Pardew has become peripheral because of his misadventure at Hull.
He talked of trusting in great players who had won things, but Thierry Henry, his captain, has become peripheral at Barcelona; William Gallas, his main defender, has scarcely played since the beginning of the year because of calf injury; Patrick Vieira is 33 and a shell of the midfield warrior he was.
That combination had felt thrilling but with the Serb diminished these days the former Arsenal player had become peripheral.
Pedro was excellent here but a return to Spain is far from outlandish, while Oscar and Nemanja Matic have become peripheral.
Management demands an element of versatility, and Delia coped with the Brown issue and will need to do the same with Guidetti and Forrest, two players that have become peripheral in recent months.
Klos, who is almost certain to end his 8½-year association with Rangers in the summer, has become a peripheral figure but will be called on by his manager, Walter Smith, following McGregor's sending-off in the last round, against Hapoel Tel-Aviv.
The actual being on TV part has become sort of peripheral to the experience of making it.
As literature's place in society has become more problematic and peripheral, and as humanistic education has grown into a virtual industry with a large group of professionals serving as one another's judges, criticism has evolved into a complex discipline, increasingly refined in its procedures but often lacking a sense of contact with the general social will.
The processor development has provided the processing heart for architecture, which combined with the right software and hardware peripherals, has become an embedded design.
She is a sad case, a fantasist and obsessive, just short of being a stalker, and Vincent has become wearily resigned to her peripheral presence in his life.
With the withdrawal of human neonatal kidney cellderived urokinase, alteplase has become an alternative agent in peripheral vascular applications.
