Sentences with phrase «big scalp»

We have upped our game before when our top for push came under threat but this time its different, this time we are taking big scalps and we are doing it with a battling quality..

Cuomo already netted one big scalp in his ongoing pay - to - play pension fund probe this month when former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty to a felony charge of public corruption (his second since 2007).

City have Juve mid-week, in between Palace away and West Ham with two big scalps already.

Claiming their first big scalp.

We all love the magic of the early rounds of the FA Cup and we can expect to see some giant - killing, but let's hope that Arsenal are not the biggest scalp from this weekend's games!

I don't believe we will take them lightly because they already came after battles where they took some big scalps.

Villa have nothing to lose and we're a big scalp, not over til fat lady bracewell sings.

In a way it might help us that Burnley have claimed some big scalps this season, including a draw with Tottenham last week.

They will also love to take a big scalp in their home ground.

Our aim must be to take 24 points from our remaining games which will include 2 big scalps, we have already one monkey off our backs (beating United) lets get another (Chelsea at home).

Watford have already taken some big scalps this season, including Liverpool and West Ham, and they have managed creditable draws with the likes of Chelsea and Everton, so this is no time to be rotating too heavily and playing a second string Arsenal side, so I am glad to hear that the boss is not going to.

There is always a new manager effect, positive or negative, but generally a big scalp is taken early.

Not many people called it, and it was a big scalp for Till.

But the flip side of Man City, Liverpool and Man United struggling has been the likes of Leicester and Watford, as these two newly promoted sides have claimed a number of big scalps and find themselves in top spot and seventh.

Given Van Gaal's difficulties of late, it's hard not to think that Allardyce eyes a similar outcome at this fixture and United fans are probably similarly apprehensive that another big scalp may be claimed.

Arguably the biggest scalp of them all were the Netherlands, missing out on qualification by goal -LSB-...]

The FA Cup is a different experience to the league games and a fired up lower league team will always be looking for a big scalp.

The big scalp came on March 9 when the mighty Manchester City were made to eat humble pie at the Etihad Stadium.

The Toffees have had a little morale boost, and they'll be hoping to claim a big scalp this weekend to aid their European push.

Hamburg have won their last two at home and I think they're certainly worth a punt at 23/10 with Betfair to claim a big scalp.

I think that whilst no side sets out to lose, our team this evening knowing they have the buffer of this game not meaning anything, whilst Basel will have the carrot of a big scalp, delighting the home fans and also the Europa League, so I think this points towards a victory on their point.

Newcastle are on a red hot form and target the biggest scalp of the season when they welcome Arsenal for Sunday's Premier League action.

Unlike in previous years, most of those victories have been against weaker sides, with no big scalps of note.

This year the biggest scalp from the dodgy expenses claims MPs made in the noughties was Denis MacShane, the former Europe minister, who got six months behind bars for his deliberately fraudulent claims.

But there were no big scalps this year, no ministerial resignations and little by way of actual results.

This was undoubtedly the biggest scandal of the year not to have claimed a big scalp.

«The bigger the scalp, the bigger the headlines.»

The news, which was reported by the Evening Standard, causes confusion among campaigners, who had thought for a moment that they may have secured their biggest scalp so far.

A difficult night for the SNP delivered one of the biggest scalps, with the party's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, losing his seat in Moray.

The shadow chancellor has lost his seat in the biggest scalp of this general election.

Maria Eagle was the biggest scalp, being moved from her job as shadow defence secretary to the Culture, Media and Sport brief.

Their biggest scalp could be Jahangir Akhtar, deputy leader of the council: I saw fewer crosses next to his name than his Ukip rival in the Rotherham West ward.