mystified

And after the final whistle, Guardiola was involved in lengthy, animated dialogue with Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke, who looked mystified as he was on the receiving end of a lecture from the City manager.

It reached a mystified June Spencer while she was getting lunch in the BBC canteen.

Sources close to the player have said they were mystified why Ten Hag should end up talking about Rashford’s ill-advised trip to Belfast nearly eight months earlier, before the game at Selhurst Park.

The piece includes quotes from former friends and colleagues who remain mystified by her silent cosign of her husband’s radically awful politics.

It is perhaps time to say the ugly part out loud: We would not be so mystified by Vance’s loud or quiet cosign of her husband were she white.