To pretend that preparation of the ball does not go beyond natural, if concentrated, scuffing is unreasonable.
But picking at the ball, scuffing it on the ground or applying anything other than spit or sweat are not on.
The idea is that the subterranean grinding of stressed rock which precedes a quake stores charge (not unlike that built up by scuffing shoes across a carpet), some of which then flows to the surface, where it ionises molecules in the air.
It opened in London on September 11th.The sight of military officers from scores of nations scuffing their dress shoes while clambering on to tanks and peering through gun sights gives the show the air of a village fair, but this is no Glastonbury with guns.
If a bowler does not have the pace (speed) to deliver the reverse swing, another way to cause the ball to move in that fashion is to tamper with the surface of the ball (by scratching or scuffing it).
For some reason my new, relaxed, approach to swinging suffered an attack of uncontrollable tension and I was scuffing the ball left, right and rarely centre.
United had the first chance of the game after 25 minutes when Anderson chipped a through ball to another new arrival Nick Powell, who brought the pass down inside the box with his right foot before scuffing his shot wide with his left.
Menez picked up on a one-two, weaving through a static defence, but fluffed his lines, scuffing into Andreas Isaksson's path, while Giroud missed the target with a free header.
There was a time not so long ago when Tony Pulis would resort to scuffing up the centre of the Britannia Stadium pitch in preparation for Jose Mourinho, by getting his players to run on it in long studs on a Friday afternoon.
Hughes praised goalkeeper Jack Butland's save, though in truth the Belgian striker had exactly the same as Blind had, scuffing his goal attempt.
Vardy then drew things level with his fourth goal of the season, holding off Erik Pieters and scuffing a shot beyond Butland.
