To this point, Mr Hayward's tone has been one of obstinance, avoidance and, to a certain extent, incompetence.
To fans learning hockey from these shenanigans, a certain level of incompetence even passed for cute.
Better that this was the result of cold malice than of abject incompetence, a certain line of thinking goes, because a conspiracy is, by definition, a limited affair.
There may be some comfort in Van Gaal's resurgence as proof that, contrary to popular wisdom, defeat to Arsenal in a must-win game is not a sign of extreme incompetence and certain doom, but realistically any chance of fourth is gone and the season must be considered a failure.
This excludes asymptomatic urinary tract, genital and certain malarial infections, cervical incompetence along with many other complications, provided these were not systematically searched for.
But a dogged march of criminal official incompetence, and near-certain corruption, has accompanied this case every step of the way.
On the other hand, we observed that certain malfunctions were not due to incompetence, but rather to a lack of awareness among the professionals.
Incompetence is sin, & incompetent deception is unpardonable.
But then, that level of experience allows a certain slackness, which can sometimes result in bold and rare incompetence.
Today, the military government accused the commission of incompetence and said that "massive fraud organized by certain political parties" had been committed.
