One man who was definitely not happy, though, was Dean Richards, once the rock on which Leicester was built, now starting to make something of his Newcastle side.
This, the most adventurous and biggest roof of its kind for decades after it was built, now painted a fetching sky blue and flooded with daylight?
The area around Gamboa, cleared when the Panama Canal was built, now looks to the untrained eye like the wildest of jungles.
The Town of Mount Pleasant, for instance, where none of the 321 units the town was allocated in 1993 was built, now has a goal of 756 units by 2015.
Up in Seattle, meanwhile, Amazon's chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, says that after years of failed experimentation, third-party vendors — the foundation on which eBay was built — now account for about 29percentt of sales on Amazon.
The tufa platform on which it was built, now exposed behind and beneath the Palazzo dei Conservatori, measured 203 by 174 feet (62 by 53 metres), probably with three rows of six columns across each facade and six columns and a pilaster on either flank.
