"If we're running a race against their most articulate guy," Steve Schmidt, John McCain's former campaign manager, told me, referring to President Obama, "we should put our most articulate guy.
He is more Dave Pelz than Harvey Penick.
On Twitter, Jessica Martin said: "Cannot actually believe what's happened!
Steve Hibbert, bar manager at the Oaks Working Men's Club, where Pugh is employed, said he was shocked to see him being carried away from the scene on a stretcher in television footage.
"Think of the entrepreneur as Steve Jobs as he develops the iPod, J.K. Rowling as she writes her Harry Potter books, or Steven Spielberg as he directs his blockbuster movies.
As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
In 1952 we visited Villa Park and the Villa manager, George Martin, asked our manager if we had any promising players.
Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, refused to call a halt to this odd situation (which internally is now referred to as Nespressogate) even after being warned in writing more than a year ago by the joint leaders of the Green Group that coffee farmers in Latin America are facing "a real hunger crisis".
Hodgson and the Steve Borthwick returned to strengthen the side and, unsurprisingly, the game developed into an arm wrestle between the two packs with Hodgson and Stephen Myler exchanging a series of penalties.
"I'm really disappointed and I'm really angry," Steve McClaren said.
