Manning has had his critics, and at times deservedly so, yet when the game is on the line, Eli has proven he can win Super Bowls under such circumstances.
Maynard Smith emerges from his bank of laptops looking shattered, yet deservedly proud of the achievement.
But, after watching Peter Berg's surprisingly yet deservedly angry restaging of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which caused 11 deaths and the biggest oil spill in history, it'll take a minor PR miracle to restore the average moviegoer's faith in BP.
And yet they deservedly beat Gremio.
"It's inevitable that minds will be on Liverpool," Marcelino Garcia Toral had said and he made 10 – yes, 10 – changes from the side that started against Liverpool yet Villarreal still deservedly defeated Valencia 2-0.
If they're not drinking their own weight in beer, slutting it up with the entire football team, or short-circuiting on the geek-o-meter and shooting half the high school because they just don't like Mondays, then they're deservedly getting slashed to beautiful yet bloody pieces by a deranged psychopath who fancies his own mum.
And yet… Uber faces deservedly rigorous questions about its tax policies – recent accusations that it minimises its tax arrangements in the UK – the transparency of its "surge" pricing and whether its process for vetting drivers meets regulations to protect people.
Its mass-education universities come deservedly low in the world rankings, yet Paris's famous grandes écoles are among the best in the world.
Yet for all the accolades deservedly applied towards screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher, it is actor Jesse Eisenberg who has had to inhabit and give life to a simulacrum that illustrates what makes a visionary like Mark Zuckerberg tick.
Pelle's wonderful header saw Saints deservedly restore their lead in the second half, but yet again Spurs pegged Saints back as Chadli slotted home.
Liverpool deservedly triumphed at Wembley after producing 39 shots, yet they were a Kenny Miller miss away from losing in normal time and had the woodwork to thank twice for beating the Championship team in a penalty shootout.
