Sentences with phrase «much a football fan»

Mr Leech added that, as a Manchester City supporter for 22 years, he was as much a football fan as anyone.

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In exchange, the Patriots received only a second - round draft pick — and while football fans know how much coach Bill Belichick values his draft picks, it was a shockingly small return for Tom Brady's heir apparent.

The new NFL season is now very much on the horizon, which means one thing for American football fans — a new instalment of the sport's go - to video game, Madden.

Much was at stake, and if football fans can turn passion into aggression it can be of little surprise that the same thing happens with regard to the constitutional future of one's country.

I haven't followed football much since leaving home in my early 20s but I am every bit a fan (my family would disown me otherwise).

This year, we even joined a fantasy football league with our neighbors — which incidentally has made the football season much more enjoyable, even for a disinterested «fan» like me.

I am not much of a football fan, but I am a football food fan!

Fans of the All - Pro quarterback and his favorite sports bar, Walk - On's Bistreaux & Bar, are invited to enter an online charity raffle to win an incredible weekend football package featuring tickets to both an LSU and New Orleans Saints game, a private tour of the Saints training facility, a meet - and - greet with Drew Brees himself, and much more.

The Leicester fans» protest is not even about money as much as it is about football fans being badly treated and even completely ignored by the powers that be.

If Arsene Wenger is to stay on for another year or more as the manager of Arsenal Football Club, a lot of fans will not be happy but there will be little we can do about it other than hope that the Frenchman will realise that he needs to have Arsenal much more competitive and fighting for a major trophy like the Premier League title or the Champions League.

This has to be doubly consternating for college football fans who so very much enjoyed themselves last year: Notre Dame is not only really good again; the Irish are also fun as hell.

Are there wedding message boards full of commenters screeching and wailing just as much as college football fans?

But I guess whining is as much of being a Lions fan as football on Thanksgiving.

To be honest Arsene, there wasn't really much football to talk about, but the fact is that every Arsenal fan knows that without a new striker we have little chance of the title this season, but according to him, the protests from the travelling fans are simply because they are being led by the media rather than making their own mind up.

We don't support a football team anymore we support a business and that's a fact its not going to change regardless of if Wenger goes or not (and I would dearly love him to go) because the board are in charge and until the suits are gone and a FOOTBALL FAN like the much missed David Dein comes back into the fold we are NOT going to see any real diffootball team anymore we support a business and that's a fact its not going to change regardless of if Wenger goes or not (and I would dearly love him to go) because the board are in charge and until the suits are gone and a FOOTBALL FAN like the much missed David Dein comes back into the fold we are NOT going to see any real difFOOTBALL FAN like the much missed David Dein comes back into the fold we are NOT going to see any real difference.

well not that i expect much from football fans, they are one of the least intelligent and most emotional thinking people in the world..

Really don't get this whole «if you aren't as upset by football as I am than you're not as much of a fan» narrative.

I know that a bigger percentage of Arsenal fans than ever before would like to see the end of Arsene Wenger's reign as the manager of Arsenal Football Club as soon as possible, but if it came down to a choice between having a new man in charge next season or winning the Europa League this year then I am sure that percentage would be much smaller.

Being from the Raleigh, NC area, we know a lot about Russell Wilson and how good he really is, but I don't think the average college football fan has seen much of him.

Secondly, it was the Arsenal fans joining in with the AC Milan fans towards the end of the game that added to the atmosphere although I do agree with you that we certainly do need to improve it, but I fear that might be asking to much with the modern Emirates football fan.

Well the Gunners got one of those away to Middlesborough tonight, with a 2 - 1 victory over the relegation bound Boro, but our performance at the Riverside could hardly be called convincing or confidence building by any means, and I doubt very much whether any of the recent complaints from the fans or the questions from the football media will have gone away.

When the window slams shut then what we have is what we got to work with, I think some fans play a bit too much football manager to understand that players have feelings and they need to be dealt with on a personal level, how would the players react if Wenger openly says they are not good enough?

It really baffles me sometimes how fans like you portray Wenger and at the end I feel the day ya'all forget that Wenger is an employee of Arsenal and he's now bigger than the club, yes he's a legend and he deserves a statue but at the same time that is Arsenal's downfall because Wenger has too much control over the club and he shouldn't be allowed to make some decisions on like players to buy or the amount of money to spend, he has to just focus on football and only football alone.

IMO, diaby was to much gift than wilshere... the truth is wilshere jas a nice dribble an avereage pass and an awfull shoot... he has a lot of energy and playa with his hearth... the last was the best of his qualities... he is a fan, so he can die for the team... but talking about football quality, diaby was a lot better... diaby was absoulutly outstanding each time he plays... inteligent player, dribbling, pace, strenght, great pass, great shot... losing him was a very low kick, one of those things that wenger was not guiltt but victim (one of just a few)

we have lost to west ham for that much... but i just don't know why chelsea have fans and above all that why the watch football.

I am not a Longhorns fan — I'm a TCU graduate going to grad school at Texas A&M — but with Texas contending for championships in football and basketball, is that just too much burnt orange for SI?

''... pretty much the entire football world thinks Eagles fans are more badly behaved than other fans.».

Schexnayder, an Alabama fan who has written for sites like Roll Bama Roll and [my own] Football Study Hall, loves the backstories almost as much as the game itself.

«As a football fan and as someone who would like to be featured not so much on a stage but at a football game, I think he has every right to point out her beauty,» Rogers responded.

Unsurprisingly, the rabid fans who circulated that band's demos and went to their local shows are also people who are very much against modern football.

LSU football fans didn't have much to be happy about last Saturday night after their team got manhandled by the Arkansas Razorbacks.

The tournament has been good for the big Gunner though, and even if he and his French team mates do not manage to beat Portugal in the final he will finish the tournament with much more confidence and form than he started it and his reputation with the French fans and football media will be much better.

Football is a game where one team tries to outwit the other and being too obvious is not always the smartest thing to do but some of us fans, we'd spend 90 million on a Pogba, I actually do nt see the problem with spending that much on Pogba if you can actually afford it, so I won't even hate lol, but of that amount, how much is hype and how much is actual quality?

The former manager of Tottenham, West Ham and a host of other clubs, Harry Redknapp, came up with the not so brilliant idea of our former captain Tony Adams who, as much as he is loved by the Arsenal fans, has tried and failed to be a good football manager, so we can scratch that one.

Its not about a bad manager its about having the finances and not buying the necessary players for the past three years that gets me, Budd you moan about the media but its not its professionals who understand the business of football who are all agreeing that we needed players for the past 7 transfer windows, trust me without me going in to too much details i understand how business are run and works and Arsenal is not thinking too far ahead, we have already lost ground in the world of top clubs by not wining a major trophy, now you might not care about wining like you said couple of weeks ago but pls understand football is a competition sport and nearly all the fans would like us to win a major trophy soon,

Choices, choices, choices, that's what happened to our once free - flowing, beautiful on the eyes brand of football... the move from Highbury was a friggin hoax played on all Gunner fans... North London football is now for the fat cats and wannabes, not for those of us who rather watch from home because we love the game and we would rather not pay a weeks wage to get a seat a 1/4 mile from the field of play... much like a high - end business that once cared deeply for the artisans who toiled to create something quite brilliant, they have become an assembly - line factory trying to get the most for the least while still raising the prices of their product..

They will be insulting each others» Mums next if this carries on much further and all it is doing is making Arsenal look even more shambolic and giving those TV pundits, football journalists and fans of rival clubs more bullets to fire at us.

I can only see one and that's the realistic side: Arene deserves respect, but he won't get it as much as he should simply becuz he's got no respect for the fans and what club football stands for.

No matter how much Arsenal fans want to comfort ourselves by saying that Arsene Wenger did a brilliant job by keeping the Gunners in the Champions League when his transfer budget was basically a piece of string and a winning smile, the fact is that football is all about results, especially in the modern era.

We all know that the English football press loves an Arsenal transfer rumour and it seems to me that they would much prefer one that puts pressure on Arsene Wenger or one that winds up the Arsenal fans, so if they can fin one that does both it is like gold to them.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

I know I am repeating myself, but it is unacceptable, stone wrong and inadmissible that a manager earning so much and with the support he receives from Arsenal football club as well as the fans, can not deliver (understatement) trophies, major trophies, on a regular basis...

Last season Blake Bortles and Kirk Cousins surprised football fans across the country by bringing some much - needed stability to their struggling franchises.

He came with so much hope that he is a failure for what we hoped as fans, he isn't a bad footballer but AFC fans can see he is no TH14 and that is what they was expecting.

Is it just me or are we, the global football fans, inundated with too much football anyway?

Much to the disbelief of, not only the Santiago Bernabeu faithful, but football fans as a whole, Cristiano Ronaldo unselfishly passed to his Real Madrid team - mate in the box to set up his side's winning goal, which saw the Spanish giants progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League, ahead of neighbours Atletico Madrid, on Wednesday night.

It's not even debatable that most football fans would agree with me that as a footballer Wilshere is better and can do much more.They'll also stress that Wilshere is more injury prone.

If the fans cared as much about CL football as they did about title, we'd prob miss that too.

But the name of Alexander Pato will not inspire much excitement in the Arsenal fans who have been hoping for a big name signing like Karim Benzema, unless they have been in a coma or have been out of touch with the football world for the last four or five years, because up until then the former AC Milan star was one of the hottest prospects in the game.

There could be two very different approaches that Arsenal will face at Old Trafford tomorrow, with some fans expecting Jose Mourinho to set his Manchester United team up to stifle the space and frustrate our fluent, and creative attacking football, while some including our veteran keeper Petr Cech thinking that Mourinho will have to be more adventurous as he is already six points adrift of us and eight points off the top of the Premier League table so a draw would not be all that much use to him.