Wayne Rooney spoke of the ineffable boredom of life in an isolated five-star prison, John Terry made not the least miscalculation of his life when he elected himself as the spokesman for a dressing room he could hardly have split more profoundly had he driven a stake into the middle of the floor.
Garde had barely taken his seat when Danny Rose's pass – hardly defence-splitting – down the left found Mousa Dembélé.
While that is hardly an even split, it is considerably more than the minority party gets this year.
The White House is offering an 83%-17 83%-17 (hardly a huge distance) and a promise that none of the revenue increase will come from higher marginal rates, only from eliminating loopholes.
He talks about Weisz in the present tense, hardly suggesting any split is actual or imminent: of their living arrangements, he says, "We have a home in Camden," and when I ask whether the couple will be giving their son a Jewish upbringing, again it's in the present.
On Europe, two-thirds of respondents said that "if other European countries establish a single currency" Britain should join it which hardly suggests Eurosceptic splits are in the making.
The Mets are the narrowest of favourites, but there's hardly a hair to split the two teams.
It was hardly a typical practice: split into two parts at two different times of the day in order to avoid conflicting with the men's downhill, which shared the same finish area.
The Maloof-Nassif split is hardly the first "Real Housewives" divorce.
The New Democrats, the centrists of the party to which Mr Gore belongs, loved it.The vice-president's split personality is hardly unique.
