His record - two cups within six months of his appointment, a domestic treble in his first full season, a second title in 2005 and reaching the last 16 of the Champions League - set the context for a rueful but masterfully understated parting comment: "I'm sure those people who look at the facts will say that during a period of downsizing, I was reasonably successful".
Roast monkfish is wrapped in Parma ham and served simply with lentils and baby bok choi while the hunk of braised halibut fillet with leeks, shellfish and saffron potatoes is masterfully assembled.
His drop goal, albeit in the first half when Wales were not yet out on their feet, was masterfully prepared and executed.
Weeks 8 – 10: Learning through reading - Tuesday 10, 17, 24 November Michèle will select passages from literary works, which masterfully demonstrate the type of literary techniques and effects the students are trying, perhaps unsuccessfully, to achieve in their own work.
As a provocation, it was masterfully timed.
As he has masterfully done with his earlier books—one on South Africa's HIV epidemic and another on a murderous struggle over land between white farmers and their black neighbours Mr Steinberg looks at broad social and political themes through the eyes of a single protagonist.
It is a perfect example of the exhibition's purpose, which is to delight visitors while also explaining why rulers collected these very expensive, ornate and masterfully crafted objects.
At 15, he joined them, riding with the psychotic Bill Anderson, who urged his men to scalp and mutilate the Union men they slew.Mr Stiles masterfully strips James bare.
But it cleared the air, enabling the leadership contenders who followed to sparkle and fizz with optimism, without first needing to make their audience feel like losers.Two of the candidates Ken Clarke, a former chancellor, and David Cameron, the shadow education minister accomplished this masterfully.
The gaffe-prone Mr Yanukovich, who addressed Mrs Clinton as "general secretary" a couple of times, appears to have masterfully played Russia and America against each other.
Hence this week's fudges on, for example, jobs: "There are many positive ways to promote employment, including training, tax reform, the modernisation of welfare systems, the promotion of new enterprises and support for the non-market sector," it states, masterfully embracing everything from a rightish clamping down on welfare dependence to a leftish state-subsidising of jobs.
