Bassett and Ron Atkinson, albeit in contrasting circumstances, both tried and failed to recreate the good old days at a club whose honours list can still cause the Premiership's elite a few squirms of embarrassment.
For nearly a century, researchers have failed to recreate the process in the lab.
I tried as well, on Office Web Apps, Office 2010, and Office 2013 RT on a Surface 2. I also failed to recreate the above screenshot.
Even GTA IV, which rendered a New York full of shadows and grays, failed to recreate the part of Brooklyn I lived in, eschewing the hipster milieu of Brooklyn and Greenpoint and instead focusing on the drab industrial wasteland it had once been.
But Hoey failed to recreate his lie by replacing the sand on his ball, thus incurring a two-stroke penalty for breach of the same rule.
Chris Ashton sparkled before falling out of form and favour, Andy Farrell's progress was hampered by a succession of injuries, Lesley 'the Volcano' Vainikolo failed to recreate his league pyrotechnics.
Plainly, the two men have failed to recreate the successful partnership in Iraq of General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker.
For best new musical, "The Lion King," although hailed by the London critics, failed to recreate its Tony Award-winning sweep and lost to the Royal National Theater production of "Honk!
If the BoE took the polymer path it could incorporate new security features that its own PhD scientists have tried and failed to recreate in counterfeiting tests.
The former business secretary – and architect of New Labour – warned that the party risked a long period in opposition if it swung to the left and failed to recreate the wide-ranging coalition that took Tony Blair to power in 1997.
Van Outen joined the show in February but the pair failed to recreate the chemistry that characterised their time together on the Big Breakfast, and she leaves six months into a 12-month contract.
