Scots can hardly be prissy about the approach, given the national team has profited and been praised for similar against superior opposition.
Powell, as Hanif Kureishi rightly points out in a piece on the same day, instilled real fear in many immigrant communities, and played a major role in instigating the wave of popular white racism from which the National Front and other fascist organisations profited in the 1970s.
Despite past pledges by Niger's government to tackle people-smuggling, local officials in the Agadez region have profited from bribes being paid at checkpoints along the route, a Reuters investigation found.
Third, Germany's exporters have profited from the single currency and the stability it has brought to the eurozone more than anybody else.
Catch a film The now-ruined beachfront Palacio de la Chanca was built in the 15th century by the dukes of Medina-Sidonia, who profited hugely from the tuna fishing industry, the almadraba.
Although Howe has profited from a certain amount of financial stability no one could seriously argue Bournemouth have bought their way to success.
Brčko has profited by being unshackled from Bosnia.
It's a preserve of those who have profited the most from China's economic boom.
Karen González said Germany had profited from the crisis, abandoned the EU's core principles and had "preferred patching things up than undertaking a true cure at the heart of these problems which are now suffocating countries like Spain, which could backfire".
This meant Barclays avoided having to pay its customer $3.9m £2.3mm), and Plunkett's book profited by $1.75m.
GE profited handsomely from a bubble in America's energy markets, into which it sells power turbines.
