The ECB cannot intervene, given the extraordinary backing they gave him, but his confidence in his own ability to do the job is not obvious.
"I know this extraordinary backing will mean so much to all the UK's 49,000 children with palliative care needs and their families and will really help raise awareness of what these families need, today and in the future.
In New York, he has proved the perfect celebrity storm, combining an extraordinary back story, endearing humility, infectious excitement and natural extroversion.
He also noted that the company had grown faster than the overall personal computer market for 11 of the past 12 quarters, and he pointed in particular to an extraordinary back-to-school market.
But almost as remarkable as the mystery surrounding Mr. Li's death was the extraordinary back door through which the news emerged: an anonymous posting in a chat room on a popular Chinese Web site.
The extraordinary back and forth added a new chapter to an internal administration dispute over whether to abandon conspiracy and other idiosyncratic American-style charges as offenses that may be brought before a military commission even though international law does not recognize them as war crimes.
The extraordinary back-to-back admonishments, coming little more than three weeks before Election Day, provoked intense partisan recriminations on Capitol Hill, where Democrats regard Mr. DeLay as the symbol of the Republicans' bare-knuckles leadership style and Republicans believe Democrats are gunning for their leader.
The final, a 2-0 win over Van Gaal's Bayern Munich, was straightforward enough, but the symbolism of Mourinho overcoming his former boss was overshadowed by the far greater resonance of the semi-final in April 2010, and Inter's extraordinary backs-to-the-wall triumph over Guardiola's Barcelona, the defending champions.
But now, the sharp-suited recessive gene of British cinema (who feels that film has missed its calling as a visual language and longs to throw out narrative altogether) is the recipient of the "outstanding contribution to British cinema" Bafta, an honorary award for his extraordinary back catalogue.
But notwithstanding the Nation's proud self-description as "the most credible of the English newspapers in Pakistan", a charge this incendiary, without some extraordinary evidence backing it up, should have seemed like a bridge too far even for a writer given to hyperbole.And indeed, Mr Hersh soon disavowed any such claim, calling the remarks attributed to him "complete madness".
"Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have provided extraordinary support, stretching back nearly 25 years, to the international programmes of the Rainforest Foundation.
