Sentences with phrase «football games of old»

According to a recent PlayStation blog post, the game is inspired by «two - minute drill arcade football games of old, with primitives sliding around a bare field, falling over each other to chase down a ball.»

According to a recent PlayStation blog post, the game is inspired by «two - minute drill arcade football games of old, with primitives sliding around a bare field, falling over each other to chase down a ball.»

Not exact matches

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

But instead of priest, they are the good old boys protecting thier beloved football game instead of protecting little boys.

Even though I had no idea what made a good football game back then (us kids basically just loved having a reason to stay up late, drink soda, eat deliciousness off the grill and goof off, never actually watching much of the game,) I found myself genuinely interested as I got older.

You often hear the old football cliche that managers and players learn more from a defeat or a tough game than an easy win and if this is the case then Chambers should have learned a hell of a lot on Monday.

Jack Pitt - Brooke writes: «When the two managers meet Wenger will see something of his younger self in the 45 - year - old furiously trying to impose his futuristic football vision onto the English game.

Guys it's the same old same old Ozil awful and stays on for 90 mins, wenger lat subs and nothing different Mert not good enough Ozil sell him and buy a top DM something isn't right with him I would forgive players if they gave 100 % not all of them do Man utd are poor and they are above us Everyone knows our problems, wenger did us proud but now it's time for a change, and if you don't want Europa football next year I suggest you make your feelings known at the next few games

The good old game of touch, with rules or without, provides football fun for everyone without the spills and skills demanded by the regular game

Thanks in good part to the opportunity FIFA gave us to host the games in 1994, we have become a nation of footballers, young and old.

The 42 year old has every reason to be enjoying his time at Celtic, the Glasgow side sit joint top of the Scottish Premiership, with a game in hand, and have Champions League football to enjoy.

Fancy - free and full of fanfare, football music fills the air with its magnificent manifestations of a martial mania as old as the game itself

I'm going.Why wouldn't I?Ive been there before and know what to do and where not to go.Flights booked today and will sort hotel next week.Its a game of football FFS.If Big Bonking Boris had kept his oversized gob shut then the issues would not be anywhere near as bad as they now appear.Anyway if some 7 foot Russian Ultra tries to intimidate me I will just simply stick TWO pencils up my nostrils and say the Word WIBBLE.They will then think I'm mad beyond belief and go attack a 78 year old Granny.Works every time.WIBBLE

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

It sometimes seems as though the old football saying that there are no easy games is bit of a cliche, especially for Arsenal fans in recent years.

The latest installment of football's oldest rivalry takes center stage as the lone Christmas Day game.

The weekend's European final will mark the 22 - year - old's biggest game of his career and will be looking to showcase his talents on the biggest platform in club football.

The 59 - year - old has earned plenty of praise this season, not only for the fact that Napoli continue to push defending Serie A champions Juventus in the title race, as they trail them by four points with seven games remaining, but more so because of the style of football that he has implemented at the San Paolo.

Recently he went to a high school football game in Huntington, W. Va. «Nobody will know me here,» he said happily to a friend, a little bit of the old hell - raiser's spirit in his voice.

«Shrovetide football is called a friendly game,» said Mark Heath, one of the dozens of bobbies on hand for this year's festivities, «but it's really about settling old scores.»

The 27 - year - old has played every single minute of league football in Tottenham's title charge, and Spurs have only conceded more than one goal in four of their 31 top - flight games in the 2015 - 16 season.

Arsenal MUST be disciplined and maintain organizational team discipline in all aspects of their game as soon as they stepped on the Old Traford football playing pitch for the 90 ′ + of the entirety of playing the game.

But then Arsenal proved the old adage of football being a game of two halves.

Assuming that Wenger does agree that the 26 - year old forward who has settled right in to English football and scored 14 Premier League goals in his first season at this level at a rate of better than a goal every other game, would actually improve the goal shy Arsenal attack, there would still be a few obstacles in the way of Arsenal signing him.

Indeed, it is perhaps one of the defining games of its time: the pinnacle of Old Football; the capstone of Madrid's obsession with Europe (and Europe's obsession with Madrid); the peak of the careers of some of the greatest players of all time.

Wenger out, out, out!Sell the entire team, what a bunch of mediocre players!Kick them all out!What a digrageful team, what an inept and out of ideas manager.The stand was full of the Arsenal's board of directors - I think they see it all and had enough - replace that old fart at any cost!We are only going backward... the only thing we had left in the last 10 years (even if no trophirs) was de beautiful game - now we don't even have that anymore.An ugly team with an ugly style.If you can call that rubish football a «style»....

The Gunners are chasing the 22 - year - old despite the good form of current striker Olivier Giroud, who has 17 goals in 27 appearances this season, whilst Morata has netted just 12 times in 35 games for the Old Lady of Italian footbaold despite the good form of current striker Olivier Giroud, who has 17 goals in 27 appearances this season, whilst Morata has netted just 12 times in 35 games for the Old Lady of Italian footbaOld Lady of Italian football.

Arsenal's edgy away win in the Premier League today was the epitome of that old saying that football is a game of two halves.

Jabrill Peppers reminds us that the old NCAA Football video games are part of why he's at Michigan.

Depressed I am just sick of it pass pass pass and no end product same old same old and when losing a game I don't take off ur goal scorer even for half a chance and bellerin is waste space should been mertsacker in def and kolisinic lab and ox rwb and how we miss cazorla, one free and one striker and no champions league football oh how we're trying very hard get bk in haha joke of board ambition is sad we need atleast 2 players van diik and nzonzi would give us steel over and out need?

What is Per Mert still doing at arsenal, don't they say, the older you get, the slower you become in the game of football?

Related: Matt Barkley photographed wearing sling following UCLA game Related: Johnathan Franklin gives fans throat slash gesture Related: Johnny Football is a terrible kicker Related: Stanford beats Oregon thanks to upright; Kansas State destroyed by Baylor Related: LSU administrator posts list of teams slackers for NFL scouts Related: Maryland and Rutgers in talks to join Big Ten Related: Lee Corso to 5 - year - old, «Not so fast, midget» Related: Virginia Tech sports horrible uniforms / helmet combo against BC Related: Fitzgerald Toussaint with ugly leg injury against Iowa Related: USC scores fat guy touchdown against UCLA

Related: Matt Barkley photographed wearing sling following UCLA game Related: Johnathan Franklin gives fans throat slashing gesture Related: Johnny Football is a terrible kicker Related: LSU administrator posts list of teams slackers for NFL scouts Related: Stanford beats Oregon thanks to upright; Kansas State destroyed by Baylor Related: Lee Corso to 5 - year - old, «Not so fast, midget» Related: Virginia Tech sports horrible uniforms / helmet combo against BC Related: Fitzgerald Toussaint with ugly leg injury against Iowa Related: USC scores fat guy touchdown against UCLA

Previously: Minnesota WR leaves team and the bashes head coach Jerry Kill Previously: Johnathan Franklin gives fans throat slash gesture Previously: Lane Kiffin confirms Matt Barkley out for Notre Dame game Previously: Johnny Football is a terrible kicker Previously: Stanford beats Oregon thanks to upright; Kansas State destroyed by Baylor Previously: LSU administrator posts list of teams slackers for NFL scouts Previously: Maryland and Rutgers in talks to join Big Ten Previously: Lee Corso to 5 - year - old, «Not so fast, midget» Previously: Virginia Tech sports horrible uniforms / helmet combo against BC Previously: Fitzgerald Toussaint with ugly leg injury against Iowa Previously: USC scores fat guy touchdown against UCLA

Theo Walcott may have scored 20 goals for Arsenal last season, but in this campaign he can't buy a League game from Arsene Wenger and the rumours are that the 28 year old is desperate to move in January to seek first team football to try and get a good enough run to impress the England manager Gareth Southgate ahead of the World Cup Finals in Russia this summer.

It came down to the last game of the campaign for the 28 - year - old, and he delivered a hat - trick against Frosinone with a stunning third goal to seal the record and his place in Italian football folklore.

We are now hearing from the football media that the 34 - year old will now hang up his international boots instead of heading to Rio for the Olympic games.

I may have been only nine years old when Tecmo Bowl came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, but I knew with every bit of real - world knowledge I had gained to that point in life that it was the most realistic football game that would ever be created by mankind.

The 20 year - old Welshman didn't achieve the first team football he needed at Nottingham Forest when on loan there earlier in the season because of game cancellations, and could be available on loan.

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.

Manager Arsene Wenger has started the 23 - year - old in all thirteen league games in 2015 with the Frenchman clocking up an impressive 1,166 minutes of football.

Fifth tier Wrexham, one of the oldest professional football clubs in the world, were taken to a replay and then beaten by Stamford AFC, who come from a small town in the East Midlands and play their league games a whole three tiers lower.

Then the rank and file fought hard for free agency, a move that old - time football executives said would be a stake in the heart of the game.

There is a very old football cliche that you can only beat what is put in front of you, but when you consider that Arsenal's opponents yesterday had made TEN changes from the Hull side that played Everton on New Years Day, should we really be so pleased that the Gunners only managed to kill off the game in the 82nd minute?

And while a lot of Arsenal fans and football pundits have been on the 25 - year old's back and have labelled him a flop, I think we have really missed him since he picked up his knee injury in the Chelsea game, because he was just starting to hit form and is like the oil in the Arsenal machine.

But Hawkeye fandom was my birthright, safely secured for me until I was old enough to actually pay attention to football and basketball games... which fortunately happened in 1981, The Sacred Year of Rebirth!

love your articles galen this just proves the sheer stupidity and arrogance of our manager what are players like ozil and giroud still doing at arsenal after their first season ozil should probably be sold back to shalke in a soft league and who knows he might play his best football and it might help in his national team form cazorla is a good player but not world class he can not be classified on the same level against players like silva iniesta and the old arsenal fabregas sanchez is also good but he needs to add more to his game for him to be put on the same level with world beaters like suarez neymar and bale koscienly is also good but he has too many injury troubles coquelin is a class player but he is not world class he is good technically but not a dominant midfielder like schneiderlin and fernandinho as for cech he is there among the best keepers and he is the only positive in this arsenal team.Needs to work on his distribution though the back four is solid but has alot of light weights strong and powerful foward might find it easy

Football, is one of the oldest games in the world, and has taken many guises over the years.

The 31 - year - old has played in Norwich's past two games but regular first team football has not been guaranteed to him by manager Chris Hughton, and with question marks hanging over his head the Republic of Ireland international could be set to move on with the promise of more playing time in the West Midlands.

Right now, all we've got are the memories and old copies of the last game — NCAA Football 14 — often collecting dust on our shelves.