hothouse

As with much of Carsley's reign, England entered this Athens hothouse with sub-plots in the background, this time the nine withdrawals from the squad which was met with a critical public response from the normally strictly-on-message captain Harry Kane.

That pressure is very often from players and managers in the fierce hothouse of elite-level football, trickling right down to the grassroots.

The major problem for Martin is that he and Southampton are trying to get better at what they do in the unforgiving hothouse of the Premier League, where better players punish mistakes, where naivety carries a heavy price.

When they bring these cases, they have the Federalist Society doing the research and creating the sort of legal hothouse theories that make up the amicus briefs that they also fund.

Many who follow the sport would agree that few coaches last long in those overpriced hothouse environments.