Assuming the feds had done right and let AIG go under (its error one of failing to hedge its exposure to CDSs), those in need of credit default insurance could have simply taken their business to other financial companies ready and willing to provide what AIG no longer could.
The players knew it was a goal, their manager knew it was a goal and they could have done something about it - let us go up the other end and score or something.
"I have every confidence in the London Marathon community and the Metropolitan Police that they won't let it go ahead unless they have done everything possible, " she said in a BBC interview.