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When the result is far more important than the performance, it would be churlish to nit-pick too much.

"There's a lot of things to nit-pick in the camp leading up to the fight and also in my performance," Joyce says.

"Some goalkeepers get pumped up before the games and people say it is a bit too much. When you are playing well, no-one picks at these things. As soon as you start not playing well, everyone starts to nit-pick at things."

If anything, one might nit-pick Mr. Youngkin for saying something so bland and obvious that it fails to define who he is as a political candidate.

You could nit-pick his quarterbacking, but Wilson’s devotion to the Seahawks and the manner in which he conducted his business were beyond reproach.