Friends and foes alike are not expecting the grim reaper to come calling just yet, though, his most bitter detractors have often been heard exclaiming "he never dies".
Mr. McCourt, who made his fortune in parking lots, bought the club for $430 million in 2004 but had since been maligned as an imprudent team owner whose bitter public detractors include his ex-wife, Jamie.
Even Ronda Rousey, quite possibly the closest comparison to Angle, has those weird, mostly bitter and nerdy detractors.
Somewhere between the "D-Notice" episode and the editor of clickbait site The Canary appearing on Question Time, the antipathy between professional journalists and their social media detractors reached some kind of bitter zenith.
But even detractors of his own hard and bitter writing are starting to feel slightly sorry for him.
For all the envious, bitter and often justified carping of their many detractors, it is probably only a matter of time before they are grudgingly accepted on a more widespread scale.
The National Front was now "the only force of opposition in our country".To her detractors, Ms Le Pen's appointment was bitter confirmation of the boss's dynasticism.
Farage's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to win South Thanet became particularly bitter and divisive at some points, with Ukip's supporters and detractors claiming to have been subject to intimidation and dirty tactics.
He's neither bitter nor cranky, and he's often wittier than the very detractors who think big-city liberals have a monopoly on political wit.
Initial critical reaction was harsh, and the film's screening at the Venice Film Festival was the occasion of a bitter controversy that escalated into a public brawl between Fellini's supporters and detractors.
An Ivy League WASP in the largely Jewish C.C.N.Y. circles of the Partisan Review set, he found himself on the bitter outs with many of his intellectual confreres when he defended Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" against its detractors.
