Or on a chairman who insisted he had learned from past mistakes but saw his team ignominiously relegated from the top flight for the second successive time?
It was a case of different team, same old story for Alastair Cook, although Essex folded more ignominiously in their first innings of the County Championship season than even England managed in the winter.
He was ignominiously defeated in the May elections for the House of Commons.
Moeen struggled with his off spin in the Caribbean, with a single game of red-ball cricket behind him since being sidelined with injury after England's ignominiously early exit from the World Cup.
Alastair Cook, the Test captain, will hope they can furnish him with the strongest possible touring party as some form of compensation for ignominiously hooking him from the stage before the World Cup.
Pearce went on to list the injuries depriving him of Michael Mancienne, Matty Fryatt, Dexter Blackstock and Andy Reid, though he was still able to make three changes to the side ignominiously and deservedly beaten by Rochdale in the FA Cup, bringing in Jamaal Lascelles, the new loan signing from Chelsea, Todd Kane, and the youngster Ben Osborn.
IN 1995 Alfa Romeo ignominiously pulled out of America, having managed to sell only 400 cars there that year.
And Mr Pfeiffer is gone, ignominiously fired by the board last year and eventually replaced by a little-known Compaq executive, Michael Capellas, after months of looking for a high-flying outsider.From afar, the cause and effect seem clear: Compaq bought Digital and choked on it, losing its way.
On January 31st the Honours Forfeiture Committee ruled that Sir Fred, as he has been since 2004, should be stripped of his knighthood after his tenure as chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) ended ignominiously with a huge bail-out.
Moreover, Marian Krzaklewski, who heads the Solidarity movement at the heart of the current government of the right, failed ignominiously even to come second: his 16% put him in third place, behind a plague-on-both-houses independent, Andrzej Olechowski, the only man (there were no women) among the dozen runners to confess openly that he had spied for the secret service in communist times.
After they have fired their engines for a few minutes they are left to fall back to Earth, usually splashing ignominiously into the ocean.Rocket scientists have therefore long dreamed of making something able to fly more than once.
