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He had calmed down by the end of the official news conference, after which he told BBC Sport: "Of course these things happen, I just hope it wasn't deliberate."

With conference about to start, it's almost a Tory tradition to fill the papers and podcasts with gripes about the party leader.

The announcement on the eve of the party's conference in Manchester will settle the party's position following months of internal divisions.

“I just accepted failing, so my thought process on failing changed,” Betts said in an introspective press conference on the eve of the playoffs.

In fact, ever since that 2024 winter of discontent, news conferences, articles and the narrative of pretty much every game they have played has been dominated by what had gone so badly wrong before.