"As an Arsenal fan, I've noticed that whenever we win the Charity Shield, we inevitably go on not to win the league," wrote Matt Tread back in January 2005, when the annual pre-season Wembley showcase traditionally contested by the Premier League champions and the FA Cup winners gloried in a more traditional moniker.
Frankly my dear, to paraphrase a respectable winner from glory days long gone, I won't.
Richard Hannon has chosen to send last Saturday's impressive QEII winner, Olympic Glory, rather than Toronado to Santa Anita for the Breeders' Cup Mile next week.
Pellegrini agrees that as a unit they could find an edge as May's Milan final appears on the horizon and this band of serial winners glimpse glory.
There were stunning scenes at ANZ Stadium as fans chanted Glory, "Glory To South Sydney" and players wept at full-time, Souths running out 30-6 winners.
Not even the attendance of Woods's girlfriend, the skier Lindsey Vonn, could inspire the 14-times major winner towards further glory.
And while being one of the year's worst dressed is perhaps not what every woman longs for, I accept the recognition with the same equanimity I feel toward my other lofty honors: Miss Guinness, Miss Coney Island Mermaid Queen and my crowning glory, winner of the Ernest Borgnine Look-Alike Contest.
The horse, plus last year's runner-up Opinion Poll in the same race, are Godolphin's big hopes of the week, though the 2011 winner, Fame And Glory, will be a tricky nut to crack.
The only prize for the winners is eternal glory: I'll publish excerpts from the best submissions in my column or blog.
Do great C.E.O.'s and Nobel Prize winners achieve their glory through execution?" Rather than looking at the details of managing a company as "micromanaging," Mr. Bossidy says, a chief executive must be intimately engaged in people management, strategic development and operations, which includes budgeting.
