Here the serve, the attack, was mechanised, but for long periods neither man was capable of defending himself against it.
"I think it's great for the event," said Sir Peter Blake, the man in charge of defending the cup and keeping it within the confines of its current home at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
The races took place in Pontevedra on the Spanish west coast, the home town of defending men's world champion Javier Gomez.
On the defensive earlier on, Mr. Kirrane's Andrey woundingly suggests a man no longer capable of defending his harridan of a wife, Natasha (a tattooed Emily Barclay), and who is seen wheeling their baby disconsolately to and fro like an overgrown child himself.
GB cycling boss Dave Brailsford has played down Britain's chances of defending the men's world road race title on Sunday.
His job is to go through the motions of defending a man nearly everyone wants sent to the electric chair.
A crowd of 41,486 watched Mourinho's men go nine points clear of defending champions Manchester City, who host rivals Manchester United on Sunday.
The murder of Attfield, a father of four who had suffered brain damage in a car crash four years earlier, was a "brutal, relentless and cowardly attack on a man lying on the ground incapable of defending himself".
The town of Verdun and its surrounding complex of forts was chosen, because it was a menace to the main German lines of communications, because it was within a French salient and thus cramped the defenders, and because of the certainty that the French would sacrifice any number of men to defend Verdun for reasons of patriotism associated with the town itself.
"We had to do a lot of defending with 14 men as well.
