Sentences with phrase «fact opening the season»

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The decision to open up its online Sportsnet comes as the Toronto Blue Jays begin a promising season, but also as Rogers's revenue is suffering from the fact that no Canadian team has qualified for the National Hockey League playoffs.

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

«I think at the start of the season, the fact that I used him in defensive positions maybe made him realise that there's no opening where he dreams to play but there could be an opening where he doesn't dream to play.

In fact, our entire season this year is one big «moment of truth», considering this is such an open season (it's almost new year and Leicester are top of league!!!!) and the condition for us to win the league are more in our favor than before.

Last Season when we did, we rarely failed to get 3 points, in fact, if I remember rightly, only the opening game did we forfeit a lead and lose.

The facts have been there staring them in the face season after season after season, I just hope that the performance against West Ham will open some people's eyes.

Hopefully the fact that we suffered a surprise defeat at home to Swansea City last season, a match that Wenger has suggested ended our hopes of winning the title, will ensure that the players do not take this match for granted, even though the Welsh club have only taken a single point since the opening day.

Wenger was always open in the fact that he didn't think Cazorla would be fully ready come start of the season, and he definitely didn't look anywhere near he's usual sharpness against Leicester.

The bullpen shake - up represented the bulk of the team's off - season player moves, which is odd when you consider Baltimore's poor record, funereal clubhouse and the fact that the front office's top personnel man, vice president of baseball operations Syd Thrift, is a legendary lover of the open market.

I hope Leicester winning the league will open Wenger's eyes and the fact that Top class managers coming into the league next season will also make Wenger ready...

The loss follows trends of previous seasons, in which have seen Arsenal dramatically struggle on the opening days of respective Premier League campaigns, possibly due to the fact that Wenger never seems prepared for them.

The fact that the reported buy - out clause for Krychowiak is just # 21.26 m it makes you wonder why Wenger didn't make his move as soon as the transfer window opened — if our scouts had been watching him for the whole of last season.

In fact, it's entirely possible that Brady isn't suspended for a single game — especially when you consider that the Pittsburgh / New England matchup is the opening game of the NFL season.

In fact, I would be willing to bet # 20 that Wenger will stay and both Ramsey and Giroud will play in the opening game of next season (bar injury to either).

With 15 strikes to his name, Ronaldo has registered more goals in the opening eight rounds of the season than any other player in La Liga history, a feat all the more remarkable for the fact that he missed one of those games — a 4 - 2 defeat against Real Sociedad.

The fact that they are preparing to face an Arsenal team that is unbeaten in the League since the opening day of the season doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest!

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has named Per Mertesacker as their club's manager for the new season, despite the fact that he will miss the opening five months of the campaign.

O.T > After watching Allegri's Juventus last night, i really think he is the right man to replace Arsene and i think if the board hasn't contacted that man yet, then they must be really stupid or something and have no ambitions, I mean the guy ticks all the boxes... he selects his team based on his opponents and he surely knows how to get his tactics right and he even decided to drop Cuadrado who is one of there best players this season and played Barzagli at right back to move Dani Alves forward, he knew they can't be too open given the fact that kheidera was suspended even after the match he called Pjanic out and told him he wasn't impressed with his body language after missing a pass and that he should calm down.

It's the fans that keep sacrificing because this team can't get their head out of their own ass... please give me some examples when a top club ever let their best player leave for free at the end of a season... Wenger needs to go to PSG and get some money and talent for Sanchez so that we can end this nonsense once and for all... then he needs to publicly apologize for the way in which they handled the whole situation... if they allow Sanchez to go for free there is no way this club, under the tutelage of Kroenke and Wenger, will ever layout the necessary coin to replace such a talented player, especially considering that Wenger will be a lame - duck manager once again in the final year of his contract and we know how well that went last year... open your eyes people, Wenger has spoken publicly about how he hopes that the next manager can take this club to the next level... WHAT?!?... he then went on to speak about leaving them in the perfect position to be successful, which is one of the reasons why several pundits felt Wenger would leave after last season based on the financials and the fact that so many players had only one year left on their respective contracts... who says this shit??? If you believe you're leaving things in the best possible shape for your potential successor to achieve greatness it raises a couple of serious questions: Why can't you take things to the next level if everything is as great as you say?

Jack Wilshere is claimed to have agreed to join Crystal Palace on loan until the end of the season, but the fact all betting markets remain open on the Arsenal man's supposed move casts doubt on that.

Aside from the fact that he's led the club to top spot in the La Liga table with 10 wins in 11 games so far this season to open up a four - point lead over their nearest rivals, they also lead the way in Group D in the Champions League with a similarly comfortable buffer over the opposition.

In fact the England striker has created 21 goal scoring opportunities so far this season, 11 of which have come in open play.

Almost half the season has gone and there are some very interesting facts that are out in the open in the football world.

KEY FACT: Arsenal have won ten games in - a-row against Leicester MATCH ODDS: Arsenal 4/9 Draw 13/4 Leicester 5/1 ANDY SAYS: I think Arsenal will open up their season with a win, they will be too good for Leicester — 2 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think a full strength Leicester could have taken something, but Arsenal to win this — 2 - 0 LADBROKES PICK: Both teams to score in second half @ 15/8 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Alexandre Lacazette could be in line for a very good season — so at # 3.78 could be something of a bargain.

Adding to the dynamic was the fact this was the first time Coutinho, Firmino, Salah and Sadio Mane had started a game together this season and their threat occupied the visitors, who touched the ball just once in the Liverpool area during the opening half.

However she will be cheered by the fact that each of the opening grands prix could have been won by either Ferrari or Mercedes, so small are the margins, when many Ferrari fans were predicting it would be another season of hopes dashed.

In fact when he made his first start of the season against Crystal Palace, the team had managed a meagre 13 points from the opening ten games and were ninth on the table.

In fact, Liverpool actually, for about the first time this season, rode their luck to record a huge win as not only was Javier Mascherano's opening goal deflected into the Everton goal but Everton also had two goals ruled out for offside, rightly ruled out it must be said.

The fact is there won't be as many open starting spots available next season, as opposed to this season.

For starters, Mick McCarthy hasn't seen his side win back - to - back matches in the league all season, and that's down to the fact they've only won three of their opening fifteen league games.

The fact that the club had just one senior striker available for the opening game of the season has probably prompted such action, with Tottenham clearly struggling in front of goal in their 2 - 1 defeat to Newcastle on Saturday evening.

In fact, two of the three goals he has scored for Zenit so far are spectacular, in the opening game of the season against SKA Khabarovsk and against Spartak Moscow.

It has long been an open secret that Pep Guardiola would be joining City next season (for the habitual three years), but for them to announce the fact just days after city had thrashed Aston Villa — even without Sergio Aguero — and marched into the next round of the FA Cup, seems a bit tactless.

All three of Bolton's home matches thus far have all ended in stalemate, with Fulham, Birmingham City and more recently Manchester United all holding Owen Coyle's side, while Stoke have only drawn one of their opening seven matches but they fact they've hit a resurgent patch of form, combined with Bolton's lack of clean sheets this season, leads be to believe that Stoke are at least good for a share of the spoils.

«It has become open season for critics to say whatever they like about us based on speculation and hearsay,» said the acting CEO Alexander Tayler, «conjecture and rumor is being portrayed as fact which is damaging and unfair to the company, its employees, and its clients.

2018-04-07 17:24 Award Season darling La La Land opens with a song called «Another Day Of Sun,» and it's funny, because it's kinda directly making fun of the fact Ladyboys Land - Free Ladyboy Movies in Categorized Collection.

«You should always be open to the possibilities of finding a relationship and not worry about the fact that it's cuffing season.»

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

BASIC FACTS: «new season / new address» opens Sat from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Drawing Room, 66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY.

BASIC FACTS: The Rites of Spring Season Opening will be held tomorrow (April 20) from 2 to 5 p.m..

However, the fact that polar bears in the Chukchi Sea and Southern Davis Strait are thriving despite dramatic declines in summer sea ice (aka an extended open - water season), proves my point and disproves their premise.

@Natalie — Many thx but our caravan sites even in general are NOT open through the entire 12m of a year, many in actual fact taking from Christmas break > Easter off when they close their sites down making it at best a 9 month season not much use to a TH or a resident tiny homes owner is it Let me say that both Scotland & The UK are superb for many thinks but sunshine & year round camping have yet to reach here