Immediately Newcastle counter-attacked, briefly morphing into a very different, suddenly cohesive, side.
The Sevilla manager, Jorge Sampaoli has taken his side to third in La Liga with a young, dynamic and cohesive side capable of truly wonderful football.
The Blues, despite showing signs of rust, were the more cohesive side but the normally reliable Ben Blair missed three of his five kicks at goal, ensuring that Northampton had a toehold throughout, and the Saints scrambled well defensively after having their line punctured frequently by Leigh Halfpenny and James, who exploited some aimless kicking.
So they are a typical O'Neill team, with plenty of ability, but the different elements are not adding up into a cohesive side.
With the Sounders currently a well-balanced, cohesive, winning side that was to be expected, but what happens when changes have to be made?
Friday night's drubbing at the hands of an altogether sharper, tactically more cohesive VfL side was the first meaningful Bundesliga game Guardiola has lost in 52 outings.
The minnows were the more cohesive of the two sides but failed to create any clear-cut chances, even if Moumouni Dagano did head against the crossbar late on.
In 2013, trade unions have been emasculated but remain the only cohesive force on the side of "ordinary working people".
In any case, the team appears far more capable and cohesive than the distressed side that finished last at the 1998 World Cup in France.
This result may reflect increased experience in management of more contemporary patients and physicians' cohesive treatment strategies of side effects regardless of ethnicity.
