Who would I report to? fucidin ointment Yet the warning signs had been there had anybody been minded to see them. England's first defeat to continental opposition had come away to Spain in 1929 and had been blamed, in so much as anybody paid it any attention at all, on a hard pitch, hot weather and an excitable crowd that at one point had to be kept off the pitch by officers wielding swords. There was a prevailing sense that football not played in English conditions was barely football at all.