In the summer, Chelsea sold Ricardo Carvalho, which meant the tried and trusted partnership with Terry was broken up.

BBC: Alan Hansen on Chelsea's problems

Rangers manager Walter Smith laid down the gauntlet to Panathinaikos, abandoning his tried and trusted 4-5-1 formation and fielding strikers Kris Boyd and Novo in an attacking starting XI.

BBC: Panathinaikos 1-1 Rangers

What opera-goers seem to want is the tried and trusted formula which attracts them to the operatic classics not media images, post-modern playfulness, overt politics or heavy symbolism, but a compelling human story, a gripping plot and a varied but fundamentally tuneful score.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera

Worse still, in a desperate attempt to make the weekend, McIlroy gave up on his new sponsor's putter the Nike Method and went back to his tried and trusted short stick, one designed by Scotty Cameron and made by Nike's archrival of the golf manufacturing world, Titleist.

WSJ: Rory McIlroy, Nike Hoping for Long-Term Benefit

For the majority of the first half, Chris Hughton's men opted not to deliver the tried-and-trusted diagonal balls into Carroll and instead tried to get behind the Bolton defence.

BBC: Bolton 5-1 Newcastle

At the point, Munster went back to their tried-and-trusted forward-dominated game with Paul O'Connell leading the home charge.

BBC: Munster 24-10 Ulster

Over the past 25 years, the authorities have had a tried-and-trusted method for bringing a halt to this vicious circle: cutting interest rates.

ECONOMIST: The impossible task of eliminating uncertainty

And if they are not, and instead suffer catastrophic losses, whether the retail investors who entrusted them with their savings money will feel that the tried-and-trusted UCITS has let them down.

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Both men clearly know how to get the best out of their team and I can't wait to see if either springs a surprise on the day rather than sticking to the tried-and-trusted gameplan.

BBC: Long to steer Saints to victory