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Such is the impact the left-footed winger had the season before last that Ferreira tried, in vain, to convince the club board not to sell him.

Luis Neves, the National Director of the Polícia Judiciária, the Portuguese equivalent of the FBI, said at the end of the week that, "nothing is in vain, not least because doors are being closed".

But even though President Trump didn't manage to get a rise out of the South African president, that does not mean his efforts over more than an hour were in vain; they certainly were not.

Successive governments have battled largely in vain to reduce net migration, which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving.

“A life ended too soon. May it not be in vain,” the obituary said.