That's a contest of mutual loathing.
The events of 1966 support that conclusion: that was a contest where isolated moments of brilliance did indeed make the difference, but they were celebrated as the collective property of the team and the nation, not as immediate benchmarks against which individual players could be subsequently measured and pilloried.
The days of that being a contest between What's His Name and Who Cares would seem to be over.
The heart of Warren's appeal is her insistence that politics is a contest of competing values.
The conventional wisdom holds that while national polls like this one capture important trends, they are mostly meaningless in terms of the primary process, since that is a series of state contests, each affected by local events and organizing.
Writing in The Times, Torres said he had hoped to induce people "to look at it from a more humane point of view, making them understand that, ultimately, boxing is a contest of will and character where triumphs are decided by the power of the mind, not of the flesh".
Now the case is before the United States Supreme Court, a legal contest that is a test of whether former officials of foreign governments who are accused of committing war crimes before they moved to the United States have immunity from civil lawsuits.
And we think that is the issue that is before the court now, which is a contest of that election where we have identified separately, five groups of ballots that we believe either should have been received and were not, or in one case were received and should not have been, under specific Florida state law.
Gladstone, speaking in Manchester in April of 1862, declared that there was "no doubt if we could say that this was a contest of slavery and freedom, there is not a man within the length and breadth of this room — there is, perhaps, hardly a man in all England — who would for a moment hesitate upon the side he should take".
Whilst many will argue with many aspects of the Thatcher legacy - and some will, no doubt, protest about it today - that is an analysis which few will contest - though, of course, any consensus can be broken and re-made just as privatisation did to the previously widespread belief in the value of nationalisation.
