slipped

"It's putting a spotlight on some really tiny games that might have slipped by."

It is to Hayen's credit that he slipped seamlessly into life in the Pembrokeshire market town, despite having to leave his family in Belgium.

“What if my son was choking? What if my wife slipped and fell in the shower and cracked her head open?” he said in an interview with The Times on Sunday.

In his absence, last season's champions have slipped 20 points behind leaders Liverpool in the Premier League and been knocked out of the Champions League.

I had just slipped back into bed after our infant daughter’s 4 a.m. feeding when my partner, Sean, turned over and said, “We should go now. I smell smoke.”