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"The scale of what had gone on – we would never even begin to fathom what had happened," Mr Philip's son, Liam, told the BBC.

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Why it is so hard for away teams to prosper at alternate shot is hard to fathom.

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It’s hard to fathom that any lawyer would put their name to it.

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Where this has led could be fathomed at the Ojai Festival in June.

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"There was this silence, people were just trying to fathom what had just happened," remembers BBC Radio Newcastle host Simon Pryde, who was in the crowd.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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