On day one, television cameras followed him about on the trail, only to film a door being shut in his face by someone who had failed to realise his luck in having Britain's future leader drop by.
It is wrong to claim that Ranieri only had to be smart enough to realise his luck in taking over a team that merely needed to keep on doing what it had done under his predecessor.
As the crowd howled its displeasure, Podolski realised his luck was in, sized up Neuer's position and lashed into the roof of the net.
If we'd known a year ago what we know now we'd have realised how much luck is involved in this kind of life change – and you can't plan for luck, so you need to allow plenty of time".
Braddon said he had tightened the girth just before the off, "one notch up and another for luck", without realising that Cazalet had already done it in the saddling enclosure.
The executioner's blade that hangs over the kind and clever man of this drama makes you realise just how quickly your luck could turn.
Bowden must have realised he was pushing his luck – ministerial communications enjoy an infamous exemption from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
After having suffered Pope Benedict's media-antipathy (although his red Prada shoes made regular headlines), the Italian journalism industry couldn't believe their luck when they realised there was finally a pope who could ride the bus, carry his own bag and who wasn't immune to the flu.
How many other schoolboys would even have realised, let alone celebrated, their "terrific luck" that two English teachers, both liked and respected, disagreed profoundly as to whether Paradise Lost was any good?
As luck would have it, he soon realised that he'd landed in a company "whose values coincided completely with my own".
Assume for a moment that outperformance is entirely due to luck but that retail investors do not realise this.
