slap-bang

The questions hanging over England are being asked slap-bang in the middle of the Stokes-McCullum era.

Facebook is only 18 but it’s slap-bang in the middle of a mid-life crisis, with user numbers declining and TikTok eating its Gen Z lunch.

That is a rather more complex issue than normal, of course, because there is a great big World Cup slap-bang in the middle of next season.

And while the audience will be able to piece together the plot’s timeline, Zeller’s relentlessly subjective approach places us slap-bang in the middle of Anthony’s distorted memories.

He does find him, though only by blootering the ball slap-bang in his startled face.