Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

Ironically, only Prost was able to agree terms with Williams for 1993, leaving a seat free for Patrese had he remained with the team.

Ironically the team that came sixteenth in Accrington's last season were Newton Heath, playing their first season in the league, who were later to become Manchester United.

Ironically, in 1926, when the National Football League added traveling teams to nominally represent the West ( with a team nominally representing Los Angeles ) and South ( with a team nominally representing Louisville, Kentucky ), Buffalo, New York's NFL team renamed itself the Buffalo Rangers and represented Texas in the league.

Ironically, a wave of F1 drivers went to the Speedway in the 1960s, and the mid-engine revolution that was started in F1 by the Cooper team changed the face of the 500 as well ; since Jim Clark's win in 1965, every winner has driven a rear-engined car.

Ironically, while the Jackson 5 were noted instrumentalists, none of the members played any of their own instruments on the albums, as Motown had a hired team of West Coast and Detroit musicians playing on their recordings.

Ironically he isn't, but his friends Sara Kodama and Bello Korissha along with his schoolteacher Mamado Azaf are members of the Gauli team, a militia unit of the local Exodus group.

Ironically the majority of the senior players on this Western Bulldogs team saw their debut and early development under the coaching of Wallace while he was with the Bulldogs.

Ironically, it was Waltrip's rival and long-time nemesis Cale Yarborough, the hard-charging, and hugely successful driver for legendary driver / owner Junior Johnson, that privately told Waltrip that he intended to cut back on his racing appearances and leave the highly coveted Junior Johnson team at the end of the 1980 season, opening the position for a new driver.

Ironically, the team behind the programme included Cillian Fennell, an ex-RTÉ producer who had worked on The Late Late Show during Gay Byrne's final season.

Ironically, Ancient Anguish has been cited by original EverQuest designer Ryan Palacio as being heavily played by the EverQuest development team.

Ironically, Ekman was assigned by DARPA to head the red team, that is to defeat his own measures.

Ironically, the South African team at that time was probably the strongest in the world.

Ironically the Cardinals had been the Browns ' tenants since 1920, even though they had long since passed the Browns as St. Louis ' favorite team.

Ironically, two of the longest standing and formerly most prominent Appleby team sports are no longer offered.

Ironically, the only century Gayle scored in the event ended in defeat as Mid West Rhinos's Brendan Taylor's outstanding 75 * outlasted his team.

Ironically on New Year's Day 1936, a combined Dinamo-Spartak team traveled to Paris to face Racing Club de France, then one of Europe's top teams.

Ironically, he was picked up by the same New England team that he suffered his injury against.

Ironically, Chiron himself, led by the lure of a superior car, had driven for the Mercedes-Benz team, which the Nazis were using as an object of propaganda for their philosophy of racial superiority, at a time when his Jewish colleague and rival René Dreyfus could not.

Ironically, his departure came at a time when he was getting more first team opportunities than he had done since the 1988 – 89 season.

Ironically, when Kidd first joined Blackburn after being assistant manager at Manchester United, McClair was one of several high profile names to be linked with the assistant manager's vacancy at Old Trafford, as was former team mate Steve Bruce – who was managing Sheffield United at this stage.

Ironically, Santa Clara's opponent in the final was Virginia, coached by Bruce Arena who would later succeed Sampson as head coach of the United States men's national soccer team.

Ironically, despite being dominated by the Bronx Bombers in the WS, the Reds would be the team to return in 1940 to win the World Series while the Yankees lost out to Detroit in the AL pennant race, snapping their consecutive World Series appearances streak at four.

Ironically it was preparations for this concert, rather than historical interest, that brought about the first detailed post-Cold War survey of the area with a view to determining what, if anything, was left of Hitler's bunker and any other underground installations.

Ironically, after Jennings left the session, the idea was dropped at the prompting of Stevie Wonder, who pointed out that Ethiopians did not speak Swahili.

Ironically, Gearreald was blind and could not see the clock ; she had no idea only a few moments were left in the game.

Ironically, despite everything Jackson had done for the Yankees that night, the uncontrollable behavior of Yankee Stadium fans left him feeling understandably worried for his safety.

Ironically, she left the most important contribution from Diane stay-the garden.

Ironically the accident was not filmed by the RTÉ film crew ; they had left the ship some hours earlier to catch some sleep after 15 hours continuous filming.

Ironically he had left Portsmouth for Tottenham Hotspur 2 days earlier and he was booed by fans at the presentation.

Ironically, the hunger circuses left unfinished after the 1989 Revolution were later completed, as capitalist malls such as Bucharest Mall in Vitan, City Mall and Plaza România in Militari.

Ironically, LT also left the IST in 2003 leaving the tendency with no affiliate in the US.

Ironically, doing so may very well have saved Simpson's life as well, as he would have died of exposure if he had been left to hang in the strong freezing wind for much longer.

Ironically, only two years before, McDougald was struck in the left ear during batting practice by a ball hit by teammate Bob Cerv.

Ironically, it was the 3 – 0 home defeat to Bochum on 5 May that mathematically secured HSV's Bundesliga status as struggling Alemannia Aachen ( 16th ) and Mainz ( 17th ) also lost their games on the same weekend and despite the points difference only being six points with two games left, the goal difference was too large to make up by either club.

Ironically, Peter Hobart, who served as assistant vicar of St. Edmunds following his graduation from Magdalene College, Cambridge, later left Suffolk for the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, where Hobart became the first pastor of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, the oldest church in continuous use in the United States.

Ironically, Albino later on left " Trio San Juan " and joined " Los Panchos ", as the leading voice, replacing another legendary trio singer, Hernando Aviles.

Ironically it was Nuno Santos who first contracted Gato Fedorento to RTP when the quartet left SIC due to a contractual disagreement.

Ironically, Eastwood's replacement of Philip Kaufman on The Outlaw Josey Wales ( and the consequent need to handle post-production on that film ) left Eastwood without enough time to prepare himself to direct The Enforcer.

Ironically perhaps, the Deputy Leader of the Labour ( Militant ) Group on Council at the time was a former LI schoolboy Derek Hatton who had left without academic distinction in 1964 and with strong feelings of dislike towards the school.

Ironically, the decision to designate the Suffield Block a military training facility in 1941 left tens of square kilometres of undisturbed prairie grassland intact from the effects of industrial agriculture.

Ironically, Herbert was the one who left the group in 1991, leaving Milan and Hedge to keep working together.

" Ironically, Chadwick's battles with depression enabled him to better understand why Terry Bickers had left the band, and would eventually lead to a reconciliation between the two.

Wilson's beliefs on climate change have been likened to " a cigarette salesman denying that smoking causes cancer " by John Woods of Friends of the Earth, who added that " Ironically, if we listen to him Northern Ireland will suffer economically as we are left behind by smarter regions who are embracing the low carbon economy of the future ".

Ironically, some CCF members interpreted the Richards-Johnson position as a shift away from socialism, in that the " broad left " coalition they were advocating included left-leaning members of the Liberal Party.

Ironically perhaps the red phone box on the left is to the traditional British design.

Ironically, he left the year before Brian Waldron was appointed the club's CEO.