The view from Washington, a town with a fetish for merit, may be that Goldstone was a "useful idiot," but that might understate just how useful he was.
Don't understate how time-consuming this will be.
It is easy to understate how much practice and basic footballing intelligence goes into learning these skills; and also to wonder how much more Welbeck might have benefited from spending all that time and effort on the pitch and in training just focusing on how to be a better centre-forward.
Consider that last season: All those numbers may actually understate how poor the defense was.
All those numbers may actually understate how poor the defense was.
It is difficult to understate how out of their depth Gibraltar were.
It seems priggish to understate how spectacularly "The Shield" delivered that comeuppance.
A slight complication was that in bad times the unemployment rate tended to understate how bad things were.
What Kelly said: "I can't understate how hard it has been.
It's hard to understate how radical the change this technology could bring to financial services actually could be.
