Unless of course there's a breakout moment, the one spectators and players alike are still waiting for.
"All athletes and spectators will be absolutely safe in Russia, and we won't allow any forms of discrimination".
Statements have already been taken from the two fans involved as well as other spectators.
But cricket pavilions vary as much as cricket does, each a monument to the players and spectators who made the matches they hosted, from the humblest, friendliest of clubs up to the venues that provide the canvases for the grandest heroes of the game.
The prices may seem high to ordinary spectators, but they are as published in Match's own brochure," Fernandes said.
"I might as well retire" was the early retort from Brownlee as he paused for a well-earned breather after high-fiving the waiting spectators who greeted his performance of 1hr 48min 50sec with the applause it deserved.
Soon it spread to other sports, to showing "pretty young things" among spectators, players' girlfriends, now even to music events.
Officially known as the "crisis work", the art piece has attracted a steady flow of spectators to the place where it has been erected, in the shadow of a bridge on the boulevard that connects Athens to the sea.
(Hopefully that's no omen for young Prince George's forthcoming visit: tens of thousands of expected spectators failed to turn up in the heat and dust, and the caterers had to bury truckloads of meat pies; a military flyover drowned out an unimpressed Dame Nellie Melba and one aircraft crashed before parliament, killing the pilot).
But this is not the kind of spectators the actors work for … And those who are brought to the theatre by force gnaw on sunflower seeds or talk on their mobile phones, disturbing the other theatregoers," she said.
Having ruled out boots on the ground and thereby guaranteed there will be no bodybags of US troops or pilots, Obama is asking a jury of safe spectators to press the yes or no buttons on missile strikes.
