Back in 1989, when The Charlatans had their first hit with The Only One I Know, they were widely dismissed as baggy chancers. |
Defeats to City's fellow strugglers Torquay and Carlisle had seen Orient's stock fall from automatic promotion contenders to play-off chancers. |
And the insurgents are no national liberation force, but rather chancers taking potshots at what they consider to be cowardly occupiers. |
But in the early 1920s the National Socialist German Workers' Party was also a small group of malcontents and political chancers. |
Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers. |
No doubt the chancers behind this scam would later graduate to the kind of knavery witnessed at Kingston police court in the same month. |