The manager he remembers "built teams which were designed to avoid defeat" and "often – indeed, too often for comfort – stood accused of regarding narrow defeats at the hands of his club's perceived betters akin to triumphs".
The vote also presents the Trump administration with something akin to a diplomatic triumph.
Many interpret this as a populist triumph akin to Brexit and to Trump's election, driven by economic distress.
The sequencing of the human genome is often described as a triumph akin to landing on the moon.
Finally, several historians, yours truly included, have described Washington's victory at Trenton as a merely symbolic or psychological triumph, akin to the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in 1942.
But every April, when we're viewing the blooming magnolias and baize-like greens at Augusta National Golf Club, some of us like to pretend that the Masters tournament is an annual ritual that captures various profundities of the human condition — something akin to a Greek tragedy, full of triumph, tragedy, and pathos.
I've seen people try to order a beer at brunch, and the response from the wait staff is akin to telling a date your favorite movie is Triumph of the Will and you love ball torture.
Netflix Woes Netflix's story of triumph has turned quickly into something akin to "The China Syndrome".
Hence, Globe-Trotter has largely stayed little known outside Britain, valued for its proper British virtues of intelligence, durability and reliability, akin to low-key stalwarts like the Burberry trench, the Triumph motorcycle or the BBC.
As a triumph of democracy, the changes to the succession rules are akin to the Skull and Bones accepting sophomores as well as juniors.
And while there were never any riots akin to that which took place in Trafalgar Square two weeks after Scotland had triumphed, there were plenty in the country who refused to pay the poll tax as a form of protest.
