With John Terry suspended, Kurt Zouma will join Gary Cahill in the heart of the home defence, while José Mourinho may decide Branislav Ivanovic's dismal form could make him a liability against such nimble, fleet-of-foot attackers.
Though there's some ridiculous mumbo jumbo about the secret society at the heart of the novel, though some of the complicated plot points end up not making a whole lot of sense, the book is jet-fueled by its author's unerring sense of character and his nimble, fleet-footed prose.
With its nimbler fleet, Honda has benefited directly from the shift to more fuel-efficient vehicles.
As nimble and fleet as doodles on dinner napkins, these pictures often took eatables as their subject, and were done in the mid-1960s, when Zhang's personal cook had opened a restaurant, Szechuan Taste, in New York's Chinatown.
Ram-equipped triremes were extraordinarily nimble, and fleets of these vessels employed a variety of formations from which they could maneuver to ram and disable other ships.
The access to computer networks for employees, suppliers or contractors that can make a company more nimble and fleet-footed also makes a company far more vulnerable to theft, sabotage and information-warfare attacks.
Yet by shaving inches and pounds from the typical midsize crossover — the Acura MDX weighs 360 pounds more and the 6-cylinder BMW X5 is 800 pounds heavier — this Volvo feels surprisingly fleet and nimble.
Gates has all but ended the army's $200bn attempt to build a fleet of nimble, electric-powered vehicles over concerns that the vehicle's design put it at greater risk from roadside bombs, the militants' weapon of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the music is as nimble as ever, and as fleet, with chilling drums, winding samples, a robust sense of history and a keen urge to destroy and update it.
By turns crisp, jaunty, nimble and witty, Abse's fleet-footed verse draws on every dimension of a rich joint life: movies, music, babies, medicine, cities, suburbs, country, families, travels, quarrels, and passages of sweet togetherness.
