But even at that disappointing moment the Liverpool manager was surely insulated against the worst of despair.
Starting with 1984's He Died With His Eyes Wide Open, Raymond's Factory Novels are a masterclass of noir, placing his unnamed detective sergeant protagonist within the framework of the worst possible despair and blind rage that would fell most men.
You probably did not need the recent University of Melbourne survey to tell you that a majority of voters think our level of political debate is the worst ever: they despair at the quality of political leadership; an even greater majority has even less confidence in the media.
Fearing the worst, he falls into despair.
But Hopkins was also a poet of anger and terror, frustration, mundanity, even despair: "No worst, there is none," he wrote.
Athletes in team sports are able to rally around one another, draw energy from one another, and, if needed, share despair in the worst moments.
Remember: for three years in the 1980s he was a community organizer in Roseland, one of the worst, most poverty-stricken and despair-driven neighborhoods in Chicago.
At the end of August, India was in a state of despair and facing its worst economic spot since the crisis in 1991.
I wash my hands and pull the paper towel, sometimes imagining the worst: a child, a gun, rage, despair, and contemplations of murder or suicide.
"Despair and abstention are the worst enemies of such a struggle, and they are luxuries that Israel's citizens cannot afford".
