Their name and colours (blue-white and red-black) pay tribute to the clubs from which they emerged and they have enjoyed spells of veritable success.
In a timely article the former Austrian finance minister, Hannes Androsch, points out that, notwithstanding all the obvious flaws, "it is forgotten that Europe, especially the EU, is a veritable success story, as this continent has never before experienced a period such as the past seven decades of democracy, peace and prosperity".
It received a positive review in the June 1908 issue of The Moving Picture World which described the film as "truly funny" and that it proved to be "a veritable success".
By Katarzyna Pawelczyk SOWETO, South Africa, 29 September 2011 - In its fourth year of implementation at the Senaoane Secondary School in Soweto, the UNICEF-supported programme Sports for Development, has gone a long way in turning around what was once identified as the most 'critical' school in Gauteng Province, into a veritable success story.
And those who do, those who still need a sign-off from Penguin or Random House to feel like a veritable publishing success don't know what they're missing.
David Whittaker, managing director of Mortgages for Business, said: "Volumes are up, values are up and, even more encouragingly, arrears are down – a veritable podium of lending success". Mr Whittaker said that this trend is likely to continue into the traditionally busier autumn period, which should set up the market well for the end of the year.
After the success in Keflavík, a veritable football housing boom ensued, made possible by an economic upturn unlike any that Iceland had ever experienced.
Now called Midtown, the area is one of Detroit's most striking economic-revival success stories and a veritable haven for small businesses, which had been among the biggest casualties of the city's urban decay.
Any reforms would be balanced against a long history of SIS success in capturing a veritable Who's Who of Los Angeles bad guys, including the Alphabet Bomber, the Freeway Strangler and the killer of Bill Cosby's son, Ennis.
Atkinson was a towering success against Bambrick, Britton a veritable ammunition factory for the right wing, and Robinson was daunted neither by Phillips's dazzling raiment nor by the magic word "Arsenal" when Rogers and Phillips exchanged places in the second half.
Having released their debut album, An Awesome Wave, to a veritable standing ovation from critics and respectable commercial success, the band named after the Apple keyboard shortcut for a delta symbol has already been dubbed "the new Radiohead", and forthcoming headline tours on both sides of the Atlantic are almost sold out.
