Though he was in his late forties, the man's face appeared older. Creased by age and anxiety, it remained characteristically expressionless under sandy-brown hair sprinkled with gray.

Painting kitchen walls a sandy brown, a SLATE gray or an antique white allows for versatility in color play with artwork and accessories.

Not quite the full Sandy Brown, perhaps, but it was harder to work out what Diaby was intending than, say, Liverpool's Lucas when he scored for Aston Villa last Monday.