While many footballers favoured the feel of natural turf - which after all had sufficed for the game since its infancy - it was inconsistent, notoriously difficult to maintain and periodically led to "quagmire" pitches - the bete noire of managers on the losing side of an encounter.
Despite dire predictions that every military engagement would lead to a quagmire, America found that it could strike with virtual impunity almost anywhere on the globe, and military forays became more common.
I thought it would lead to a quagmire of epic proportions, and nothing getting done was better than damage being done.
But if the military objective is exclusively to create new balances on the ground, Decisive Storm's strategy will be a "staying strategy" because a military approach to the crisis will need time and could lead to a quagmire.
But I'm not at all convinced that that action would be successful (whatever "success" might mean) or that it won't lead to yet another quagmire, even if it's a metaphorical one.
How many troops could all this amount to?" Biden wanted to make sure that the administration's ambitious plans for nation building, and the military leadership's concern about the huge demands of the task, didn't lead to a classic quagmire, this official said.
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt refused to initiate full-blown regulation, saying it could lead to a "bureaucratic quagmire".
That arrogant assertion of ideology and preconceived ideas over practical experience has precisely led to the quagmire we find ourselves in today in Iraq and the Middle East.
Cheney replied that occupying and attempting to take over the country would have been a "bad idea" and would have led to a "quagmire", explaining that: Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone.
However, as currently proposed, the agreement's preference for penalties over incentives is liable to lead to acrimony, legal quagmires, and a reduction of the already low level of cooperation between governments and systemically important operators.
