I was usually too quick and ducked out of the way, but sometimes he struck mum.
As pointed out by Chris Sutton among others, in the wake of the incident the debate should surely be around how standards of refereeing can be improved – it was the referee, Steven McLean, who ducked the key decision, even if Muir was no help – and the potential for introducing technology that could mitigate errors.
But we think the politicians and broadcasters have ducked and dived long enough and just need to get on with it now and ensure the public have the opportunity, however flawed the format, to scrutinise their politicians".
Related: How David Cameron ducked questions about former HSBC boss at PMQs Miliband has clearly made the political judgement that mounting popular anger over individual and corporate tax avoidance is so intense that he can credibly present Labour as the crusader against the immorality of some of the super-rich.
Sebelius also ducked responsibility for changes that triggered the website meltdown, blaming government administrator Marilyn Tavenner, who testified to another House committee on Tuesday, for a last-minute decision to force users of the website to register in advance.
Sebelius also ducked a series of fierce attacks over whether Obama had lied by claiming that people would be able to keep their existing plans if they wanted to, saying the policy to cut off insurance taken out after the law was signed had always been an exception.
So it was left to the some schoolchildren to ask the programme's only challenging questions of Jenkins (he ducked them), leaving the banker to depart from the studio no doubt congratulating himself and his PR handlers on a sermon skilfully delivered.
Like Anderson, Pietersen ducked and writhed like a man being jiggled all over with a high precision cattle prod, a state of indecision that is a response to many things, above all the basic trauma of Australia's relentless competitive intensity in this series.
During this year's Paris-Roubaix, a raft of riders ducked under the barriers as they closed at a level crossing.
And as some of our writers will be taking their leave for the season at this point in proceedings, this seems as good a time as any to thank them all for their sterling work this season - not least regular Chivas correspondent Alicia Ratterree, whose team helpfully ducked out of the running while she was dealing with the sleepless nights of her new baby.
On the day of the January attack, he ducked while the others stayed standing, a bullet shattered his shoulder-blade – likened by doctors to "a plate smashed against the ground" – and he was left haunted by watching his friends being gunned down.
