Not since Robin van Persie had run riot at Stamford Bridge in the distant days of André Villas-Boas's dysfunctional tenure across the capital had Arsenal achieved such a satisfying return from this fixture.
The snaps may not have ruined the honeymoon quite as utterly as Ms Cox maintains, but she was on a private beach attached to a remote villa on a distant island the sort of place where even a celebrity might reasonably expect to frolic unobserved.
The defeat by Aston Villa last week was a distant memory.
As he has shown for both club and country, Michael Bradley's Aston Villa nightmare is now a distant memory.
Klimt, who decked Viennese socialites with erotically suggestive sequins and swirls, turns out to have been a voyeur of landscapes as well, employing a telescope to frame and flatten distant shots of blooming poppy fields and secluded hillside villas.
Much of her time is spent in meetings with defense lawyers or in the villa with Gajic and little Marko, awaiting distant calls from her husband and son.
Here, in the "fortified enclaves" where "all space has been internalised", none of the holiday villas even look out to the sea, a hundred yards distant.
Built on the flat coralline lowlands of the south, with its distant view of Scarborough twinkling like Christmas off to the left, the villa was certainly dramatic - complete with double-height cathedral ceilings and infinity pool.
Currently, she's honing her writing skills in preparation for the not too distant future, when she'll be penning another best-selling novel in a French villa on the Italian coast, drinking English tea and eating Belgian waffles.
Gaze out over the colourful Regency villas behind you, the many fishing boats, the green with its memorial bandstand, or the distant White Cliffs.
His father was an emotionally distant Ameriphobe, making sure his American-living son grew up with the BBC world service, Aston Villa and giant boxes of British candy.
