1.   When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said.

2.   No one likes to be on the losing side.

3.   As soon as you start to talk about never having played on a losing side, it is tempting fate.

4.   Circumscribed his enthusiasm so as not to make the losing side feel worse.

5.   To place foreign affairs in the hands of a man whose sympathies lay with the losing side seemed both out of character for Franco and politically inept.

6.   He was on the losing side with Everton three times twice against Liverpool and he is determined to get his hands on the trophy this time.

7.   For once, it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee.

8.   Also on the losing side were retail stocks.

9.   America was in the company, on the losing side, of Iraq, Libya, Qatar, Yemen, China and Israel.

10.   And it stretches democracy as far as it can be stretched in deference to the strongly held views of the losing side of an argument.