The Tour is so big, with so many media and public relations vehicles - not to mention the vast coaches in which the cyclists take refuge before the stage starts - that it barely fits in any but the largest towns.
Even Hodgson's vast experience coaching at club and international level in Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy and Norway - as well as Blackburn, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion in England - cannot act as a shield against the pressures of this tournament.
Van Gaal emerged as United's preferred choice shortly after David Moyes was sacked but the club asked Ryan Giggs to take temporary charge until the end of the season while they concluded a deal with the Dutchman, who has vast experience of coaching at the top level.
Anson Dorrance, who has coached the North Carolina women's soccer team to 20 national championships, said Tuesday that the vast majority of coaches and players "would never endorse that kind of behavior" demonstrated by Lambert.
The vast majority of coach passengers buy such fares, as opposed to the more expensive, fully refundable walk-up fares.
"Why do we allow the N.C.A.A, why do we allow universities, why do we allow sports to be tainted when the vast majority of coaches and athletic directors are striving to instill the right values?" said Duncan, who was a co-captain of his Harvard basketball team and played in an Australian professional league from 1987 until 1991.
He has managed in a World Cup and taken two clubs to the finals of European competitions – feats that are beyond the scope of the vast majority of coaches – but Roy Hodgson gives the impression that his success has been some sort of accident.
He holds a MSc in Human Resources Management and has vast experience in career coaching and employability.
The pantomime villain departed to a chorus of Scottish boos and was offered one of the vast thermal coats the coaching staff had been inviting departing players to step into all afternoon.
