His footballing ability made him obvious captain material, just as Gerrard's did at Anfield.
But to satisfy convention, Gilbert creates an obvious absurdity: the captain and Ralph were switched as babies.
Westwood would be an obvious choice as a vice-captain to his good friend and European Ryder Cup captain, Darren Clarke, at Hazeltine, but is just outside the qualifying places after returning from a five-week break to finish 10th in the Irish Open last week.
Richard Lewis, the RFL's chairman who is also the chair of Sport England, is to assemble a panel including performance professionals and at least one former international player – with the ex-Great Britain captain Andy Farrell an obvious contender for that role – to identify suitable candidates.
But Warburton's contest with the England captain Chris Robshaw has an obvious Lions dimension to it, and if the Cardiff Blues player regains the Wales captaincy against the new favourite to lead the British Isles squad to Wallaby country, all eyes will be on the battle of the breakaways.
The book, which boasted Captain America…Commie Smasher! as a subtitle, was an obvious product of the McCarthy era.
Today, the fave (for "favorite") abbreves are obvi (a shortening of "Thank you, Captain Obvious") and belig (a clipping of "belligerent," retaining the soft g).
AT&T boils it down to choice and it really couldn't have done a better job of playing Captain Obvious.
Changing the captain isn't so difficult or unusual, and it seems obvious that (a) Cook is not a good captain and (b) now that results are going the wrong way, his batting form is affected.
