One brief, unmitigated disaster later, Rangers were returning to the man who self-evidently could not win the trophy they most covet.
His satellite tags had provided vivid new information of the remarkable distances travelled by these unpredictable predators during their brief lives.
It could be a brief Open for Johnson.
Brenda Achao's surprise phone call was brief: she was graduating in commerce from Uganda's prestigious Makerere University the following week and planned to throw a party in her home village in Katine.
Wes Hoolahan converted the second-half penalty after the centre-back was dismissed for deliberate handball and, despite a brief fightback by gallant Ipswich Town, Norwich regained the lead and now they are on their way to Wembley.
Confrontations like Sheehan's are "a pretty typical situation that happens across the country these days", said Ron Honberg, director of policy and legal affairs at the National Alliance for Mental Illness (Nami), which filed a brief supporting her suit.
Salmond sent the former BBC Scotland news executive Blair Jenkins, soon to be Yes Scotland's chief executive but then only a yes vote supporter, to brief the press, yet was unable to answer any key questions about its policies, structure or plans.
The hospital released brief statements from the families of Washington and Pugh.
I want the people fighting the corner for theatre, visual arts, music and museums to have had a taste of the unique thrills and frustrations of the creative sectors, to have witnessed first-hand the extraordinary way the arts affect individuals and communities – and ideally before they take up the brief and attempt to get up to speed (as Jarvis has been doing recently).
When taking up the education brief last month Teather said she wanted to spend time in the classroom.
