Who, then, might be bracketed alongside him?
In 1967, however, it was deemed good enough to be bracketed alongside The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde.
He can now be bracketed alongside Nottingham Forest's Mark Crossley, who denied Le Tissier his 100% record in 1993.
The two main contenders are only brought together in the directing category, where O Russell and McQueen are bracketed alongside Paul Greengrass (for Captain Phillips, Alexander Paynee (Nebraska) and Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity).
A trade dispute over subsidies promptly broke out between America and the European Union.See article: Thank you, SingaporeBanking on itThere were mega-mergers in investment banking, as several firms tried to force their way into the "bulge bracket" alongside Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Merrill Lynch.
He added: "I suppose in the context I could understand why giants like Delia and Michael Palin might be a bit miffed to find themselves bracketed alongside a clown like me, but I doubt they really give a damn".
Ireland have landed France, Italy, Americas 1 and Europe 2 in Pool D, while Scotland are in with Pool B rivals South Africa, Samoa, Asia 1 and Americas 2. The All Blacks, meanwhile, look to have secured the easiest pool, being bracketed alongside Argentina, Tonga, Europe 1 and Africa 1.
If it were a disproportionate punishment – set high because the offence was bracketed alongside eye-gouging rather than coming under the provisions of a dangerous tackle or reckless challenge – there had been a drive by World Rugby to deter players from wrapping a hand around the face of an opponent.
Until now it would never have occurred to me to bracket Borat alongside United 93, or for that matter Bobby alongside Touching the Void.
It is a status he has maintained ever since, as was backhandedly corroborated a few years ago when the novelist Tom Wolfe, in an attack on what he saw as a timidity in the American novel, bracketed Irving alongside John Updike and Norman Mailer as "My Three Stooges".
