"There's the version on the cocktail circuit of this crusading guy swooping down from above, and he's going to save these poor public school children and keep fighting that fight, Sir Knight Joel Klein," he said.
In fact, for centuries scholars and directors have been fighting over Sir John Falstaff.
Interestingly, Romola Garai is able to do much more with Kate, fighting off Sir Mulberry's lascivious advances and then angrily denouncing her uncle to his face for encouraging them.
Jones, who is also the captain of Wales, played on Saturday evening as though he were fighting for survival in Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice boardroom.
It was street fighting scrapping of which Sir Alex Ferguson, looking down from his perch in the Royal Box alongside Thierry Henry, would have heartily approved.
After fighting a duel with Sir Thomas Canterbury at the successful defense of the city of Rennes against an English siege in 1356 57, du Guesclin was awarded a pension by the Dauphin (the future king Charles V) in December 1357.
Digger wrote a while back that Fulham were fighting the Premier League chairman, Sir Dave Richards, through the courts for allegedly having "facilitated" the transfer of Peter Crouch to Tottenham Hotspur instead of his moving to Craven Cottage.
For Radical Housing Network, a London-based association of groups fighting for housing justice, Sir Martin has a "track record of facilitating the social cleansing of London".
Its Welsh boss, Sir Howard Stringer, is fighting to overcome internal resistance as he tries to restructure the firm.
