He walked through the streets of Brixton, a racially mixed section of London, and a crowd of close to 5,000 crushed forward to touch him.
After all, he is the guy who was fined $20,000 for a profane postgame rant, while Nashville defenseman Shea Weber got the equivalent of a parking ticket ($2,500) for trying to crush Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg's head like a watermelon Wednesday night.
Rather than press forward to crush the shattered and outnumbered rebel army, McClellan hesitated and withdrew.
Blake had saved three break points in the game and looked prepared to save another as he moved forward to crush a short forehand down the line with Safin at the net.
He thwarted the movement in support of a reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in 2009, and when hundreds of thousands of Iranians rose up around the country marching in the streets, some overtly denouncing him, he stepped forward to crush the protests.
That was a major reason the Knicks made 10 of 14 3-pointers, and why Larry Johnson, in particular, was able to crush Dale Davis in the power forward matchup.
Gulbis pushed forward, preparing to crush the weak shot, but before he could move too far too fast, the ball clipped the top of the net and then landed on Gulbis's side of the clay and bounced twice for a winner.
The British move quickly to crush them but do not push far forward into the city.
A real win would have been to crush a defiant Silvio Berlusoni in parliament and go forward with a new, more cohesive majority.
I want to crush furniture.
