By 1996, he was on his way back to Ireland to take up the job of coaching four-counties whipping boys Connacht.
The countries share top place with nine points and Malawi will remain in contention provided they triumph away to whipping boys Djibouti.
Hence, we will see this week the Democratic leadership pushing for legislation to punish "speculators" who are their latest whipping boys for the current crisis.
Toshack had made no secret of his desire for a good start on the road to South Africa but it was the supposed whipping boys of Group Four who surprised the hosts.
Although civilian contractors like Haliburton have become favorite whipping boys for anti-war critics, their personnel are also putting their lives on the line to help the people of Iraq turn things around.
In order to create the funds necessary for student loan forgiveness, 54% of respondents said the government should erase subsidies to oil and gas companies, the cliche whipping boys of students everywhere.
Against all predictions they progressed to the last four at the expense of England and France, defeated Holland on penalties and went on to thump Germany 2-0 in the final - not a bad run for the whipping boys.
The Senate committee has regularly looked at energy issues, and given that Goldman Sachs and BP have both become bipartisan whipping boys, there could be political hay to be made in hauling them before a hearing on oil price manipulation.
The Sunnis, meanwhile, worry that they will not only lose their privileged position in Saddam's Iraq, but that they will become the new Iraq's whipping boys: it is no coincidence that most of the attacks on coalition forces and sabotage of electricity installations have occurred in Sunni areas.
When Rick Santorum hammered on the illegal immigrant problem as he did when he got in trouble in his Senate race, or as he did to try to displace Rick Perry as the leading social conservative in the presidential primary, those are his brothers and sisters who he was using as political whipping boys.
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