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Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.
The biggest story to emerge about X Factor in 2011 seems to be the story of X Factor itself, and its apparently irreversible slide into oblivion.
A "really long tube slide" was the element over which she refused to budge.
They probably sneered even harder when I whooped down the water slide from the top deck, somersaulting into the pea-soup-coloured water.
It has been a slow slide and there's no sign of it reversing," she said.
The former Brighton, Port Vale and Leicester manager joined the club in December but was unable to prevent the Blades' slide into the relegation zone and their return to the third tier for the first time since 1988-89.
On Wood's home turf, as elsewhere in Wales, what's most striking is Labour's quiet slide.
The larger, more traditional high-ceilinged "white cube" space in the rear has accommodated a ghostly slide projector installation from English artist Claire Harvey's "life in black and white" miniature world, plus more conventional sculpture and painting exhibitions from established artists such as Folkert de Jong and Sven Kroner.
Sunderland slipped into the Third Division for the first time in their history as a tearful Stokoe left the club after ultimately failing to arrest the slide started by the McMenemy regime.
He said: "While the threat from Russia, together with the risk it brings of a miscalculation resulting in a slide into strategic conflict, however unlikely we see that as being right now, represents an obvious existential threat to our whole being, we of course face threats from Isis and other instabilities to our way of life and the security of our loved ones".
