When the crisis escalated this summer, several United Nations agencies became involved as well.But from then on it became a muddle.
Their celebratory pre-kick-off huddle became a muddle and, with Koumas resembling a man trying to hitch a lift on the last lap of a grand prix as his defenders humped the ball for Geoff Horsfield and Lee Hughes to chase, they lacked spark.
The work of Glasgow-trained London-based architects MUMA, who brought their skills to bear on the V&A's medieval and renaissance wing, the project breathes new life into what had become a dingy muddle of galleries.
The campaign debate over prescription drugs for the elderly has become a confusing muddle of partisan charges and countercharges, with both sides invoking the standard bogymen of health care debates, from "big government" to "H.M.O.
The setting changes can become a little muddling, but for the most part it was alright.
Along the path to cinematic ubiquity, the narrative of this series has, shall we say, become a tad muddled.
This is a lot to cover in a small space, and there are times when ambition would have been greater fulfilled if it had been more moderated; as it is, the latter years of the war become a bit muddled in the viewer's mind.
I don't think the introduction of impact statements by government funders has been handled as well it might have been, and the message has become a bit muddled, but impact is just a word, and an agenda, and if we re-focus on the real agenda and reclaim the word then I think we can actually make it something we can all agree on.
In 1997 the new Labour government announced reforms to replace what had become an untidy muddle of statutory and self-regulatory bodies with one regulator.
