bony fish - which is why its discovery may offer a new perspective on the early evolution of these creatures.
His review of the significance of the fossil find also appears in the latest edition of Nature.
Scientists say that the evolution of jaws is one of the key episodes in the evolution of vertebrates, but the gap between jawed and jawless vertebrates is so large that it is hard to work out the individual evolutionary steps in the transition.
"While this fossil does not tell us anything about the origin of jawed fishes from jawless ones, it does tell us about subsequent modifications to jaw structure that we thought were unique to bony fishes," Dr Friedman said.
It is thought that modern jawed vertebrates, such as sharks and bony fishes, emerged from a collection of jawed, armoured fishes known as placoderms.
Entelognathus primordialis has jaw-bone features previously restricted to bony fishes (osteichthyans) as well as full body armour seen in placoderms, and it would have been around 20cm (7.8in) long.
Dr Friedman says that the fossil adds weight to the theory that many classic bony fish features were evolved "very deep in our family tree, before bony fish split from sharks".
"This means that we - as in bony fishes - are the ones who have held on to more ancient structures, while it is the sharks that have gone off and done something new and interesting in an evolutionary sense.
"They are the ones that have most radically modified this pattern, which we now understand is probably primitive to all modern jawed vertebrates."


A Philippine mayor accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of having links with the illegal drugs trade has been shot dead in a police raid.

Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of the city of Ozamiz on Mindanao island, was killed with his wife and 10 others at his home as police served a warrant.
Officers were fired on by the mayor's security guards, officials said.
More than 7,000 people are said to have been killed since Mr Duterte launched a war on the drugs trade in July 2016.
Police were serving an arrest warrant when they were "met with a volley of fire" by Mr Parojinog's security guards, officials said.
"The Parojinogs, if you would recall, are included in President Duterte's list of people involved in the illegal drug trade," Mr Duterte's spokesman, Ernesto Abella, said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Parojinogs denied that there had been any exchange of fire and said the mayor's camp did not fire a shot.
Mr Parojinog's brother was also killed in the dawn raid in Ozamiz. His daughter, the city's vice-mayor, was arrested and faces charges relating to drugs offences, police said.
Officers recovered rifles, cash and illegal drugs at the address, according to provincial police chief Jaysen De Guzman.
Mr Parojinog is the third Philippine mayor to be killed in the government's bloody narcotics crackdown, in which Mr Duterte has singled out local officials, policemen and judges.
The move has made him popular with many Filipinos but has been condemned by human rights groups and other critics.
Mr Duterte took office just over a year ago following an election campaign in which he promised to kill tens of thousands in order to put an end to the illegal drugs trade.
Earlier this month, legislators in the Philippines voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law in Mindanao to help deal with violence on the island linked to an Islamist insurgency.
Mr Duterte said the extension was necessary to crush the insurgency, but his critics have said that it is part of a wider power grab.


Derby County secured their place in the Championship play-off final at Wembley as they beat Brighton 4-1 to clinch a 6-2 aggregate semi-final victory.

The Rams, who led 2-1 after the first leg, extended their lead when Will Hughes flicked in Jamie Ward's cross.
Chris Martin bundled the ball over the line after Ward's knock-down and George Thorne volleyed in a spectacular third.
Jeff Hendrick made it 4-0 after Patrick Bamford's pull-back, before Kazenga Lua Lua's consolation from 18 yards.
"It has been a great day for Derby and they thoroughly deserved it.
"They looked a far better team, but credit to Brighton. They have got to the play-offs for two years running, but they were just outplayed by Derby."
Brighton, who have never played in the Premier League, have lost in the play-offs in two successive seasons.
But this was a deserved victory for Derby, who will play either Wigan Athletic or Queens Park Rangers in the final on Saturday, 24 May.
Steve McClaren's side, who finished 13 points above their opponents, benefited from a controversial 22nd-minute decision from referee Craig Pawson.
He only booked Hendrick for a lunge on Brighton's Rohan Ince when he could easily have sent the midfielder off.
And the hosts were in front 12 minutes later, when Hughes back-heeled Ward's left-wing delivery home for his first goal since 9 November.
Derby, who were last in the top flight in the 2007-08 season, nearly made it 2-0 on the night as Ward charged down Tomasz Kuszczak's attempted clearance, but the ball bounced over the bar.
Derby County have won seven and drawn one of their past eight games
Brighton's top goalscorer Leonardo Ulloa had a chance to pull a goal back when he collected Jesse Lingard's intelligent lofted pass, only to be denied by Lee Grant's excellent save.
Any hopes of a fightback ended in the 56th minute as Martin grabbed his 25th goal of the season following Ward's unselfish header across the face of goal.
Oscar Garcia's side fell further behind on 76 minutes as Thorne volleyed in a spectacular third after Brighton failed to clear Johnny Russell's shot.
It was 4-0 when Hendrick converted after fine work from Bamford, though Lua Lua did at least give Brighton fans something to cheer with a composed finish from the edge of the penalty area.
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This was Derby's day, though, and they can look forward to a trip to Wembley.
They will learn the identity of their final opponents on Monday, when QPR and Wigan play their second leg at Loftus Road after a 0-0 draw at the DW Stadium.
Derby manager Steve McClaren said:
"It is a great achievement by the players. We did not perform as we can on Thursday but they were awesome today, wearing Brighton down with their energy, enthusiasm and bringing the end product as well.
"It is a one-off game at Wembley and if we play like that we are a match for anyone."
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Brighton manager Oscar Garcia said:
"They were much better than us and deserved the win.
"We have had a lot of injuries and we played the most important game of the season with four or five under-21 players.
"We wanted to give everything and gamble, but it didn't pay off. They are extremely good in front of goal and we did not play very well, but we have no regrets."