Political contests are, almost invariably, to be preferred to political coronations.
Quite apart from most players detesting such pitches, a handful of key England performers, including Steph Houghton, the influential captain, are still working their way back to match fitness following lengthy lay-offs and would have much preferred the rather more forgiving feel of grass beneath their feet.
According to Jane's memoir, Thorne wanted Penthouse – but Hawking preferred Private Eye.
"Wonderbra" Beattie liked tits'n'bums; Abbott preferred Walter Bagehot.
Christina Patterson in the Sunday Times described the book as full of "filthy sex", while Amanda Craig in the Spectator preferred the term "graphic".
They would have preferred to donate the embryos to science, but at the time, embryonic stem cell research was banned, so that choice was off the table.
But Beckett pointed to a survey suggesting people preferred to have a stable majority government led by one party.
I didn't watch the show of my own volition too much after immigrating to the US as a child (I was a nerd who preferred to read books), but it was often on at home following the family meal on Saturday evenings; if we had friends and family over at our apartment on Saturday night, spending time with them meant watching the show.
The excitement that interviewers seek in vain when speaking to Henman is provided on the court, where the British number one plays a brand of attacking, serve-and-volley tennis that is rapidly being replaced by the baseline belting preferred by most of the new generation of players.
Jaruzelski preferred to emphasise his reformist credentials, claiming he had been the first Warsaw Pact leader to recognise the significance of Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas.
Many legislators preferred to reintroduce the law rather than risk a constitutional crisis should the prime minister be convicted during Italy's six-month EU presidency.
