After a 15-year career that has spawned a record-breaking run of 14 No 1s and platinum success with 10 studio albums and two Greatest Hits collections, Irish boyband Westlife will be rising triumphantly from their stools one last time this Saturday, at the second of two sold-out farewell shows.
Disentangling the toxic web of claim and counter claim in cases such as this is never going to be easy but not for the first time Uefa seems to have fallen between several stools.
Don't expect a romantic evening as tables are squeezed together with everyone sitting on tiny stools.
There are half a dozen stools and the place is always packed to bursting, not surprising when a whopping pizza costs around €6 and a big slice only €1.50.
The Marwood in The Lanes, for example, is a wonderful hotchpotch of reclaimed bits and pieces with old cupboard doors as table tops and even Apple Mac hard drive towers as stools.
Worst of all, it could fall between two stools – being neither spare and rigorous enough to satisfy McQueen's fanbase nor, perhaps, soupy and sentimental enough to please the multiplex crowd.
In its wake came further recordings, world tours, solo albums and, for a while, this cluster of Cubans seemed inescapable – the distinctive strains of Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias and Candela winding their way around restaurant tables, bar stools and dinner parties the world over.
"It will also produce small firm stools.
They all have their armies of guards, peons, delivery boys, ear-dewaxers and men who sit on stools in lifts pressing the buttons.
But sushi, now deemed the height of sophistication, is becoming de rigueur for the capital's middle class.Of an evening, the young and well-heeled can be seen propped up on high stools tucking into pieces of nigiri or futomaki, accompanied by a glass of wine and even a cigar, an apparently mandatory male display of wealth.
Mr Hilfiger has fallen between two stools: having had to deny baseless rumours of racism, he is in danger of losing black customers without getting white ones.But put Mr Hilfiger's problems to one side.
