Which is a sadly apposite piece of phraseology.
That night, Woolmer, 58, returned to his room at the Pegasus Hotel and was discovered dead the following day. That set in chain a whirlwind of misinformation, speculation and, ultimately, we were left no wiser to what actually happened. The theories about his death were so abundant, it made it seem like there was a queue of people waiting outside his door to do the deed, from deranged fans, to match-fixing mafia, to Muslim extremists, to members of his team who were afraid he was about to reveal some of the side's darkest secrets.
Initially it was suspected he had died of a heart attack then, based on a pathologist's report, he was believed to have been strangled. A murder investigation was launched.
Three months later Jamaica police concluded he had died of natural causes. A coroner's inquest later returned an open verdict, refusing to rule out strangulation.
Most people have reservations about the natural causes theory. Former South African cricketer Clive Rice claimed that Woolmer was murdered by organised crime groups, saying: "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way." It might sound overly conspiratorial, but Rice's was a popular view.
Whatever the circumstances behind his tragic death, the Woolmer tragedy cast a pall over a World Cup that was disappointing on so many levels.
