The design has had a rather contentious journey through the various technical committees set up by the EEC to study the problem; individual member nations with particular axes to grind holding up the proceedings at regular intervals.

. . . passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town.

One who hesitates is lost, goes the old saw, but so is one who plunges blindly ahead along a fixed path.

The game ended in a draw.