It was clear immediately that his game was over and he walked away disconsolately to be replaced by Rooney.

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He is a starchy, somewhat aloof figure, ridiculed in his previous campaign for strolling disconsolately through empty supermarket aisles looking for hands to shake.

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Indeed, those without prior knowledge would never have guessed Di Matteo's side were on the brink of Premier League football as they trudged off disconsolately.

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Her sophisticated soldier husband, the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, taunted her with a succession of mistresses, and she took disconsolately to religion, and to trumpeting the superiority of her native land.

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