But, come Monday night, he'll be tuned in and pulling extra hard for his beloved Tide.
It explains why Sonia egged on her MPs to go extra hard on the BJP in parliament.
If you have a poor or weak employment brand you have to work extra hard, and often the best people go elsewhere.
"We're going to have to work extra hard to get those pucks through and then get them to reach the net, " Julien said.
Further, says Peabody, world steel production is up 8% this year, requiring an added 75 million tons of extra hard and hot-burning metallurgical coal.
If you want to get a job as a programmer and you are self-taught, then you will need to work extra hard and have great examples to showcase your skills.
Sometimes the greatest personal achievement was looking out for fellow Marines by training them extra hard or jolting them from their sense of complacency in the final weeks of a deployment.
As a World Cup winner in 1999, Burke arrived on Tyneside with a massive reputation, and says he worked extra hard to prove he was here for sporting rather than financial reasons.
An ex who is successful at winning back the love of his life already knows what he needs to do without having to ask, he knows his past works against him so tries extra hard to overcome past history, and he backs up what he says with actions and real substance.
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So even as we're tackling issues of supply and demand, even as we're looking at the long-term in terms of how we can structurally make ourselves less reliant on foreign oil, we still need to work extra hard to protect consumers from factors that should not affect the price of a barrel of oil.
On a similar note, in this era of non-conspicuous consumption, when Target and Wal-Mart have become brand badges for those who can afford Saks and Neiman-Marcus, companies that represent prestige brands are going to have to work extra hard to make sure that the entire experience of the brand is worth its weighty title and price tag.
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Pfizer can be expected to engage in a pitched marketing battle against any competition, perhaps arguing that lowering bad cholesterol with statins has extra, hard-to-measure benefits that doing so with Zetia does not.
The proposal has introduced an extra amount of hard-to-calculate political risk for Hong Kong's already struggling financial markets.
So parents give their children an extra banana or hard-boiled egg.
Others argue that Mr Castro thinks that the reforms of the special period have achieved their aim of stabilising the economy, so he can now dispense with these extra sources of hard currency.
For the investment club, it meant the possibility of having a few extra dollars for some hard working finance folks and an all-expense outing at the Cheese Cake Factory.
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Framing with a fixed lens is incredibly challenging, and while I was up to the task, as a casual photographer, I can't say it enriched my experience enough to warrant unloading an extra two grand of hard-earned cash.
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Doubly encrypting the calls plus the extra routing did make it initially hard to maintain good voice quality, said Salter.
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They have found it hard to pass the extra costs on to their customers swiftly, partly because they sign contracts for bulk orders.
Indeed, skeptics point out that the relatively small number of people who use mobile apps for shopping make it hard to generate much extra business with them.
Although it is plausible to suspect that low pay encourages government officials to seek extra income, a strong correlation is hard to draw.
The reason reversing such gains is hard is that servicing this extra flesh means a person's maintenance diet (the food required to keep his body ticking over) creeps up with his weight and so does his appetite.
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The impact of the extra oil revenues on international financial markets is hard to assess.
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This is a mix of performance-based pay and extra pay for working in jobs that are hard to fill and for taking leadership roles.
Trading can be hard enough for folks without the extra fear that they are absolutely doomed from the start because of who is on the other side of the trade.
I've been training hard recently and this will give me extra motivation for the Commonwelath Games.
"When he hits the ball hard, it's usually for extra bases and drives people in, " New York manager Joe Girardi said.
Despite these widespread beliefs, there is no hard evidence at this time that consuming extra vitamin C is beneficial to our health.
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