Sentence examples for slice of fortune from inspiring English sources

Cook was beyond reproach, Root needed a slice of fortune.

West Brom is not a pauper's club, but its coach, Roy Hodgson, will need his wiles, and no doubt a slice of fortune to overturn a City team that, with a minimum of three goals in most games, is setting records.

Guardiola may still be relatively new in the coaching game but he has experienced enough top-class football to know that referees, gamesmanship, the particular bounce of a ball, a slice of fortune or an ill wind all play their part.

She quotes Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème: "If a slice of fortune falls into their hands, you will see them at once mounted on the most ruinous fancies... never finding sufficient windows to throw their money out of".

It was the slice of fortune England craved, if hardly deserved.

The Clarets benefited from a slice of fortune when they doubled their advantage four minutes later.

These are the slices of fortune upon which careers can flourish and ones that have evaded England's Alex Hales during his brief time as a Test player.

The answer came via a slice of good fortune.

Even then, there was a slice of good fortune attached to Theo Walcott's goal.

Although much of Liverpool's early football was mesmerising, they required a slice of good fortune to underscore their superiority.

Prior's strangest slice of good fortune was when a bouncer looped off his shoulder and appeared to slide down the front of the stumps.