Sentences with phrase «awful run of»

Is it because of the humour and humanity of LVG, the awful run of injuries, the difficulty of changing from the SAF old guard to a new MU filled with exciting attacking intent (that is a joke) or just that it is an unpleasant trait to laugh at those who are going through tough times?

It's been an awful run of home fixtures if you base them on the level of difficulty, but as was said to me yesterday, it really does feel like a privilege to be able to compete with the country's top teams in league games.

The hosts come into this game in an awful run of form.

Can they turn that around at Wembley, or will their awful run of form at this ground hurt Spurs?

That statement obviously begs the question as to why he didn't change to this system earlier when we were going through our awful run of form, but there is no point in talking about «what ifs» after the event.

The Scot was finally sacked on Wednesday after an awful run of form this season, with ex-Tottenham Hotspur boss Tim Sherwood among the favourites to come in and replace him.

But they fought their way through to take the points and that should have regained a little confidence after an awful run of form away from the Emirates.

Fans will appreciate Ferdinand's honesty, and there's certainly plenty for Wenger to think about between now and the end of the season as his side go through an awful run of form.

So Arsene Wenger has been sticking to his new formation since Arsenal's awful run of 5 defeats in 8 games and it seemed to have given the team some new confidence until last weeks devastating defeat to Tottenham, but it is highly likely that Wenger will continue with the same setup this afternoon.

That was simply not the case, with the visitors showing true grit and character to dismiss their awful run of form to impress in North - London, and the Middlesbrough boss is very happy with the display his side put in.

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«The reason why we went with the upper tier, especially the «M» tier, is we think we can learn an awful lot more with that clientele,» said Ian Smith, Chief Executive Officer of BMW Group Financial Services in the Americas, which is running the pilot.

Still, our stumble in the recent cycle, though far smaller than what the market itself experienced in 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009, was quite awful in relative terms, as the speculation encouraged in this half - cycle by Fed - induced yield seeking has seen no equal outside of the run to the 1929 and 2000 peaks.

Inspired after a string of awful - to - middling governors won with less than 50 per cent support, a Maine ballot measure will ask voters to endorse ranked - ballot voting and instant run - offs — one of the electoral alternatives the Trudeau government is considering.

There are an awful lot of former GS bankers running around Washington, but the fact that Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and his colleagues actually allowed a bet on rising gas prices anywhere makes us wonder.

What an awful, shallow and fearful life you must live, you have to be so vigilant so that you do not run afoul of your god who will surely punish you with some terrible affliction.

If you were playing on a Sunday morning and got caught out by that goal you would be steaming 3 players v 1 and not one players actually picked him up, so he turns and runs 60 yards Massive schoolboy error And why is the team virtually the same barring forced changes What's the point of having a squad WENGER OUT and you will hear this again and again One difference in the teams, they play as a team Ramsey and Alexis awful

If the running game is awful like last season and the OL is just average like it appears to be at best, then the QB will struggle regardless of who it is

Into his first season as United boss, Louis van Gaal can make a major statement here if his side condemn the visitors to yet another defeat in this awful recent run of theirs which has seen the title and even an automatic Champions League spot slip away from them.

His skillset of quickness, athleticism, and shooting range makes him an ideal PnR big (both diving and popping), and UofA's awful guards and terrible coach either can't or won't run PnR.

«They had an awful start against West Ham but all of a sudden they have got a pretty good run of games going.»

With these kind of fixtures, they will lose an awful lot of points in the run in..

Arsenal players seem to run hot and cold an awful lot, one minute they are world beaters next minute (or game) you would think it was their first game of football.

After the awful recent run of results had seen Arsenal win just three times and lose six, crashing out of the Champions League and slipping out of the Premier League's top four places, Arsene Wenger will have been hoping for a bit of help from elsewhere this weekend.

The team was horrible (3 - 13), the offense and defense were both horrible (30th and 29th in points, respectively), the running game was awful, but Josh McCown had the third best season of his career (93.3 passer rating), Gary Barnidge (TE) and Travis Benjamin (WR) had the best year of their careers, rookie third rounder Duke Johnson had a superb season catching passes out of the backfield, and Johnny Manzeil's passer rating almost doubled from his rookie season to a respectable, for a sophomore season, 79.4.

The problem for Baer is that most of the fair weather / front running fans that the team depends on to buy tickets and merchandise are going to be gone if the Giants continue to be awful and boring.

Should I applaud Wenger's awful record against tough opposition or shall I just rave about how good he is when we go on a run of winning games against the likes of Villa, Middlesbrough, Brighton and Leicester?

Todays desicion - making was just awful, passing the ball the completely other way of where the players made good runs etc..

Seriously though, that Tolzien run was the highlight of that game: first game I ever took my son to, and I will take away two memories: (1) the Tolzien run, happened right in front of us (our seats were about 10 yards into the end zone) and (2) not only was it God - awful cold that day, but they decided to give us our money's worth by playing a full extra quarter.

Vidal may feel he has recovered well, playing 28 games in Serie A this term, but given Arsenal's awful record with injuries, perhaps they run a real risk here in signing a player with a history of struggling to complete 90 minutes.

It was hardly surprising, though, that Woods, who had not booked four consecutive rounds since his awful outing at the Hero World Challenge in December and not in an official event since the British Open in July, ran out of gas down the stretch.

OG wont do well in the FA cup final if he starts, Villa will hold a high line against Arsenal they cant park the bus there defence is crap, for OG its simple he hasn't got the pace or strength, you need a man who can run at the defender not hold the ball up, because of Okore Giroud will have an awful time he faster and stronger i think if Giroud is on he will be man marked (Okore's bitch all game) if you don't believe me watch the training footage of him manhandling Benteke...... Not an easy task.

UConn's run game was awful last year, but of course it was.

Although I thought he looked awful playing for us, you could see some potential there, he just needed a run of games.

If I gave in and began negotiating baseball contracts through an agent, then I set a precedent that's going to bring awful pain to general managers for years to come, because every salary negotiation with every humpty - dumpty fourth - string catcher is going to run into months of dickering.

Our run in looks much more favourable, albeit the trip to Manchester City, although the Citizens have been awful of late, especially against the bigger teams, and we should not rule out an unlikely lunge up the table.

XI v XI (for the whole game hopefully) can produce some crazy results in the Cup, so Arsenal could break an awful run at Old Trafford, where they have lost 9 and drawn 1 of their last 10 visits.....

All the referees are appointed by PGMOL chief Mike Riley who also happens to come from West Yorkshire who's had more run ins with Arsene Wenger than the inefficient Anthony Taylor ever has, so it was obvious to me that we we're going to get one of the awful six.

The leaders have now conceded in 11 straight league games, which is an awful run for a side of their stature.

Our penalties were laughable, and Lee Mason's awful performance added to the frustration, but our problems run infinitely deeper than shit spot - kicks and the dubious decisions of match officials.

Arsenal came out of that awful run, as you will recall, through the simple expedient of changing the format of the defence and going to five at the back.

Matt: Making any kind of prediction publically, you always run the risk of getting egg on your face — and certainly Preston and Sheffield Utd were pretty awful last night.

He yells at the linesman but to be fair, the pass he recieved prior to the challenge was awful and wasted a gigantic opportunity for Rooney to run into space and clear of the last man.

Arsenal truly has a squad of fighters that have reacted before in the first leg and gone on a great run to bring us to fourth... Now that we underwent another awful spell on the full back to the level of calling it a crisis, we found ourselves losing game after another; hopefully all of that is behind us with the return of the width in Arsenal's play, and the hunger and drive demonstrated in a team full of life and youth, and the ability to REACT and fight back.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

The timing and the optics of making a 2017 bid, however, are awful: He would need to go from investigating de Blasio to running against him within weeks, something that smacks of unseemly conflict of interest.

Suggesting that their status is subject to the results of the negotiations adds to current uncertainty, which is being exploited by extremists running awful «go home» campaigns.»

Its too bad we couldn't have gotten someone better than Lazio to run then we never would have to deal with this awful joke of a Republican ticket.

Former governor David Paterson appointed Ward in 2008 to the executive directorship of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the labyrnthine and notoriously awful - to - manage snakepit of a bistate authority that oversees the trains, airports, bridges and ports that make New York City run.

«If these kids who are having in some cases dozens of seizures a day have to wait until the system is up and running, optimistically sometime in 2016, that's an awful lot of torture to these children,» said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, D - Manhattan.

The real explanation for the catastrophic demise of Quinn's campaign was neither misogyny nor homophobia but the fact that she was a bad candidate who ran an awful campaign and that Democratic primary voters were sick and tired of 12 years of Bloomberg and the mayoral candidate most closely associated with him.