"It was a freak 25 minutes," said Strachan.
Like a freak storm, the eurozone crisis has swept over this land, leaving despair and destruction in its wake: almost no household has not felt the effects of wage and pension cuts (slashed by an average 40%), soaring taxes and unemployment that at 26.7% is the highest in the EU and unprecedented in Greece's post-war history.
Her brand of high-impact aerobics, mixed with her extraordinary career reinventions – from Barbarella film star, to political campaigner, to exercise supremo – made Jane more than just a fitness freak; for the first time ever, exercise was glamorous.
"Horror is designed to freak out its audience, and because of our biological construction, there's only a limited number of ways of effectively freaking out people.
Set at Wentworth Detention Centre, it found the all-female inmates – led by "Queen" Bea – engaged in a struggle for supremacy with villainous guards including Vera "Vinegar Tits" Bennett and Joan "The Freak" Ferguson.
"My wife and children know so much about air pressure now; on a freak day, say 980 millibars maybe, I'd have got close to Chris Boardman's record".
Little by little, my son is forcibly kicking the control freak out of me.
It can make your heart feel as if it is racing, and you may succumb to "negative self-talk", convincing yourself you are going to fail, vomit or freak out.
The result in Norwich North was not a freak at all, especially for Labour.
Next we come to the award for best unspun moment, of increasing importance in these days of control freak spin doctors and tightly drilled politicians.
Gordon Strachan insists Scotland will not put on another "freak" show on Tuesday night when they take on Serbia in their 2014 World Cup qualifier in Novi Sad.
