Having conceded five times in their madcap semi-final second leg tie against Sheffield United, the Robins were far too open again at the back, while going forward they rarely looked liked the fluid, possession-based team that had secured fourth place in League One against all expectations.
Where do I party For drinks in the Jewellery Quarter, the Rose Villa Tavern is a creative take on the classic pub, with Victorian stained-glass windows and green tiling offset by madcap touches such as fairy-lit tree branches, antler chandeliers and a red phone box.
"It was unbelievable, and incredible things happened which we will be unable to explain for the rest of our lives," said Manchester City's Fernandinho, a member of the two-man midfield that had been so horribly outnumbered and overrun during that madcap first period.
Fans of Ian Fleming and PG Wodehouse were treated to new books: William Boyd's Solo (Jonathan Cape) took Bond on an African adventure, while Sebastian Faulks' Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (Hutchinson) set Bertie Wooster off on a typically madcap caper replete with am dram and aunts.
"It instantly struck me what an incredibly well-plotted work it is: scary, but with that madcap element that reminded me – and I mean this as the highest possible compliment – of an episode of Scooby-Doo!" As well as the visible locomotive-orchestra, there are other aspects of Hunter's production that would probably also have perturbed Ridley.
The madcap gaiety of Jim Sharman's production seemed at odds with the Court's sober, puritanical image.
Her Republican opponent in November's Senate race, Matt Fong, is a cat's-paw for Newt Gingrich and Oliver North, an enemy of abortion rights, a friend of handguns and a madcap supporter of the flat tax, she argues, to chants of "Fong is wrong".
While some may find "Spamalot" trying a little too insistently to be madcap, others will be charmed by "The Song That Goes Like This," the musical's irreverent take on the soaring Broadway ballad.
There is a madcap drive from the airstrip to the city: those who reach the market first receive the best price.Mogadishu's marketplaces, Bakara and Hamarweyne, bustle with enterprise.
Last July, The Economist speculated that Southwest's secret is that its "staff... affect a madcap jollity reminiscent of British holiday camps in the 1970s".That's part of the story.
Southwest's staff, in contrast, affect a madcap jollity reminiscent of British holiday camps in the 1970s.
