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Lineker said that, following his tweets, "the goalposts were massively moved because it was never an issue until, suddenly, this point".

I played in the parks, which were often hard red clay with loose pebbles and stones, with two square goalposts fashioned out of wood and string.

By the skin of their teeth, and the width of a goalpost, the bookmakers were proven right when they made England favourites at Twickenham.

The shifting goalposts have left supervisors’ heads spinning.

A colleague responsible for finance acknowledged that the message on paying for Christmas gifts hadn't always been clear but said: "I don't believe that the goalposts are being moved."