News reports on these controversies ran 19 to 1 negative over positive.
Yet, while a sunkissed calm reigned across the 900 acres of fields on Thursday, it would not have been Glastonbury without some early controversy running alongside.
I've always been alive to the virtues of this form of rugby – I'm a good northern lad, after all – and here was a contest with excitement, skill and controversy running right the way through it; the perfect finale for two superheroes of Super League.
"We've had this big controversy running for years now about why the federal government needs to vacuum up everybody's phone calls," he said.
The controversy ran for weeks – Bell estimated that the furore earned the equivalent of £5m in free publicity.
GRUESOME MUSEUM SHOW STIRS CONTROVERSY," ran the headline of an article in the New York Daily News that included an inflammatory description of "a painting of the Virgin Mary splattered with elephant dung".
For years Democrats have run from controversy, run from conflict, and run from aggression.
The controversy runs hot: while interviewing the mayor on the radio Thursday, Hot97 host Peter Rosenberg told de Blasio to retaliate against Neeson and "kick his ass" because he "cannot fight like he does in those movies".
Raiders, 28-23 CLEVELAND (2-5) AT Pittsburgh (3-3) Pittsburgh was a team buried with a quarterback controversy, a running game that was limping, young receivers who looked spooked and, over all, a club that lacked confidence.
