The diplomacy scenes were admittedly a touch broadly drawn, but Amy and Nasreen (Meera Syal) negotiating for their race as "the best of humanity" was a delight.
Skybetter: When the Apple Watch was first revealed, I remember thinking (admittedly, with a touch of resentment) that some nerd in a sub-basement at Apple got paid to choreograph the thing.
Ibrahimovic came close with a stinging drive from the edge of the box, which Andriy Pyatov did well to save, admittedly with a touch of fortune, and substitute Johan Elmander spurned a glorious opportunity by blazing wide from a superb position in the box.
Former captains Michael Atherton, Michael Vaughan, Alec Stewart and Kevin Pietersen (though, admittedly, there is a touch of history there) all called for Cook to go.
Admittedly, there's a touch of selfishness about this review insofar as I needed to write it for no other reason than to test my initial reaction against what I know to be true about good filmmaking, as both someone who's on the periphery of filmmaking and as someone with a too-large collection of movies.
Admittedly, comparisons with the Olympic ideal may be a touch unrealistic, but Cheltenham Festival's alternative unofficial title, 'the greatest show on turf', is not far off the mark.
Yes, it's a touching tearjerker, and I admittedly cried at the end, but so what....life is a balance of tears and laughter.
Admittedly, Roberts's book was meant to promote the new modernistic poets, but even so, lip service to the past could have been a touch more courtly.
Just as Tevez warmed up to a smattering of applause, which he acknowledged, Frank Lampard conceded possession and the Italian raced clear only to see Cech get the merest of touches to divert an admittedly tame finish wide.
Half a game, admittedly a half in which Cleverley's touch and timing and vision played a conspicuous part in United's outplaying City, can surely not equal what Sneijder has achieved in the sport.
