On Saturday there were African drummers on the pitch at half time and the whole match presentation was themed around the club's new association with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the next day they employ a manager who has described himself as a fascist".
Sixty-four were for Wales, four with the Great Britain Olympics team and the other 932 for the club that know enough about Giggs by now to realise he will not want any fussy pre-match presentations before the home game against Norwich City.
In half of the non-match presentations in each recording session, a non-match face or pattern was chosen from the 32 faces (28 personally familiar and 4 personally unfamiliar faces) or 4 abstract patterns which could be used as a match in the I-DMS task; in the other half of the non-match presentations, it was chosen from 112 faces or 16 patterns which were not used as the match.
"I thought it was a reasonable effort," Ponting said in the post-match presentation.
However, that Valeri was unable to collect his winners' medal at the post-match presentation didn't quite feel right.
Charlton managed to make life difficult for the visitors until David Johnson whacked in their second goal in the 58th minute, after which home thoughts turned to the after-match presentation of the First Division trophy.
Oh, and the chairman Bruce Buck, who made a pre-match presentation on the pitch, was booed for his role – as the fans see it – in the refusal to extend Lampard's stay at the club beyond the summer.
Strauss initially described their batting as "civilised" at the official post-match presentation before refining his epithet to "classy" at his captain's press conference, and also praised the patience shown by the seamers in working their way through West Indies's second innings on a slow pitch.
There was irony at work when third umpire Marais Erasmus subsequently got the biggest cheer of all at the post-match presentation.
At the 2010 final, Esperance fans threw missiles onto the pitch during the game and then disrupted the post-match presentation ceremony after their team had lost.
The crowd subsequently jeered the umpires and Clarke during the post-match presentation before applauding Cook's triumphant team as they jogged around the floodlit outfield with flags draped around their shoulders.
