Arab countries don't see Iran's efforts to expand its regional influence as a low-cost operation, though it could perhaps be characterised as low-tech.
But it could perhaps have been otherwise.
It could perhaps be used to rein in environmental regulations.
Ageing cannot be reversed but it could, perhaps, be delayed.
Yet it could, perhaps should, have been so different.
It could perhaps have been "merely a joke in poor taste" said a spokeswoman.
It could perhaps make the criterion of social justice more evident.
It could perhaps have added even more: expectations for future inflation have sunk to the lowest level in three years.
It could, perhaps, be read as an instruction to the visitor: look first but then feel and imagine.
It could – perhaps at a stretch – even be argued that this, too, is a footballing point: why should the French team confine itself to one type of football?
It could, perhaps should, have been him who, like Rogers, batted through the day as had Mark Taylor and Geoff Marsh at Trent Bridge in 1989.
