Sentences with phrase «against football clubs»

Is it supposed to be some compare and contrast statement to hold up against football clubs that are not businesses and where owners don't dictate, like say.......

I remember playing for the cricket club against the football club one Boxing Day in the 80s and my great mate was managing us.

Not exact matches

He made his AFL debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 7, 2002 against Essendon.

When Arsenal were up against the German club Borussia Dortmund a few years ago their manager at the time was the current Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and he made the famous remark about their style of football being like heavy metal compared with Arsenal under Arsene Wenger being more like an orchestra.

Mr Wenger is consistent in that he invariably speaks nonsense particularly when it comes to the art of defending where «his» team have been deficient for the past decade.Had we kept a clean sheet against Man Utd and Southampton we would have picked up 6 points.Simple logic is something AW is now incapable of putting into practise and along with his poor recent record in the transfer market eg Xhaka and Mustafi the Board of Arsenal Football club should be making him accountable for the teams continued lack of success.Will this happen?

If Arsenal continue to play this modest style of football, like they did in the second half against Everton, like they did for the entire 90 minutes against Manchester City, I expect both Ozil and Sanchez to leave the club, their decision also looks a collective one.

He ushered in an era of revolutionary quick passing sexy football at the club in which we played attractive attacking football won titles and could compete against the best teams in the world.

we do nt have the midfielders to play that formation, only way it would work is if we played counter attacking football, and that goes against the quick possesion passing or (wan na be tiki taka) game the club wants to play and has bee playing since wenger took over.

There has been and will continue to be an awful lot of talk among Arsenal fans and in the football press about various behind the scenes goings on at our club, but right now the manager and the players need to focus on the next match and taking all three Premier League points from our home game against Manchester City.

Formed just after the First World War, the Club is now approaching its centenary year and played its first match against Cambridge in 1921, making it the longest running Australian football rivalry outside of Australia.

The 28 - year - old should have little trouble adapting to English football after showing what he can do in Germany, Spain and against the best clubs in Europe.

With only two current professional footballers in their ranks, including one without a club, the Gibraltar squad are likely to be up against it in their qualifying campaign for Euro 2016.

He is excited about the pressure of playing at Anfield and against the best teams that the Premier League has to offer, telling Liverpoolfc.com: «I'm very excited and so proud to be here and a member of Liverpool Football Club.

The two Football Clubs, having shed, alas temporarily, many tertiary duties, such as: merchandising, socialising, appelatising, and scandalising, assumed their primary purpose and played a match of football against one Football Clubs, having shed, alas temporarily, many tertiary duties, such as: merchandising, socialising, appelatising, and scandalising, assumed their primary purpose and played a match of football against one football against one another.

Buffon + BBC always got breached against top attacking talents be it in the national team or club football

The Reds have an away record that is quite similar to clubs fighting against relegation and the supporters have been forced to watch some pitiful football over the last few months, especially away from Anfield while they have also suffered some embarrassing losses like the defeats to Blackpool and Wolves at home.

It was reported Elneney turned down the opportunity to sign for Leicester before the season started as he did not wish to drop a level and was in love with Arsenal Football Club.We should be proud the club is held is held in such high esteem but the player and if he wishes to sign to be a squad player I absolutely welcome this contract extension.However Elneny is very basic in his overall displays.You have to ask if he has the ability to affect games, most especially against the clubs that are regarded as bigger than us (albeit at the moment.

There were protests against stan «Enos» kroenke during Colorado rapids football game even WWE did an article on him & slamming his mgrl skills in handling sports clubs

How to kill off a football fan like me, take his fav player who seem to be always the club captain, watch him go to rivals, watch him score against you, and then watch them win something you always wanted to win.

He has scored on his last two games for the Reds against Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea, but unfortunately those goals don't look like being enough to secure Champions League football for his boyhood club next season as they currently trail fourth placed Manchester United by six points with two games remaining but have an inferior goal difference.

They wrote, «Leicester City's Algerian international Riyad Mahrez, who is currently with the national team in Sidi Moussa to prepare for the double confrontation against Zambia for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, was authorised by the national coach Lucas Alcaraz and the Algerian Football Federation to make an express trip to Europe to formalise on Thursday his transfer to his new club.

That would go against the very identity of our football club.

The saga surrounding Arsenal Football Club continues on to yet another game week, with Wenger preparing ahead of an extremely tough test against Manchester City.

We will win our game against Bayern Munich, if our players can wake up from their slumber and play football the way it is meant to be played for a big club like Arsenal.

One man on that list is Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone, but for Balague, it would be a very risky decision despite the Argentine's class as it would go against everything that has been engrained into Arsenal as a football club over the last 20 years.

Considered by many as the greatest footballer that ever lived, his influence has obviously been greater felt by his club side where the Argentine dribbler has scored some truly crucial goals, including 21 against arch-rivals Real Madrid.

For Arsenal, a Club which seeks to play entertaining football both home and away against Clubs who are either fighting for survival or a place in the top 4 with a squad that because of under investment is short in terms of having the squad of quality players that you need to play the Wenger way — then something has to eventually suffer.

Arsenal fans last made their feelings known in the home game against Norwich, presenting banners that called for an end to Wenger's management of Arsenal Football Club.

Chelsea do nt know how to play possession, attacking football against good clubs.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.

With Giorgio Chiellin cruelly set to miss Juventus» Champions League final clash against Barcelona this weekend, here's a look back at other big names who for one reason or another sat out the biggest game in club football for their teams...

Barton, a veteran midfielder most recently with Burnley, was charged by the FA with making 1260 football bets over a decade, including 30 involving his own club, although he insisted he never wagered against his own club.

It appears that it has not taken long for representatives of Arsenal Football Club and The England international star Theo Walcott to come to an agreement over the terms of a new contract, even though the 26 - year old refused to shed any light on the situation after scoring the only goal of the game against Wolfsburg in the Emirates Cup today.

I've seen good and bad times over the years but the fiasco which currently surrounds our club and has rival fans laughing at us as it gets worse is as unacceptable to us as the football we played against Liverpool recently or Bayern Munich last season.

no i havent based it on just that game i have clearly said that he is a talented player i just do nt see it working out for him at this club and also 10 minutes or not if your a professional footballer you shouldnt lose the ball everytime you touch it he and sanogo looked great against benfica but who was better that fact is weve seen campbell have one good performance in an arsenal shirt in preseason he coudnt even be arsed to track back at everton and he had only just come on........

Score against the Angels of God football club?

To argue in anyway against that is siding with a footballer over a club.

But Chisora's promoter Frank Warren has confirmed that a fight against Haye would now go ahead at the home of West Ham football club in east London in July.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

The 11 players that started the final against Argentina came from 10 different clubs; this should, in theory, be a recipe for mutual incoherence and stodgy football.

wenger leaving this club would be a tremendous waste., im completely against the idea.anyone who downplays his relevance in world football is too busy focusing on why we do nt buy cavani an pogba in january lol.

Recognise the improvements and give AFC a break... and do have a bit more class than to rubbish Wenger and the club on the back of a defeat against consistent finalist in the Cl, the annual runaway winners of the Bundersleague, and arguably Europes top football team....

With everything that has been going on around Arsenal Football Club so far this season, apart from the good performance and result against Chelsea at Wembley that saw us lift another community Shield trophy, there has not been too much for the Arsenal fans to cheer about.

The 67 - year - old rarely speaks out against French football so this may come as a bit of a surprise for PSG fans considering the links he has had with the club.

If Arsene Wenger does manage to complete the transfer of Raheem Sterling to Arsenal this summer, it will be against the wishes of his current club Liverpool who are still hoping to convince the young England international to sign a new contract and to continue his football development under Brendan Rodgers at Anfield.

With Arsenal Football Club going against the wishes of a large section of the fanbase by handing another two year contract to our long serving but often under fire manager, it was always going to be imperative that Arsene Wenger was given a large transfer budget in order to change the pattern of recent seasons and challenge for the Premier League title.

If you're one of the richest & most supported football clubs in the world, then most games are against «Smaller» teams, so having somebody that can rip them apart is very useful for winning the league.

The image of the club in the minds of the players probably is — «yes a very good team which plays attractive football but not sure I can win titles with them» The only top team who we can win a battle against in terms of reputation and ambition right now is probably liverpool.

Yeah and look how he is treating US FANS at the end of his career.He just doesn't care.This is an intelligent man.He knows he no longer has the ability to Manage a top level Football Club.His tired and outdated methods have left us trailing the very clubs we used to dominate.Wenger has left us 5 years behind these Clubs.The younger modern manager know how to get results.Even against each other.Wenger can't even get a result away from home against teams in the relegation area.These teams used to FEAR playing us.Now they look forward to it.They know we will be playing with the same old tactics with plenty of the ball that gets us nowhere.No spine to the side.No passion in the side.No confidence from the players in the Manager.He should have been replaced 7 years ago