The Czechs have been a mixed bag, sliced and diced by Russia and then victorious against Greece thanks to a whirlwind start.
"Our style is very different and I believe if we use that and impact them with our style, there is definitely a chance we'll be victorious," their Iraqi midfielder Yaser Kasim told the Swindon Advertiser, intriguingly.
As far as Marca is concerned, the best way is to keep the message simple: "Gracias, gracias, gracias" reads the newspaper's headline above a picture of Spain's victorious Euro 2012 champions.
The recently elected prime minister conceded that the jury "is still out on me" as the country's leader when comparing his tenure to that of victorious Australian cricket captain and nation's favourite Michael Clarke.
She emerged victorious from her age section of the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta, immediately before the Masters in April.
By the time I posted the manifesto to reverse "42 years of hurt", it was clear that the FA was prepared to pay ludicrous money to the victorious candidate – plus the cost of English lessons, of which there were perhaps not as many as needed.
So Burnham (brilliantly embodied by Kevin Spacey) starts off a loser - twitchy, pallid, diminished - and winds up victorious.
Ashcroft has not yet published a poll from Hartlepool, but Ukip bosses are optimistic after the party emerged victorious in last year's European elections in the town.
The key for the SNP will be to emerge victorious in Scotland while making sure voters in the rest of the UK are not sufficiently spooked by this prospect to opt for the Conservatives over Labour.
Every time they have won an election since 1955 has been on a lower share of the vote than the time before, and they have not been victorious since 1992: and it is the death of working-class Toryism that is largely responsible.
The MC and DSO were fictitious; the VC was a Victorious Cross he awarded to himself; and the law degree, too, was self-conferred.
