Sentence examples for fluke victory from inspiring English sources

The question that matters most is not "Who won?" but rather "Who's the best?" And to anyone who wants to answer this second question, a fluke victory has very different implications from a near-draw, or a lopsided drubbing.

Seton Hall got a couple of fluke victories over Georgetown and beat Upsala nine times to have a better than.500 record.

But back in 1960-61 it was very much a competition in its own right, full of useless teams who had fluked victory in their own domestic knockout.

While it is true we never enjoyed the elation experienced by followers of an underdog side that flukes a victory against expectations, not one of us would have swapped places with fans of another team.

SWITZERLAND There are plenty of reasons why not to support Switzerland, not least their soul-sappingly miserable anti-football in 2010, when they fluked a joyless victory over Spain, and then proceeded to fail to score in their remaining two games and be justifiably, mercifully eliminated.

There is no fluking an Open victory, no lucky knock-out punch nor long-range shot that can steal it for you as other sporting crowns can be won.

Last year, some folks might have thought that his victory was a fluke.

Professor Ehrlich dismissed Professor Simon's victory as a fluke, but Mr. Brand saw something his mentor didn't.

Mexico, on the other hand, will be looking to prove that this summer's Gold Cup victory was no fluke.

Some dismissed that victory as a fluke but at the Jamaican Olympic trials this summer Blake confirmed his pedigree.

At a press conference in South Carolina the morning after Obama won the state, Bill Clinton seemed to dismiss the victory as a fluke of local demography.