inertia

“You can’t completely stop something that has this much inertia, spreading this quickly with as much fuel burning as fast as it is. However, when we see the fire stops as a certain point — it didn’t go all the way to the coast, for instance — ultimately, many lives were saved,” Cohen said.

“The bureaucracy lends itself to inertia,” he said.

Maybe they had been stung by reports of inertia, or the risk of Tuchel being a target for Manchester United, who spoke to the German coach in the summer.

It has created an inertia which will only be solved by someone, perhaps the FA, showing their hand.

But the UK's inertia cannot be blamed on Brexit alone.