1.   All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.

2.   Along with the points from the latter, that would mean an immediate ban.

3.   Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment, the first of the season at the third attempt.

4.   How can new Liverpool bludgeon United into mediocrity yet take only one point from their previous league fixtures against Leicester and Derby?

5.   No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.

6.   Part of the skill of the interviewer is in extracting different salient points from individuals and appropriately weighting totally disparate facets.

7.   The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming.

8.   They need three points from the last four games to be certain of retaining the title.

9.   They still gets points from me for expressing an opinion.