The safety-first attitude of clubs in postponing matches, despite playable pitches, appears to be undermining the point of undersoil heating, but caution in the face of a cold snap is understandable.

These are designed to scare gullible traders into offloading their own shares, at which point the HFT investors withdraw their own spoof trades and snap up the real ones.

It was at this point that Yang seemed to "snap" -screaming obscenities in Mandarin while hurling daikon radishes across the table, clearly aiming for the eyes.