Sentences with phrase «of a cult hero with»

The Dane has become somewhat of a cult hero with his antics off the pitch, but after leaving Wolfsburg at the end of last season, he has been without a club since.

Not exact matches

Hero worship is not conducive with true learning; it's not a mentorship, it's the beginning of a cult.

The imperial god was essentially a new one; its continuity with other hero cults and the worship of Roma has been exaggerated.

There is no salvation through the cult of the sports hero because sports — and sportswriting — deals with only the surface of life.

Despite his cult hero status among the Anfield faithful, and his apparently world - class standing in the game, Liverpool have been slow out of the blocks with a new contract for the 23 - year - old defender.

He became something of a cult hero after he was spotted removing a wheel with one hand and putting a new one on with the other in a single beautiful, effortless, sweeping motion.

Riise, 37, spent seven years on Liverpool's books, becoming something of a cult hero for his occasional wonder - goals with that hammer of a left foot of his.

Nothing will change cos you have too meny wenger boys as our supporters, they only supports wenger not the club.end of the season arsene will get his 4th place trophy, may win carling cup and all the wenger boyz will get there banner out saying «arsene fc» clupping there cult hero the board members are happy cos they cn see fans are happy.so he will go on to the next season with same ambition.us real fan who supports the club we are left to see the same crap all over again.12 years n still going strong

Bolton Wanderers» experienced former England international striker Emile Heskey has said that it is «wonderful» that he has the chance to visit his old stamping ground, Anfield, in the FA Cup fourth round this week, with the former Liverpool cult hero hoping that he can hurt the club where he arguably enjoyed the finest years of his career.

I can't help but think of Paulo Wanchope at times, a Derby County cult hero who had a very unpredictable style of play and the fans would often say even he didn't know what he was doing with the ball as he rounded players and scored.

Strong, stocky, daring and brave, this trio of English playmakers all share similar threads to their game, starting with Barkley, Everton's 22 - year - old prodigy, to the cult hero of Italia» 90, Gazza via captain and England's all - time top scorer, Wayne Rooney.

Academy product Morgan was somewhat of a cult hero at Forest, though vastly underrated by some supporters considering he has since gone on to win the Premier League with current club Leicester City.

The former Everton cult hero always had the look of a player with managerial ambitions, as the way he played -LSB-...]

Tim Cahill has assumed cult hero status with Milwall, Everton and Australia fans; an all - action midfielder who is one of the best players in the air the Premier League has ever seen.

His on and off - field manner suggests he is one of the true good guys in football and that combined with that amazing four - goal haul at Anfield has practically established him as an Arsenal cult - hero.

says the man who's become a cult hero with his daily dose of musical satire

Bryan Lee O'Malley's guitar - slinging Canadian comic book hero Scott Pilgrim came into the world in 2004, and after a series of five award - winning graphic novels (and a 6th debuting on July 20th) Scott Pilgrim makes his big screen debut with Canuck cult actor Michael Cera in the lead, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright at the helm, and a cast that includes Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and indie favourite Jason Schwartzman!

In 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a «sequel - reboot» of Joe Johnston's cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack - having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 original.

Eschewing the trappings of the biopic — psychology, cult of the hero — Assayas catches Carlos (Edgar Ramirez) mid-stream, between the fated year 1973 (Four Concepts of Psychoanalysis, coup in Chile), when Waddie Haddad (Ahmad Kaabour) makes him number two in the European network of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); and 1994, when he is snatched in a Khartoum hospital by the French Secret Services who promptly brought him to stand trial in Paris: no cute or sinister growing - up tales, no face - to - face with oneself within the four walls of a cell.

It looks like The Greatest American Hero is heading back to TV screens, with Deadline revealing that The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are teaming with Dope helmer Rick Famuyiwa for a single - camera comedy remake of the cult 1980s TV series for 20th Century Fox TV.

But it's sort of their shot at a foul - mouthed pot - sex - bodily - functions - Judd Apatow - style comedy and as such seems watered down, with just a hint of the British eccentricity that made them cult heroes.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

The game continues the tradition of hack - and - slash side - scrollers (or belt - scrollers, as this subgenre is sometimes known) established by cult favorites like Guardian Heroes, while updating the feature set for modern times with HD visuals and smoother gameplay.

With its blinking blue ball of a hero and morbidly cute style, it earned several sequels, gathered a cult following, scored its main characters spots in Nintendo's Kirby franchise and, most recently, showed up on the Wii's Virtual Console.

The likes of Contra III, Guardian Heroes and Metal Slug get all the glory, but this cult gem was up there with them.

Masafumi Takada: Grasshopper's Musical Craftsman «Masafumi Takada is possibly the breakout Japanese game composer of recent years - soundtracking cult titles Killer7 and No More Heroes and contributing to the Smash Bros and Resident Evil series - Gamasutra goes in - depth with him on his art.»

He has signed with Pace Gallery, stabilized his market and suddenly looks poised to move from cult hero to a kind of «mid-career» canonization.

Dragon Quest II begins with a demonic siege on the kingdom of Moonbrooke, one of many kingdoms founded by the hero of Dragon Quest I, by the mad priest Hargon and his apocalyptic cult.