If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.
It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.
He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.