Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven't panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy's sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that's been constructed so far doesn't have any major weaknesses in it at all.
GP Midway through DC United's game against Montreal Impact, just after Eddie Johnson had once again narrowly missed being on the spot for a chipped through ball, DC coach Chad Ashton remarked to a sideline interviewer that when the striker's first DC goal came, that then "they'd start coming in bunches".
Any concept of fairness to the British public was a sideline here.
That lost generation of talent - so poorly managed under a succession of coaches (most notably Robbie Deans and Ewen McKenzie) and out-of-touch Australian Rugby Union regimes - would have as its beginning the 2010 Bledisloe Cup fixture in Hong Kong, won 26-24 by the Wallabies at the death, courtesy of a James O'Connor try and sideline conversion.
The evening ended with Pochettino a frustrated spectator on the sideline and with this tie in the balance.
Up until that day, the party had acted as the sideline coach for the promising young prospect of the peace process called Sinn Fein.
Perhaps Halladay should have mentioned that one reason the team has the worst staff ERA in the National League is because he's been on the sideline all season, but those comments were suspiciously missing from his statements.
Morris smothers the ball brilliantly and holds Boyd as reinforcements bump Boyd over the sideline.
The hosts were staring at a 14-0 hole when playmaker Jamie Soward joined Moylan on the sideline after a late hit from Pauli Pauli midway through the second half that saw the Eels forward placed on report.
That neutrality too often tends to sideline regional papers during general elections so I welcome an innovation by Trinity Mirror's regional division to give its titles a role and a purpose this time around.
With the burgeoning housing crisis, landlords are more likely to view letting properties as a profession than a sideline.
