Sentences with phrase «as a schoolboy»

Born in Romford, London, Tony grew up in Dagenham, signing for Arsenal as a schoolboy in 1980.

«From joining as a schoolboy at 14, to signing my first professional contract at 17 and then making my first - team debut in the same year, to then being part of the transformation and evolution of this great football club, has inspired me to keep striving to be the very best I can be.

History did not come to an end, and as every schoolboy knows — will continue to run its course.»

However, it will likely take a decent offer to pry him away from the club he joined as a schoolboy and went on to captain.

Born in Derry on 6th February 1989, Cathcart was spotted by Manchester United scouts and joined their academy as a schoolboy.

As a schoolboy classicist, brightest of his peers, he graded ancient authors as if competitors with him for academic prizes: Thucydides «desperately dull and tedious,» Plato and Horace «charming,» Homer a «giant.»

His academic career was successful far beyond anything he could have imagined as a schoolboy or seaman.

Alba, of course, now finds himself back at Barcelona, where he began his career as a schoolboy and Cazorla, for his part, turned down a move to Real Madrid four years ago.

Colorado State sophomore Steve Bartalo, the WAC's leading rusher last fall with 1,113 yards in 10 games, was passed over largely because of his 5» 9», 185 - pound dimensions as a schoolboy quarterback.

Sead represented Germany as a schoolboy, but elected to play for his parents» homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina at senior level.

David played for Shelbourne as a schoolboy and signed for Arsenal as an apprentice in 1973.

Francis Jeffers signed for Everton as a schoolboy, making his debut as a 16 - year - old in a 2 - 0 defeat away to Manchester United in 1997.

Sterling himself had something of a down year after exploding onto the scene as a schoolboy; he found himself used in a number of positions over the course of the year and only found his best form in fits and spurts but, when focused and on top of his game, he can be unstoppable in his rampages along the right flank.

I remember as a schoolboy sitting next to him at an exhibition in Earls Court, though all I can recall him saying, to a team - mate sat beside him, was, «I've got a bloody stomach ache.»

Alexander attended Park Mains High School in Erskine, also in Renfrewshire, from where he joined the Labour Party as a schoolboy in 1982.

He says that as a schoolboy growing up in Newport in the 1980s, he was inspired by her as Prime Minister.

He said he had stopped reciting the pledge as a schoolboy, but until Wednesday had usually stood out of deference.

10.30 am update from PA: «Tory leader David Cameron today admitted he had done things in his past he «should not have done and regretted» over allegations he smoked cannabis as a schoolboy at Eton.

The famed biologist still gets giddy as a schoolboy when he encounters ants that can consume a live python, or describes how to hypnotize a dragonfly.

«I was intrigued by computing from the start,» says Schürmann, who got his first contact with computers through volunteer classes as a schoolboy.

Don't let the phrase «shorts suit» inadvertently hurtle you back to your days as a schoolboy in short pants.

Four old friends conclude a pub crawl they started as schoolboys in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's hilarious third film, writes Philip French

Still, Eastwood's attempts to establish these characters a decade earlier as schoolboys are even more vacuous.

What would have happened to Leon Vitali if as a schoolboy he had gone to see that other 1968 hit sci - fi movie, Barbarella rather than Kubrick's 2001?

I made my first pilgrimage there as a schoolboy to while away an afternoon watching the Mad Max trilogy.

Describing himself as a lazy pupil with bad handwriting, Professor Hawking [below, far left as a schoolboy] said the maths teacher helped change this by making classes lively and exciting.

He shares how he was introduced to Shakespeare as a schoolboy, and why he is so passionate about helping young people to study and enjoy Shakespeare's unparalleled, literary legacy.

Kerouac, Steinbeck — I well remember reading their road novels as a schoolboy — and, in a more extracurricular vein, Brock Yates of «Cannonball Run» fame.

The author began his study of Latin as a schoolboy in London, studied ancient history at Oxford University and worked as a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist.

For a year or two your hands are nicked and scraped as a schoolboy's knee.

What role does education play in the characters» lives, from Ronald's pride when Monica is admitted to Oxford to the struggles Ben and Tommy face as schoolboys?

Signed as a schoolboy at the age of 14, Beckham's career journey is illustrated in this exhibition and includes some of his medals and commemorative shirts.

I've a vague recollection of playing the Space Hulk board game as a schoolboy, but honestly don't remember any details.

This is what he used to do as a schoolboy and a student: get the overnight bus down to London from Glasgow, where he grew up (or Edinburgh, where he went to art school), and go to the Tate to see the Turners and Blakes, always with «a spaced - out feeling — I was always exhausted from not having slept, but somehow elated».

Years later he recalled as a schoolboy visiting the local art gallery in Kirkcaldy and seeing 12 colourful still - lifes by Peploe.

His new show is at Plymouth, where he studied as a schoolboy before going on to Somerset College of Art.

But then of course he wouldn't have been portrayed as a schoolboy at prayer.

City litigator Patrick Raggett recounts the turmoil and ultimate vindication he faced in pursuing a damages claim against the Catholic Church for abuse suffered as a schoolboy

In today's New York Times there's a really good Op - Ed piece, «Clause and Effect» by Adam Freedman, that takes us through the role that these and other commas might play, and is, I'm fairly certain, the only journalistic piece I've ever read that brings up the Latin ablative absolute, one of the banes of my existence as a schoolboy.

History did not come to an end, and, as every schoolboy knows, it will continue to run its course.

Defender Tyias Browning has been associated with Everton for more than a decade since joining the Club's Academy as a schoolboy.

For me, it all started with a love of birds of prey: as a schoolboy in rural Wales I kept and bred common kestrels in my garden.

The trouble with him as a schoolboy pitcher was that we couldn't find anyone who could catch him.

As a schoolboy and junior he represented Scotland.

today that ideologically hegemonic «centre ground» constantly reinforced by the entire mass media, is massively to the Right of that earlier post war consensus narrative (and quite contrary to all the mixed economy, Keynsian, economic assumptions I was taught as «true» as schoolboy in A level Economics in the 1960's).

The Liberal Democrat leader's revealing answers to questions put by politics.co.uk show him as a schoolboy activist and underline his European grounding.

He was editor of the New Statesman in the 1970s when I started subscribing to it as a schoolboy.

A couple of years ago, Nick Clegg confessed to having «torched two greenhouses of cacti» as a schoolboy.