Sentences with phrase «football people around»

Had Manning not balked once asked — and you can find a few respected football people around the league who find it unsettling that Manning had the juice to simply refuse to play along — the fallout could be reversed.

Not exact matches

«I was summoned to a working - man's cafe in London, and all around me, people were eating bacon and eggs and beans and chatting about the football scores, and I put these headphones on and I was transported into another world where Diana talked about her eating disorders, about desperate cries for help, about her loneliness, about her childhood, about her royal life, about Prince Charles.

«Tinder is a huge global platform which, just like football, is bringing millions of people together every day all around the world,» said Tom Glick, City Football Group's chief commercial football, is bringing millions of people together every day all around the world,» said Tom Glick, City Football Group's chief commercial Football Group's chief commercial officer.

Every weekend around 750,000 people attend an English league football match, with hundreds of thousands more visiting Scottish clubs.

Football creates a context for likeminded people to mobilise around a cause.

Football isn't just about 22 people kicking a piece of leather around some grass.

The billionaire tycoon also called for a ban on pre-watershed gambling ads around sporting events, like football games, believing it to be a major cause of young people getting hooked.

It's amazing how creative people get with football snacks when this hummus is around!

Perhaps they feel a bit daft after Arsene Wenger suggested that some people do not appreciate Ozil because they do not see the whole picture on a football pitch and just because our playmaker does not go tear - arsing around like a headless chicken they think he is lazy.

Meanwhile, Chapter One's Street 2 Feet Homeless Football Tournament essentially brought in lots of homeless people from around England to take part in a football touFootball Tournament essentially brought in lots of homeless people from around England to take part in a football toufootball tournament.

Plenty of people complain about footballers earning extortionate sums of money for simply «kicking a ball around» whilst simultaneously switching on their televisions to cheer on a # 42,172 - a-day earning tennis player at Wimbledon.

«If he decides it's hard to come back after that, anywhere he goes, the guy is a great football player and probably one of the most competitive people I've been around.

Football has become a lot more scientific than just 22 people kicking the ball around.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

worst of all we no longer play the kind of football people want to watch as a combination of managerial mediocrity and personal stubborness produce occasional (but increasingly less frequent) highs and (increasingly spectacular) lows around a 4th place average...

Wilshere needs another manager to improve... I have a lot of time for him but he stands around too much waiting for ball whereas before he used to hunt for the ball... but whatever happens we are 6 players short of a quality team... years of penny pinching and over indulging crap players by a clueless manager who is a legend in his own mind... people go on about guardiolas spending in the summer but the team we are now watching play the best football in epl history only has 2 new additions from last year Emerson and walker... I guess mendy would start if fit... we have 2 new players too but we are further behind than ever!!

Suddenly people were turning around and running back, Cal football players at their heels.

Of course we are aware that people's minds and opinions regularly change in football, but I think it is naive to simply believe a story that is thrown around by the media, especially when there isn't even a quote to back up any such claims.

«Through football, I came to learn that it gives a smile to anyone and happiness, then it makes people around you love you,» Olivier says.

It's a shame we'll be spending that kind of money on Lemar.Everyday potential potential potential.If people watched a lot of football they'll know there are cheaper and players just around his age who are as talented or even have more potential.One guy is Amine Harit (remember the name) who's also French.

You have found a place where plastic bandwagon glory hunters who jumped on around 2005 and know very little about football just cry about needing people with over 84 ratings on FIFA

There are lots of nice people around football clubs, ourselves very much included, who are truly loyal to the club they love but who are ultimately of limited value.

This was supported by football clubs around the world and something that Lunn was thankful for in so many people wanting to keep Bradley's legacy growing.

Jose Mourinho seems to be suggesting that Chinese Football extravaganza that is fast becoming a subject of great interest all around is actually a cup of tea of old people who doesn't have much to...

Ligue 1 star KylianMbappe could be the first person to reach the # 100 million mark in football going by the buzz around him.

They base everything around work — people there even told me they haven't got the ability of some of the teams in the Premier League and need to make up for that by working hard and I think that's the right attitude.As a footballer you sometimes have to make decisions, and I think going to Wolves was probably the best thing I could have done.They may not have been doing too well, but the manager [recently departed Mick McCarthy] was very good to me — I think it's very important to go to a manager who likes you, and he showed belief in me.He put me in the team, and I'm just happy that I was able to do him proud on the pitch.

Bob Houghton was a big early influence and there were a group of us who were friends — Lennie Lawrence, Micky Kelly, Dario Gradi, Keith Blunt — people connected around Surrey and south London football.

We're doing work in places as difficult and far flung as Iraq and Syria, Somalia, Indonesia, building football pitches and giving the programmes that go around that infrastructure, those football pitches, that helps us support people to great social outcomes.

More than 860,000 people have already signed a petition at social activism website Change.org to disband the national team, while president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko, who is also the Russian sports minister, has expressed a wish to revamp the team, and build it around players... [Read more...]

A gifted footballer from a young age, he remembers fellow schoolboy footballers who «went down different routes as they got older, hanging around the wrong people, bad influences — it's very easy».

And I saw the game of football as a game where people dressed up like extraterrestrials (laughter), running around a field.

I'm Mohammad Simple Friendly Hard worker person I like playing and watching football and i like to walking around but alone until i find the second part of me whom i want to spend my life with Whom i would love to sha..

Ghanaian working in Qatar.l love people around me inrespetive of their baground.i also love watching football.

The League is framed around an eight - person NFL Fantasy Football League, but while that would almost seem impenetrable for the average UK viewer, the craft of good comedy is about making everyone laugh, even those confused over the more technical... Read More

Millions and millions of people around the world would lose their shit if their favorite football or basketball player died, yet you're sitting here acting like people aren't allowed to have legitimate concern over someone they actually care about?

More than 200 people spent two years making Modern Warfare 3, and the publisher has splashed out on TV ads running around Champions League and Premier League football matches as well as The X Factor, and a massive billboard and poster campaign.

Some people said that Barney was a video version of Mapplethorpe; if he wasn't naked, he was, as in one video, pushing around a football player's blocking sled while dressed in a cocktail dress.

In 2009, around 86,000 people were treated for cycling - related head injuries, while only 47,000 football players were, says The New York Times.

The partnership entitles HUAWEI to pre-install LFP's official APP on its smartphones in Spain, enabling people around the country to follow the live LFP information, while HUAWEI summer camps will give football fans the chance to experience Spanish football culture.

Mine was a group viewing of around 20 people charging around a house with a severe damp problem in south London (while the current renters watched the football in their PJs).