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With a 15th league loss of the campaign – a club record in the Premier League era - Amorim has no option other than to try to eke out any positives from the woeful experience he is going through.

Both candidates now are trying to "bring their enemies to the battlefield" to eke out an advantage, he added.

By the end of Lynch’s run Magellan was a behemoth struggling to eke out “a razor thin margin of victory,” as investment commentator William Bernstein put it.

Then, Ukraine just about managed to eke out its existing stocks of ammunition with the help of Europe.

"It is stodgy, it is kick tennis, it is quite negative and it is fine to eke out one-point victories, but when those games go against you - which they will at times - you are going to get huge negative feedback."