let the side down

"With the way the boys led us out, we didn't want to let the side down," McIlroy told BBC Sport.

Ex-colonel Tim Collins, best known for delivering the Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraq War in which he called on his officers to "show respect", said Prince Harry had "badly let the side down" and "we don't do notches on the rifle butt".

“He has badly let the side down. We don’t do notches on the rifle butt. We never did.”

He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had "let the side down" by doing so.

“But we bit the bullet and stayed resolute and just got on with it because we were told we had a duty and we couldn’t let the side down. Now is the time for others to do the same.”