Anglin admits a few noses were out of joint, but Miliband won most people round over time.
He may have put a few noses out of joint along the way, but to Faldo the ends justified the means.
But the prize of transforming today's underperforming health systems into the sort that will produce high-quality yet affordable health care is worth putting quite a few noses out of joint.
There has always been a quiet confidence in the Castleford camp this season that they could bloody a few noses and now there is a determination that the Challenge Cup disappointment will not knock them out of their stride.
"I don't see South Africa as a team who can win it but the Ivory Coast have some terrific players and I actually think Sven [-Goran Eriksson] might just rub a few noses in it.
It has been doing things its way for 150 years and the arrival of a cadre of quoted-company executives was bound to put a few noses out of joint.
Diamond lights up super Sale Even though they lost to Leicester in a thrilling encounter at Welford Road, I must award full marks to Steve Diamond and his Sale side for putting a few noses out of joint – not only last weekend, but throughout the season to date.
With neither relegation nor a Champions League place looking realistic, a concerted tilt at the FA Cup might hold particular appeal and it would certainly put a few noses out of joint if, given their fortunes so far, Chelsea emerged from this season with one more trophy than many of their rivals.
Most aspirant billionaires don't mind putting a few noses out of joint – by which I mean they're sociopathically obsessed with rhinal violation – so, on the way down, the only real difficulty is coping with the change in the nature of the hatred: from envy to contempt, from an abhorrence tinged with grudging respect to one tempered by disdainful pity.
Rather than hope for miracles, England can only try to bloody a few noses as they slide down the ropes.
However, despite wrinkling a few noses nobody was really put out at the fishy smell because, as the local saying had it, "What you can smell is money".
