"And Kolo Toure has overstretched his groin, so we need to assess that, which doesn't look so good to be honest".
But experts at home say that the country has overstretched itself with deployments abroad, including roughly 1,600 troops in Afghanistan, up from around 1,200 in September, and five years of playing a supporting role in Iraq, which it recently completed.
Unlike his former mentor Gordon Ramsay, no one seems to be levelling the accusation at Atherton that he has overstretched.
As a columnist in The Sunday Telegraph, Jeff Randall, saw matters: "Recent helter-skelter expansion has overstretched resources, financial and human.
And it states that, under Labour, the government has overstretched the armed forces, leaving them without sufficient reserves.
A new chief executive and some dramatic curtailing of projects with which the company had overstretched itself, along with some clever choices in licensing new ranges, brought Lego back from the brink, he added.
LAWRENCE WRIGHT: I think we've overstretched our ambitions in Afghanistan.
Some of its rich-country backers have overstretched budgets of their own, to put it mildly.
In the end, the City viewed ICI as a conglomerate that had overstretched itself and was ripe for unbundling.
"Arab spring became Arab winter" March 18 , 2014In the case of Ukraine our western partners have overstretched their limit, says Putin.
