Jumping at the free publicity, Sanyo counterattacked with its own news conference, featuring three executives holding up white shirts for television cameras.
Mostly, though, the debate was just a series of attacks and counterattacks free of fact-checking or much in the way of flow.
Should Jamie Vardy not have replaced Raheem Sterling when Russia, mustering themselves for a late push for parity after Eric Dier's free-kick, appeared vulnerable to the counterattack?
Have a plan of counterattack or escape ready for use the moment you are free.
It was one of those increasingly common counterattack-disrupting tugs at a player who is breaking free, but McManaman was a long way from goal and no real threat was apparent.
While those patents might have slowed Adidas' and Nike's counterattack, it's unlikely these street fighters are going to give the Italian upstart a free run.
The Employee Free Choice Act is the Democratic bill that unions want the new majority to push through.The conservative counterattack, announced yesterday, will pre-empt card check in five states.
The networks could play on that sentiment to launch a legal counterattack, waging war in court and lobbying in Washington, D.C. to push for measures to protect "free" television.
But then came Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's 21st league goal of the season, a tap-in, scored in a thrilling, three-point counterattack that actually wasn't a counterattack at all but a move that stemmed from a free-kick deep in the Dortmund half, and with it came unprecedented controversy.
If, like the author of Free Ride, Robert Levine, you believe that digital parasites are destroying the culture business, then the time has come for a major counterattack against both piracy and the free culture movement.
