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It’s folly to look too far ahead in the NFL because injuries and circumstances can dramatically change the landscape from week to week.

He also correctly predicted that the war on terror would degenerate into folly, tragedy and war crimes, with a side order of corrupt contracting and bureaucratic empire-building.

In 1999, his dismissal of Nato's military action in Yugoslavia as "unpardonable folly" was widely criticised.

Salmond described the Nato action as "an act of dubious legality, but, above all, one of unpardonable folly" and was heavily criticised for his comments.

Carsley’s courage in attempting it was commendable but from the first whistle it was exposed as folly.