It was a match that desperately needed an early goal to force one team to abandon the tactical caginess that has been a feature of the opening round of fixtures.
Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.
Mr Umunna suggested the decision to appoint Prof Ebdon had been a "trade off" by Mr Cable in return for rumoured plans to abandon penalties for university students who pay off their tuition fees early.
We called on the DPRK to comply fully with its commitments under the 2005 Joint Statement of the Six Party Talks and its obligations under the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions and abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes and return, at an early date, to the NPT and to IAEA safeguards.
Early Monday, KLA and KFOR commanders approved a demilitarization agreement requiring the KLA to cease all hostilities, abandon its checkpoints and stockpile heavy weaponry.