Sentences with phrase «football glory years»

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Many locals and plenty of high school football «experts» see this year's team as the school's best hope of returning to that glory.

Take the final step and spend the warchest that our media friendly board members regularly boast of whenever the fans become restless, I am only me, Im not a skilled or qualified professional football manager BUT I am a lifelong fan of the club having supported Arsenal since the tender age of four and I have seen glory years and I have seen rubbish but what I have never ever seen in those 40 odd years is Arsenal Football club rise to the heights of the European Elite and I do feel that for a club that has been on the very brink and who have had to step back from it due to the worlds finances and the ever shifting world of the globafootball manager BUT I am a lifelong fan of the club having supported Arsenal since the tender age of four and I have seen glory years and I have seen rubbish but what I have never ever seen in those 40 odd years is Arsenal Football club rise to the heights of the European Elite and I do feel that for a club that has been on the very brink and who have had to step back from it due to the worlds finances and the ever shifting world of the globaFootball club rise to the heights of the European Elite and I do feel that for a club that has been on the very brink and who have had to step back from it due to the worlds finances and the ever shifting world of the global media.

whatever the assessment of last five years (It was clear to me back then that his managerial style would not deliver top trophies given the players he was promoting) when excuses about what happened ten years previously and the budget constraint don't apply his performance this year should be enough to see his reign come to an end... Football clubs that rely on past glories have no place in the modern game... ask villa fans

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

The man lost radio contact with planet earth about a decade ago and has been drifting aimlessly through an 8 million quid hazy cosmic jive of his glory years with a rag tag collection of space junkies in tow believing that his fossilized form is some kind of relic from an alien master footballing race which he will eventually call back to north london in a kind of soccer inspired rapture in which Sam and Johnny and Krish and Pat and Mr Admin will finally see all their bizarro football predictions come to fruition..

Four years ago, following a delicious end to the English Premier League season, we crafted a series promoting the glories of relegation and why it would work perfectly in college football.

Three years ago, following a delicious end to the English Premier League season, we crafted a series promoting the glories of relegation and why it would work perfectly in college football.

We look almost certain to still be in the hunt for Europa League glory, a feat accomplished by Manchester United last season, and Alexis could well be kept in order to target the competition in order to seal Champions League football for the following year.

The rumours gathered pace linking the 29 - year old Chilean in a transfer to Manchester City — a well - trodden path for ambitious footballers at Arsenal who wanted to taste Premier League glory at least once in their lifetimes.

A proper icon of the Bolton glory days, the two - time African footballer of the year is a divisive figure in world football, but you'll do well to find anyone at Bolton Wanderers with a bad word to say about the man.

With two big international football competitions behind us, and the domestic football leagues across Europe well underway, it was a year of surprises and bewilderment in the world of football, with some players making a name for themselves on the big stage while others shied away from glory; today, we take a look at the top 5 players who made an impact on the footballing world with their brilliance on the field.

We've been in Europe ten years running; we've played the best football in the Premiership; the second best in Europe, and we've nurtured players and today glory at the skills of players such as Fabregas, Walcot, Wilshire, Nasri, Djouru, Scezny, Van Persie and the like.

Three years ago Emenike was regularly linked with moves to clubs in the upper echelons of the English game — Arsenal, Chelsea — as he led Nigeria's Super Eagles to Africa Cup of Nations glory in South Africa, ending a 19 - year wait for African football's premier competition.

With no European football this year and an ongoing outcry of criticism on style and performance, Manchester United will want to give their fans some glory and what a game it would be for their power packing frontmen to finally deliver on their talent.

The troubled teenager was billed as one of the brightest prospects in English football after firing Unitedâ $ ™ s youth side to FA Cup glory last year, but attitude problems and run - ins with the law have curbed his progress.

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Nook is a basically a 30 something year old former football player, living off their past glories, and lost for a personal identity.