Nothing would provide a more urgent wake-up call to prepare for life after football, to treat their money with more respect and to counter the tendency to narcissism.

His efforts to quantify his research could not fully counter his tendency to be subjective and impressionistic, and at worst rather eccentric.

One of the first major projects was the development of profiled/pre-worn wheels which helped counter the tendency of new wheels to hunt.

This helped determine the radical shape of the body, and countered the tendency of coursed electric guitars to be head-heavy owing to the weight of the extra machine heads.