Clegg's warm-up act was Lib Dem president Sal Brinton, who reinforced the sense that this election is becoming a comically unedifying turf war over meaningless bits of vocabulary.
The Power suffered a nervous moment when Schulz banged his head on the turf just a week after copping a heavy knock to the face.
Instead of focusing on high standards, the delivery of a broad-based curriculum and proper governance arrangements in schools he has sought to distract attention from this by launching a self-indulgent turf war with Theresa May.
When you compare the gentle coverage the royals receive in the US media with what they get on their home turf, you wonder why they don't quietly slip away and settle in, say, Orlando, Florida.
Blatter is said, rather, to have been wounded by the worldwide media ridicule and criticism, including in his comfortable Zurich home turf, by the heated contempt from European football associations and the rumblings of sponsors concerned, as ever, with the impact on their own brands.
On Wood's home turf, as elsewhere in Wales, what's most striking is Labour's quiet slide.
While they rejoiced, their opponents dragged themselves from the turf in utter disbelief, the west London divide gaping wider than ever.
And as the last artificial turf pellet is combed out of DeAndre Yedlin's hair there, that will be that for the regular season, and we can all draw breath before the playoffs.
The Galaxy have a hole to fill and on the turf at Seattle, a pesky Seattle midfield will have something to say about the outcome.
The Buddies had not tasted success on home turf since defeating Ross County by the same scoreline last May at the tailend of last season.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.09am GMT10 09 20th over: England 130-9 (Broad 18) Broad clobbers the ball high down the ground, just over the fielder, and it lands and plugs in the turf.
