They were prepared to allow this extraordinary vision of what modern warfare is like at grass-roots level, but I think they were very happy that journalists did have to struggle to put the pieces together.
Analyst Gordon Johnson of Hapoalim Securities thinks a struggle to keep Wall Street happy is leading to financial shenanigans throughout the solar industry.
While traditional markets in Europe continue to struggle with their debt crises, China and India will be only too happy to race on ahead and pick up the slack.
This is why Mourinho is more than happy to indulge - listing United's setbacks in the south when Ferguson suggested Chelsea would struggle in the north.
And Poles, Czechs and the rest must be happy, for the foreseeable future, to be out of the inner sanctum, even as they struggle to enter the outer one.