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Barry Venison, enjoying something of an Indian summer at Newcastle, was another beneficiary and Arsenal's Steve Bould got a belated call to see if his club partnership with Tony Adams could transfer to international football.

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His congregation heeded his advice, but Bould himself came out, clad in a cassock, to explain that the PCC's decision had not been put to the congregation and he did not know how many would go over to Rome.

Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

Bould added a statement of his own: Until yesterday, St Peter's people were on a quiet and gentle journey of prayer and discernment.

Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

Him and Bould were probably more like Hunter and Charlton that way, or Miller and McLeish.

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Not all the church's parishioners apparently feel happy with the idea of conversion, but Bould warned his flock at the end of the mass: Please, if you are approached by people from the press or media outside, read our statement out and smile.

Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

Bould told his ageing flock: It is a battle we are fighting now.

Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

You might wonder why there is a need for Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville (Wesleyan), but Marxists are actually very fond of science fiction.

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But it was another battle, in a different sort of see, that was clearly uppermost in the mind of the priest, Father Stephen Bould: his parish may be the first to defect wholesale from the Church of England to Rome following Pope Benedict XVI's offer of a safe harbour for Anglicans disaffected by their church's decision to allow women priests to become bishops.

Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

• Finsbury could offer its services to Father Stephen Bould, whose parish in Folkestone, Kent, may be the first to defect wholesale from the Church of England to Rome because of the former's embrace of female bishops.

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By my reckoning, however, any manager of a leading team who can assemble an outstanding back four and keep them all fit throughout next season, in the manner of Parker, Pallister, Bruce and Irwin for Ferguson's first great United side, or Dixon, Adams, Bould and Winterburn for George Graham's Arsenal, will be on to a winner.

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