Sentences with phrase «fought for the title in»

He added: «If you can not enjoy playing Champions League against Barcelona, fighting for the title in the Premier League, being with this team, being in the best league in world, if you don't enjoy it, you must need to see a doctor.

They fought for the title in the seasons.

Imagine if we had all of the Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull drivers able to fight for the title in F1 this year and you're some way towards what it might actually be like in MotoGP this year.

«It was a tough game and Tottenham are a very good team who have been fighting for the title in the last few years,» Guardiola explained.

On Sunday, Tottenham host United at White Hart Lane with Pochettino's side nine points ahead of their opponents and fighting for the title in second place, while Van Gaal's men are fifth and hoping only for a top four finish.

Nearly all the male title defenders from Sopot 2014 are set to try to fight for their titles in 2016 at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland.

Not exact matches

The brothers had claimed Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networkwhile all three were undergraduate students at Harvard, a fight that was featured in the film aptly titled The Social Network.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

The new cold war — the title of a book I wrote amid considerable skepticism in 2007 — is fought on different fronts, for different aims.

After losing his World Boxing Organisation title in July, famous Christian boxer Manny Pacquiao said he still has some fight left in him, and wants to fight for God.

While most recipes with «fudge» in their title go crazy on the butter and sugar, this one uses neither, relying instead on just three tablespoons of cancer - fighting maple syrup for the perfect sweet touch.

Bob Rosburg and Jerry Barber, a big and a little man, fought it out for the PGA title in miserable weather, and the big man won

On the other hand, there are six very strong clubs fighting for the EPL title, or at least there were until recently, so it is likely to be harder than ever to get one of those top four spots and there are going to be fans of two clubs set to be disappointed in a few months from now.

I have a feeling for the better part of the year, Charlotte will dominate the Raw women's division so it's in everyone's best interest to have Asuka be on Smackdown and fight with the Iconic Duo, Sasha, and (hopefully) Nikki Cross for the women's title there.

«But we do not throw in the towel and we can make a difference in the battles we have to fight for the Premier League title.»

We seem to be scrapping for our results, but if we cant start to win these games more comfortably, there will be many more points lost, and while this fighting mentality MIGHT help us to get a result with Chelsea in two weeks, it will not guarantee us enough to challenge for the title I feel.

Imagine if we are still in a fight for the EPL title, we need a 3 points for this game as well as need to make sure we advance to semi in the CL, today draw will cost us.

The Tigers had a disappointing debut, surged to two division titles, bottomed out offensively in 2015, made national headlines for something not just related to sports, and underwent a surprise coaching search after Gary Pinkel revealed he was retiring to fight lymphoma.

our pathetic story about arsenal title contenders fade away in a month... and all those shitty players always come out and say how arsenal is fighting for the title (arteta, giroud etc...) time for a new menager, one who will not speaking to the journalists how transfer window should shot down earlier but he is the only one trying to do something in the last day of the transfer window or he is pretending that he is doing something, but no... he flew to the france to be a pundit for france game... I am sick and tired of this man, can't stand it anymore...

Thats just polite talk, many here think UNTD will be fighting for EPL, i think they will fight for top 4, you just can buy 5, 6 players and expect to win something, they will sell Di Maria, thats big loss to them, and De Gea isnt safe either, cohesion of players is big part esspecialy in midfield, they bought new mid, to work they will need time, and time in EPL means no title, Chelsea and Arsenal have the biggest chance to win it, City squad is getting older and less motivated for EPL, and i think Pelegrini isnt on level of Wenger and Mourinho

As long as we're shrewd we stand to be in a terrific position for next seasons title fight.

The Finnish racer thinks it's too early for Mercedes to start chucking its weight behind one driver in the F1 title fight...

we're paying walcott 140k / wk, we're overpaying to a lot of players, the fans pay the highest ticket prices in Europe and no title once again, fighting for top 4.

From a team which competed for the title every season, to one which was always comfortably in the top four, to one which had to fight for the top four, to one which is now sixth and unlikely to get beyond that.

If Sato was in the car it'd be terrific for the championship too, as Lewis Hamilton would get so distracted by his big shiny ring that he'd end up crashing out and allowing Sebastian Vettel back in the title fight.

If his next 2 fights are successful, he could be in with a title shot, and so we wish him the best of luck for the coming year!

Let's hope the Arsenal centre back isn't too badly injured and that he's fit and ready to play in the New Year, when the title fight will become more intense and we need to be confident for our assault on the Champions League, but we have a deep and talented squad and should really be able to live without just one player shouldn't we?

But, Ali aside, boxing is in a parlous state: no work for fighters, small purses when they do fight, empty gyms and fewer licensed fighters than ever before; only two American world champions (Ali and featherweight Danny Lopez)-- a long fall from a time when U.S. fighters held most of the world titles.

BFG has not been up to it so far this season, addition to our defense was promised in the summer but not delivered, according to Wenger «He looked but none was available», fast forward to AGM and Wenger says «we will purchase a defender in January», well if we couldn't find a defender in the summer will that defender miraculously become available in January when 1) his cost will be twice as expensive 2) could be cup tied and 3) with clubs fighting relegation or fighting for the title.

Great majors, a new No. 1, LPGA dominance, an old school fight for the money title and the rediscovery of a vintage track too tough to die made 2011 a terrific year in golf

The latest rumours are saying he is in talks with Sunderland, or even that West Ham will want him to replace Jenkinson, but can Wenger afford to leave Bellerin without any cover as we fight for the title?

Throughout the fight, Woodley and Maia were booed for the lack of action, setting the record for the least amount of strikes in a welterweight title fight.

He fought his way back up for a while, beating Curtis Parker in 1984 to take the USBA middleweight crown, a minor title, but enough to start talk of a fight with Hagler, and an opportunity at a really big win, a chance to grab the titles that mattered, those administered by the WBC / WBA / IBF and The Ring.

There's no doubt they still have the quality to fight for the title, provided that Arnold brings in adequate replacements.

Would King, in his great concern for accuracy and fair play, have made sure that the WBC, WBA and IBF were aware that Tyson had gotten a long count and therefore should have lost the fight and the title?

2 losses in title fights, 1 in a title eliminator 4 by Decision (1 split against Lawler, which most pundits had for Condit) 2 by submission (1 against Maia) 1 TKO (by leg kicks against Woodley, after a takedown had blown out his ACL)

But even Liston's sojourn in Denver didn't still the debate over his worthiness to fight for the title.

The match in question, sometimes referred to as the «Battle of the Bridge» for the fighting that took place on and off the pitch, featured Chelsea overcoming a 2 - 0 deficit to tie the game against Tottenham and deprive the Spurs of their last chance to stave off Leicester City in the Premier League title chase.

Still, in November he got a shot at the WBA middleweight title, fighting Jorge Castro for $ 25,000 in Argentina, his last chance.

Their faint hopes of retaining their Premier League title have disappeared, and they must now fight for a place in the top - four.

Not the time they brought in Brock juiced to the Gils to fight mark hunt at 200, or Jon Jones the goat hit and run with a pregnant lady, bringing GSP back after 3 years for a title shot in a different weight class.

He's at the best team in a less demanding league, at Arsenal there's a massive fight to be had for the title and I'm not convinced 33 year old Ibra could handle it physically.

Of course we are hoping for a title challenge, but the end of the season could well see us in a fight for a top four finish again, with United likely to be one of our main rivals.

It did not necessarily mean that the winner would meet Patterson for the title, since the champion's manager, Cus D'Amato, has banned Machen from consideration in a dispute centering around whether Machen's manager did or did not refuse a championship fight last spring, when D'Amato was collecting brickbats for his perennial war with the International Boxing Club (James D. Norris, president).

but things got all fucked up in title fight negotiations and they ended up with Holly vs GDR for the first title fight.

The Bundesliga title holders had been keen on luring Marco Reus to boost their creative options in the long term but Borussia Dortmund will fight tooth and nail to prevent another of their talents moving to Bayern Munich and as such a move for Ozil may prove more realistic.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that this month could have a big effect on the title race, and he thinks we are in fine fettle for the fight ahead.

- turn all those meaningless 145, 155 and 170 fights into meaningful tournaments in which the action fighters that will never fight for a title (Trinaldo, Iaquinta, Poirier) can fight for a trophy and a big PAYCHECK.

Chelsea win league titles, they win in Europe, they always seem to put up a fight for trophies.

We must accept that we have less experience than city players in the fight for title.