Cautious, crabby and a poor spectacle, it typified the way much of the tournament had gone.
But other countries are asking these crabby questions too.Do the newly elected governments of the centre-right have the answers?
There may not be much point in trying to draw a direct line between the personal qualities of this opinionated, crabby and often contrary workaholic and the marvel of his music.
And though the Ukrainians may feel that their "orange revolution" deserves to be rewarded, the reality is that the EU is doing all it can to discourage talk of Ukraine's membership.The newly crabby and negative attitude in western Europe is intimately connected to the defeat of the EU constitution in the referendums in France and the Netherlands.
Some of his crabby belligerence may have been prompted by the ill-health and awful accidents that dogged his wife and children.Mr Sturrock has an eye for the sort of detail that Dahl would have enjoyed: the great aunts sitting drunk on the veranda, "methodically picking maggots out of raspberries with a pin" could squat happily alongside Aunts Sponge and Spiker in "James and the Giant Peach".
IT WAS a crabby week in Europe, culminating in a half-agreement in Amsterdam which, far from drawing a nice clear map of the European Union's future, left a vista of blank spaces on a dog-eared document and scowls on the faces of many of the continent's leaders (see article).
Their recent Amsterdam summit found them in crabby mood, unwilling to make the changes necessary to cope with a Union of 20 or 25 members.
"He did receive a lot of letters from people asking for advice, and as he got older his replies were slightly more crabby.
Princess Profanity puts Pandora pal back in his box Princess Beatrice is in a crabby mood.
By pushing, pulling, stretching and kneading, he loosens my crabby shoulders, ankles, neck and spine.
The famously crabby 'Indiana Jones' star has a new tear-jerker movie out, but is refreshingly honest about his motivations.
