He lasted so long because, in addition to organisational cohesion and engaging charisma, he enjoyed an attribute that the country's best manager in recent times, Mick McCarthy, famously lacked: luck.
Real defender Sergio Ramos said: "We gave our all but we lacked luck in the first half, and they controlled the game better after that.
We are just lacking some luck, that's all".
Nigger said the Talented Tenth were "clichty" [bourgeois] and jealous because they lacked the luck to be black on Saturday night.
Venezuela's current president has also lacked the luck of sky-high oil prices to fund loyalty-securing subsidies for the poor.
Granted, it is bad luck for me if I am born uncharming and lacking in good lucks and others are not voluntarily willing to enter into romance or friendship with me, but my distressed condition does not tend to show that my rights have been violated.
Reviewing the original production in The New York Times, Lewis Nichols said, with a yawn: " 'The Man Who Had All the Luck' lacks either the final care or the luck to make it a good play.
The brute bad luck of a person with a disability is to find herself in a disabling environment (Fine and Asch, 1988).[10] For example, much of the bad luck in lacking the ability to walk is in living in a built environment designed for people who do, rather than people who move around in wheelchairs.
In the fickle world of scouting and drafting, several factors could have led to the drop off: lack of talent, lack of development and, in some cases, lack of luck.
"We didn't take our chances; maybe we lacked a little luck, but that's football".
