After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.

Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.

Although the trains are still far from becoming overcrowded, it is understood that the efforts to make the services more widely known have borne fruit.

Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit - Leicester City's powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young's corner.

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