be cheated of victory

"If I am cheated of victory and the people say nothing, then I leave the country," he said.

To this day, the players on that team and fans think that the Americans were cheated of victory when the final three seconds were replayed twice.

If he was cheated of victory, he told reporters on another occasion, "we won't return to war, but we won't recognize the result."

Nonetheless, bitterness still remains amongst the Leeds fans, due to their perception of being cheated of victory and the European Cup.

Significantly, however, while American observers were unanimous in their claim that Heenan had been cheated of victory, not all British witnesses would agree that Sayers had been on top.

In 1986, after his party claimed it had been cheated of victory in gubernatorial voting in the state of Chihuahua, party memnbers blocked highways and bridges leading to the United States.

They charged that the Cambodian People's Party organized by the old Government - an orthodox Communist party until it nominally abandoned its dogma - had been cheated of victory by balloting irregularities.

An Irish committee said "the situation in Ethiopia had not been helped by inaccurate leaks from the EU election monitoring body which led the opposition to wrongly believe they had been cheated of victory."

The referee finally declared a draw, but hostilities continued for some weeks outside the ring, with the American camp claiming that Heenan had been cheated of victory, and the British insisting that Sayers had been on top.

Speaking at the post-fight press conference, Marquez, who lifted his arms in triumph after the fight ended, said he was bitterly disappointed with the outcome after firmly believing he had been cheated of victory in his two previous meetings with Pacquiao.