Sentences with phrase «golden generation of»

Henshall is the ethereal and gentle of the Jockpack, a golden generation of Scottish actors which also includes Robert Carlyle, Alan Cumming, John Hannah and Ewan McGregor.

The death of Ahmed Kathrada emphasises that a golden generation of anti-apartheid heroes has nearly gone.

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With Marc Wilmots» men's clash with Sweden also highly priced, there appears to be a lot of Belgian fans on their way to neighbouring France and hopes are clearly high that their golden generation of players can reward them with glory.

The last time the two teams met in a World Cup, the USA did the unthinkable, defeating a Portugal squad that contained a golden generation of players who were tipped to realize their potential in international football.

Given the golden generation of Spanish football players, «La Roja» with no doubts has been the best team in the world by greater margins.

There have been players who were not really flashy, or skilled like others but manage to win trophies throughout their careers for example some of the golden generation of Spanish national team who not only won 2010 world cup but two back to back European titles as well as success with their respective club teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid.

All good things must come to an end, though, and Spain's last two major tournaments have ended prematurely, with their golden generation of stars finally coming unstuck on the international stage.

The golden generation of Beckham, Lampard and Gerard did erm............ nothing?

Man has 73 caps for Spain in their golden generation of world class midfielders.

Can Wiggins be the guy who leads a golden generation of Canadian players who are ready to change the landscape of basketball?

Let's be honest England just don't produce the world class players needed to win big tournaments, even the so - called golden generation of Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham etc were never at the same level as the likes of Xavi, Pirlo in internationals for their country!

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Here are four distinct (and distinctly appealing) options for where this most individual of generations should spend the golden years.

This is not the scenario that would have been envisioned a generation ago for the «Golden Years» of retirement.

When angry boomers and their «greatest generation» elders talked about my generation, they'd always accuse us of caustic irony and cynicism — it seems we had ushered in a golden age of sarcasm.

Every generation, every presidential election, the doom and gloomers come out to remind us of the golden age that their childhood has come and gone.

Our generation's passionate search for relevancy (that golden word) is a reflex of the suspicion we have that we may have lost our way.

Nor is the brick - and - mortar emphasis of the «golden age» of the Catholic parish, which extended roughly from 1920 to 1960, the norm for succeeding generations.

O'Neill Vintners was founded in 2004 by Jeff O'Neill, former CEO of Golden State Vintners and third generation member of a California winemaking family with industry roots dating back to 1934.

As we do in our work with high - iron and high - zinc rice, we will be looking at the performance of the Golden Rice version of BRRI dhan29 over many generations, across different regions of Bangladesh, and in different seasons.

Huang Dafang, a member of the biosafety committee in charge of agricultural GM organisms, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, said that using a new generation of GM crops, such as golden rice, to achieve nutritional improvements is now a global trend.

In fact, Hodgson suggests that Wilshere could well be at the heart of the national side for years to come and could be one of the main stars in a new «golden generation `.

There Howard Cosell interviews a wrestler named Golden George on the merits of Fruit of the Loom underwear, and Yogi Berra and his sons depict the generation gap.

Nationally, England fans that have abandoned the golden generation as being naught but gilt point to his crucial role in derailing at least one major tournament and the resignation of England's best recent manager, while those that still entertain the faint and flickering hope that the pyrite frauds might genuinely glister, just the once, despair of his turbulent, toxic presence in the squad.

Many called for Hodgson's head after England's limp World Cup collapse, but the former Liverpool boss deserves huge credit for rebuilding a side that so badly needed the likes of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, the last remaining debris of that ill - fated «Golden Generation», to retire from international duty and allow for a new start.

The French press often used Nasri as an example of the trouble France had transitioning from their golden generation to younger talent who were perceived not to have the right attitude.

Next world cup these same players will have become part of another so called «golden generation» and again they will fail.

Fergie and Wenger know football more than any manager of this generation, they were brought up in the golden era of sports.

England fans are feeling less positive about their team, following a very poor 2014 World Cup and the recent retirements of three of the golden generation — Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.

Whereas Portugal's golden generation - Luis Figo, Rui Costa, Sergio Conceicao, and so on - were at least a coherent international side that had gelled in victory at consecutive FIFA Youth Championships, this was simply a confluence of talented players from disparate clubs and of mismatched styles.

Jonathan Wilson views the tactical side of the matter as part of a larger fallacy with the whole of the golden generation:

This, arguably, was the main reason for the farrago of the golden generation: England were blessed with a remarkably talented generation of players; the problem was that Michael Owen and David Beckham needed a 4 -4-2, while Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard needed an additional holding player.

Brazil's version of a possible golden generation is aging, but a final attempt to medal on home soil could reinvigorate them.

Stuart Pearce, Paul Gascoigne, and Ian Wright were nearing the end of their international careers, Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham more or less in their pomp, and the vanguard of the «golden generation» were beginning to establish themselves.

@ Ivan yes the older fans r quite aware that arsenal was in d same category with d likes of Everton and Aston villa before the arrival of Wenger, while arsenal has climb mountains courtesy of Wenger's ingenuity, hard work, smartness, and sheer brilliance the other ones has remained dormant and one eve suffered relegation,, even when d owners of of arsenal fc has not backed him with mighty cash, he transformed arsenal to one of d most valuable club in d world today, and one of d richest club in d world today, he didn't stop there, he went ahead to win 17 trophies for arsenal fc, it amazes me how some pple who has never contributed any thing to d growth of arsenal fc will be ranting every day here insulting the greatest manager in d history of afc bcos u could afford 10mb data is ridiculous, for ur information u have bragging right today as an arsenal fan courtesy of what Wenger offered u, the golden trophy, and 49 unbeaten run is something that can take another generation to match,

Also in the Stoke ranks is Glen Johnson, the most junior of the Hammer's youth golden generation who between them amassed a raft of Premier League, Champion's League, FA Cup and League Cup winner's medals — sadly none with their academy club.

Generations of players hovered around the floor during games, heatedly debating whether the golden age of high school basketball had passed.

That the potential of the golden generation was dismally squandered is a painful tale of woe that we won't go into here.

The golden generation is not one team but exactly that — a generation of genuine world - class talents.

If Italy win against Costa Rica today, then England will crash out, signalling the end of their «Golden Generation».

It's an exciting period because the squad is mostly rid of «golden generation» players like Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard.

This ad featuring United for a Kuwaiti mobile telecom company, Viva, uses their national team of 1982, their Golden Generation, who qualified for t...

Part of the Nigeria's golden generation, winning Olympic gold in 1996, Babayaro found his way to London via Anderlecht the following summer and became a mainstay in their squad for more than a decade.

Since the appointment of Julen Lopetegui the former World and European champions have managed to combine the experience of their golden generation with the energy and exuberance of a crop of young players the manager knows all about from his time in charge of the Under 21s.

I'm no Wenger apologist, but he has a point, because we didn't win a trophy for nine years and were told that pretty football means nothing, so to see this Tottenham team being held up as some kind of golden generation does feel hollow to me, having seen my team be lambasted for being all frills and no end product.

Jones could yet be another one of those astute signings by Sir Alex as he also fits the bill for the homegrown player rule which can not be neglected in the years to come, especially since United are left with only Giggs out of all those players from the golden generation.

With the country's «golden generation» probably facing their final World Cup as a collective, the Ivorian players will want to make sure they live up to the promise that presented all of those years ago.

They played ever so poorly with the likes of the so called «golden generation».

Manchester United have produced more English talent for the national team than any other club but when looking at the younger players in the England squad you could argue they don't match the ability of the so - called «golden generation».