There aren't any butchers, bakers or candlestick makers, but, in the best cup underdog tradition, the team come from all walks of life: there is a teacher, an accountant, an IT project manager, a carpenter, a recruitment consultant, an IT programmer, a physiotherapist, a telecoms salesman, a subway driver and a bunch of students.
She is the latest in a proud tradition of underdogs who win the heart of the British public.
Apologies to those of you who have been holding mock drafts for weeks, but I chose to spend my weekend experiencing all of the things that I love about sports: tradition, redemption, underdogs, hope, cheerleaders, marching bands, bonfires and ice-cold beverages.
Unless they are particularly bloodthirsty that is, in which case they should quite enjoy the early rounds, when a string of hapless underdogs from countries with no tradition in the sport get tied up in knots, squashed and pummelled by burly men and women from Eastern Europe and other countries where they take this kind of thing very seriously indeed.
Mr. Bradley said his eye had long been on Washington because its voters, particularly independents, have a tradition of voting for underdogs and of switching across party lines.
The fighting words served Mr. Gore well by perpetuating the Democratic tradition of fighting for the underdog or disenfranchised.
"I come from a Jewish tradition that has always fought for the underdog," Sam told me as he unfurled a banner of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in the sticky heat.
Fish?" There has always been a strong tradition within Jewish comedy of what one might call underdog humor — the voice of the nebbishy little guy using his wits to fend off or beguile or distract a hostile world.
Fish?" There has always been a strong tradition within Jewish comedy of what one might call underdog humor the voice of the nebbishy little guy using his wits to fend off or beguile or distract a hostile world.
And, finally, a tiny drama about a sad-sack underdog written and starring a struggling actor took home the top prize, beating out more artistic films that left tradition..
Like much of Joyce's work, the stories participate in a tradition linking Charles Pooter and Alan Bennett, working their quietly eccentric magic by finding strange seams of feeling in the commonplace and the underdog.
