When the public services duly failed to improve, Mr Blair's inadequate answer was to give them targets, loads of money and new ministers.
Napoli spent the entire final day of the window haggling with Roberto Soriano over his image rights, and duly failed to submit the paperwork required to complete his transfer from Sampdoria on time.
Many duly failed to make the case for the operation to public opinion in national security terms, so that once the security situation in Afghanistan got worse in 2006 they found it politically impossible to answer American calls for more troops.
But Irish failed to press on and duly paid the price when De Luca's deft offload put in McInally and moved Edinburgh within striking distance.
Having pledged to resign if he failed to get elected to parliament, he duly failed, resigned, then changed his mind.
He sent Colby several stories, which were duly printed, but subsequent correspondence with Colby failed to elicit payment, and eventually Colby stopped responding to his letters.
Upon arrival at his hotel, however, the winger failed to wake the night porter to let him in, so Beagrie duly commandeered the bemused Spaniard's bike, rode up the hotel steps and crashed straight through a plate glass window.
Luton made it two after Bentley and Cian Bolger failed to clear, leaving Andy Drury to pounce on the loose ball and Cullen duly slotted in.
He then failed to convert a straightforward smash to give Djokovic a 40-15 leandand he duly completed the break at the second time of asking with a sliced forehand winner.
In the tenth game, Lasker as White played a position with an isolated queen pawn but failed to create the necessary activity and Capablanca reached a superior ending, which he duly won.
