"Relegation, you're having a laugh" was Tim Sherwood's response to Aston Villa's predicament last weekend and it was easy to see why the manager feels that way after an afternoon when his team's performance did a much better job of warming the home supporters' hearts than the bitterly cold weather.
Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.
To which many of her contemporaries may respond, somewhat bitterly, "if only".
When Laws began his cabinet sabbatical, the broadsheets wept as bitterly as if it were a scene from Les Mis.
Obviously the remarks I've read are bitterly disappointing but my job is bigger than that.
The full account, based on extensive interviews with many of Miliband's closest advisers, also reveals that: Labour felt trapped by the relentless Tory and media focus on the possibility of a Labour tie-up with the SNP, leaving a key adviser to bitterly complain in writing about the BBC's media coverage.
Jonathan Ford, the Football Association of Wales chief executive, said he was "bitterly disappointed" that the Millennium Stadium was not chosen.
But the executives of the big boys, Unite and Unison, will bitterly oppose him.
Many Soviet leaders responsible for the "miracle of 1990" – like the former Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Valentin Falin – have complained bitterly that Mikhail Gorbachev naively trusted the west and gave away so much for so little.
Both the DUP and UUP have been bitterly critical of Alliance's role in ending the policy of flying the union flag at Belfast city hall every day of the year.
"I'm sure Albion fans would be bitterly disappointed if Saido Berahino were to be suddenly injured because we weren't looking after him.
