From liquidation to boardroom coups, the Rangers captain, Lee Wallace, has seen it all when it comes to off-field strife during his Ibrox career.
Portsmouth showed last season what off-field strife can do to a club and the fear is that the Sky Blues are destined to follow the same path.
Indeed, some would argue he has been a little bit dull, that a bit of off-field strife or outspokenness would have made him a more engaging figure.
MacArthur was a firm supporter of athletics at the academy, as he famously said "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory".
Recognizing the transferability of small-squad sports experiences to military units, the website on West Point's Physical Program includes this quote from General Douglas MacArthur: "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds, that upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory".
Unknown assailants murdered Natalya Estemirova, the human rights activist, in 2009, dumping her body in a field in Ingushetia, another strife-torn republic in Russia's Caucasus.
The murder of two students in Colombia last week near a manatee study site possibly by paramilitary gangsters sent a chill through the local research community, highlighting dangers to field workers in the strife-torn country.
■ Based on the research of others, the authors say players from countries with civil strife are more likely to have discipline problems on the field, receiving an inordinate number of yellow and red cards.
Here in the heart of tranquil, suburban Connecticut, there is loud and angry strife over a plan to renovate the field behind an elementary school so it can be used by adult softball leagues.
The Godfather of Soul spent the first part of 2005 recovering from prostate surgery and fielding lingering questions about his much publicized 2004 marital strife and domestic abuse problems.
Exxon's oil and natural gas production tumbled in the second quarter because of Venezuela's expropriation of Exxon's assets last year, labor and political strife in Nigeria and declining production in many fields around the world.
