"I would refuse to give up the ball if you asked me," Martínez said afterward, standing graciously to face the news media in a hushed Boston clubhouse.
"From the very first press releases carrying the news of his death it was clear that the papers were going to have a field day with the kind of depressingly familiar distortions of his thought that he had to face so often - and faced so graciously - when he was alive". The charge sheet is impressive.
Within minutes of the final whistle, manager Jose Mourinho faced the inquisitive gaze of Spanish television to graciously accept that his team had been second best and that there were no complaints about the result.
As forgers became increasingly adept at their trade, however, and the sixties gave way to the seventies and decimalisation (1971), so the Queen graciously shared the face of banknotes with increasingly sophisticated illustrations.
He's currently working on a book about Jackie O., his greatest obsession, but he took a break to talk to us about his long years of shoving cameras in famous faces and graciously offer a selection of unpublished photos from his archives. .
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With a white mask shielding the lower half of his face, the doctor graciously came forward and nodded with dignified remove.
They were youthful eyes, eyes that had refused to age as the face around them wisened graciously over centuries.
And, seconds later, the make-up and hairstyling Oscar is handed, graciously, to Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, who painted the faces and whipped up the hair on Les Miserables.
He graciously made no comment about my contorted, purple face.
