Sentences with phrase «niggly fouls»

Preston also increasingly became tetchy with niggly fouls and players going down easily to try and break up play.

The Gunners did get a significant amount of luck when Lee Mason didn't give Francis Coquelin a second yellow card after he committed a few niggly fouls.

It was just a series of little niggly fouls.

Not exact matches

That would explain why the silly niggly little fouls are often ignored when committed by our opponents but given when committed by our players, and why yellow cards are given seemingly more quickly to our players than the opposition.