Somewhere deep down, like many of us, I held on to the generally unsustainable belief that we only lost because the rest of the world, with particular reference to Eastern Europeans and Americans (and of course Australians) took it all a bit more seriously than we cared to.
"They're in a good position but I don't know if they're in an ideal position to win a Test match because we've only lost two wickets in our first innings," said Swann.
"That draw gives us a ray of light, because we know that we have only lost here at Meadow Lane twice," Erinle added.
"At the beginning I was furious because I only lost four pounds," said Ms. von Bismarck, a power fashion publicist.
"They're going to fancy their chances because they've only lost by eight points," he added.
That is not over-stating things either, because they have only lost once in the history of the event.
Later, at two in the morning, I rang my mother and confessed how bad things were, and how it was all my fault because I had said we were only losing £120,000 a week when we were losing £140,000.
In addition, we compare both two-stage methods and find that our two-stage method will lose power because we only use part of samples in both two stages.
And you can't really go to your mum, because they've not only lost a grandchild, they know how much it's hurting you".
