Laughing in the face of bad luck seems to be their coping mechanism of choice – and it has worked.
Elise Christie began the week thinking the unthinkable: she was debating whether to go home to Nottingham and turn her back on her first Olympics before her best event in the face of bad luck and a torrent of Twitter abuse.
But he accepted pupils faced "an element of luck", for example in terms of having an inspirational teacher.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Hunt, said "primary schools is where it all starts and catching people young is incredibly important" but he accepted pupils faced "an element of luck", for example in terms of having an inspirational teacher.
For keeping the dream alive in the face of intolerable bad luck?
But his good cheer in the face of his hard luck became emblematic of those Mets teams.
It is extreme patience in the face of the worst of luck.
"And it all came about because I gatecrashed Smile Off Your Face and had a bit of luck when I sat down in a particular chair," he says.
WILL a change of face bring better luck to the struggling Free Democrats, Germany's champions of individual freedom and the market?
ON THE face of it, South Africa just had a stroke of luck.
