And yes, if you set rules you have to police them properly and the football authorities seem pretty hopeless at it.
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There are of plenty of books written about it, but, regrettably, many are pretty hopeless.
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By the numbers, the situation sounds pretty hopeless.
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The first says that he's pretty hopeless and probably has no future in architecture.
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He quickly began to realise that he was actually pretty hopeless at being a celebrity.
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