article_snippet.sent: a fall in the number of recreational players. '
article_snippet.sent: It was a nexus of self-preservation yet, as the wagons circled, the wheels kept threatening to fall off.'
article_snippet.sent: It was an intolerable position. '
article_snippet.sent: This seemed obvious to everyone – except to the men who run the game.'
article_snippet.sent: They hinted that some darker truth about his behaviour would emerge once a confidentiality agreement expired in October.
article_snippet.sent: Yet the lull merely prolonged the fiasco.
article_snippet.sent: And, when the dirt failed to materialise, The ECB looked rudderless.
article_snippet.sent: Worse, in the eyes of those agitating for an explanation, those agitating for an explanation looked indifferent. '
article_snippet.sent: It was typical of a story beyond The ECB's control that those agitating for an explanation best moment was not of those agitating for an explanation own making.