blatancy

MEPs who spoke to our correspondent say they are shocked by both the scale and blatancy of the accusations.

“There’s no precedent for the attack on science, the sweep of it, the blatancy of it that we saw in the last administration,” Mr. Reilly said.

At that point it was tempting to draw parallels with Leeds’ recent defeat against West Ham, when they similarly had two early goals ruled out with wildly differing degrees of blatancy.

“Clearly, the Commissioner did not fully appreciate the severity of the situation in which our brave Brother found himself, despite its blatancy,” Mancuso wrote in a statement.

The blatancy of the act for which they were convicted represented a particularly contemptuous dismissal of the values the game once embodied and which survive, just about, in its various modern forms.