Nine months later, though, the hopes of the club destined to become the greatest England had ever seen were destroyed in the slush on the runaway of Munich's old airport.
If Labour picks a leader destined to lose, then the leadership is an empty prize.
But it was a disastrous day for Yeovil who appear destined for the drop after conceding three second-half goals to Chesterfield to give up a 2-0 lead.
Known in English as the "Soldiers of Destiny", the party founded by Éamon de Valera seemed destined to be out of office once the next general election was called in the republic.
But beyond the practicality of missing documents, their greatest hurdle is the perception that what is born in a slum is destined to stay in a slum.
Or is this one destined for a place on the shelf alongside rare Pixar duds such as Cars?
The government is also staring down the Senate, where its $7 Medicare co-payment and changes to pension eligibility and the pension age appear destined to fail.
Doing so at an Iowa community college, before the studied gaze of the American media, was destined to be even harder.
But we also need to break down the social barriers, often most obvious at work, which limit some families' aspiration by convincing them that they are destined never to be more than hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Cute! See, Fey's Palin impression was a big hit for the show back in 2008, got marvellous ratings, and will long be remembered as a seminal SNL moment – but not, as one might think, because Sarah Palin was some wacky, harmless goofball destined to be a delightful footnote in the annals of election history.
Employees at East Kilbride engineering yard in Scotland refused to fix bomber-plane engines destined for Chile, forcing Rolls Royce to break its contract with the Chilean air force.
