Quite apart from most players detesting such pitches, a handful of key England performers, including Steph Houghton, the influential captain, are still working their way back to match fitness following lengthy lay-offs and would have much preferred the rather more forgiving feel of grass beneath their feet.
That is not a verdict that you are likely to hear from the Conservatives or from Labour for that matter, both of which like to appear as parties opposed to mass migration, but the Office for Budget Responsibility makes clear that it is one key factor fuelling Britain's economic recovery.
Assad has been a key factor in making the Middle East the volcano it now is.
If Labour perform better than expected then the UK vote may well be key in forming the course of Europe for the next few years.
As a recent paper published in the journal Nature showed, the Pacific Ocean in particular appears to be the key component of the climate's natural internal variability, and the main culprit behind the slowed global surface warming over the past 15 years.
We like the look of the Island Retreats trip, a low-key journey from Portsmouth to the Scilly Isles, Channel Islands, Brittany and Normandy.
Growing evidence of pressures on China's economy are also seen as a key risk to the eurozone's prospects.
A good place to start is by exploring the history of immigration and emigration to and from Britain with this lesson plan by Teaching Resources Support, suitable for key stage 3 students.
As if to clinch the point, Reid directs me to the key metaphor in the book's first sequence, The Flowers of Crete, in which the seemingly unvanquishable Cretan minotaur is a metaphor for Lucinda's indestructible sarcoma.
Clarke called on pro-Europeans to make the case for the EU more effectively as he called for the fulfilment of Margaret Thatcher's two key European ambitions – completing the single market and expanding the EU by admitting Turkey.
The growing gulf between Saudi Arabia and its more sceptical western partners is nowhere more apparent than in the key area of security and defence cooperation, upon which the relationship was founded in 1915.
