Sentences with phrase «of league stadiums»

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Year after year, the Marlins were at the bottom of league attendance, their cavernous stadium conspicuously empty.

The Minneapolis - based chain signed a three - year deal to become an official sponsor of Major League Soccer, including broadcast advertising on Univision, Fox Sports and ESPN, and in - stadium experiences.

Arsene Wenger has brought plenty of glory to the Gunners, from winning the Premier League whilst going unbeaten, before helping the club through an important phase in their history, guiding them through tough financial issues whilst building the new top of the range stadium, and still kept us in the top four throughout.

Next up is struggling Crystal Palace and with the game being played at the Emirates stadium on new years day and looking at Palace's league position and recent form you might think it is another three points in the bag, except for the fact that they have a new manager in the shape of Sam Allardyce and according to a Sky Sports report the Palace defender Martin Kelly reckons that the Big Sam effect is already making itself felt at Selhurst Park.

It looks to me like Arsenal will be the only team from the current top three of the Premier League that will have anything but the Premier League title race to worry about by next week, always assuming that the Gunners manage to get past Watford at the Emirates stadium on Sunday, but how will that affect things?

«The Twins aren't moving — I'd say there's a 99.9 percent chance they'll stay,» says Mike Veeck, president of the St. Paul Saints, an independent minor league team that sells out all its games in a 6,329 - seat stadium 15 minutes from the Metrodome.

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All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.

They visited the Etihad stadium, where the eventual Premier League champions were irrepressible in their goal - scoring form, and making a mockery of the visiting teams by hitting them for 5's and 6's.

One thing that is true though is that merchandise sales at the stadiums are generally considered stadium revenue, so all the profits go to the home team, and aren't shared with the rest of the league.

Although America is Mexico's most successful club domestically, with twelve league titles, they frequently struggle to fill their stadium to capacity — despite playing a city with a population of 28 million people.

I expected Mariota, who has never really done much to prove otherwise, to become extra shaky in a road playoff game, especially against a turnover - hungry defense and in one of the loudest stadiums in the league.

After winning three premier league trophies and four FA cups was it his responsibility to put his reputation on the line by spearheading the building of a modern stadium for Arsenal?

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

u have to be an utterly moronic corporate lacky to try to pretend that it is some kind of achievement to win it) to be a triumph fa cup is now a second level trophy just like finishing 4th is not like winning the league... we were told that moving in to a fancy new stadium was our path to competing with the top European clubs while instead we have since moving in fallen consistently behind..

This is the fourth time a team will play the final of the European Cup / Champions League in their own stadium after Real Madrid in 1956/57 (2 - 0 win against Fiorentina at the Bernabeu), Inter Milan in 1964/65 (1 - 0 win against Benfica at the San Siro) & Roma in 1983/84 (losing in a penalty shoot - out against Liverpool at the Olimpico).

That in turn would present Tottenham with a real headache, as the Argentine coach has done an excellent job thus far and is seen as a key figure in taking them forward in the coming years with a new stadium on the way and the pressure of establishing them as perennial Premier League title contenders.

We have played in the champions league three out of the four seasons and have filled our wonderful stadium (all due to Arsene's vision) to capacity with a reported waiting list of ten years.

Money is there (stadium with highest pricing per seat in England; commercial & marketing deals, UCL, TV deal, club valuation); one of the best league in the world of football, a great city & manager.

It seems arsenal not winning the league does not entirely rest on us not spending enough but rather an arrogant manager unable to adapt to the demands and dynamism of the modern reality of football.After 10 yrs of low spending purportedly because of paying stadium fees then one wonders how have leicester managed to WIN (unbelievable) the league while spending low??? how cld manshitty expand ethihad massively yet still can spend big??? The wenger project has failed miserably and it time for a new project and destiny!

Consequently, the Gunners MUST nullify the Reds ambition to enhance their Champions League qualification at the Emirates stadium by hammering them in the manner of, AFC 5 - 0 LFC.

we have a beautiful stadium with two world - class players who are have realised that the club has no ambition but to qualify to the champions league and gets humiliated by the top teams at the round of sixteen for the fans to say» in Wenger we trust».

Gone are the George Graham «boring, boring Arsenal» days and fans are now treated to free - flowing, sumptuous football all in the pleasure of the best stadium in the Premier League.

Well if we failed we won't have won a trophy last season (FA cup would be used to blood youngsters), we won't have players like Alexis and Ozil come into the club, and we definitely would not be able to keep players like Cazorla, Walcott and Ramsey because we would probably be playing Europa league (or even not been in Europe) and still have probably 5 more years to go in paying of the stadium because we are not getting enough money into the club (no Champions league).

Athens side Panionios were so sickened by the prospect of allowing arch rivals AEK Athens to use their ground for their forthcoming Europa League match against Dundee United that their fans decided to trash their own stadium.

Not so outrageously avaricious, but just a bit crafty, nonetheless, is the decision of the Houston National League baseball club to have dugouts 75 feet long in its new stadium.

While Arsenal do not really have anything to play for, Premier League points and position wise, against West Brom at the Emirates stadium today, Arsene Wenger and the players will be very keen to get back to winning ways ahead of the crucial clash against Aston Villa at Wembley next weekend.

Let's just say we sacrificed 4th spot back then for FA cup and Carling cup, we probably would have won a few trophies but I'm definitely sure we would not have made Champions league on a consistent basis which means it would have taken the club longer to pay of the stadium and also for us to be able to get the likes of Alexis, Ozil and even Cazorla.

I have a better plan, how about we hand our 13 league titles, our first eleven and the entire emirates stadium for a pot of Lentils?

He always blows up the chance of winning the league but how he has done 18 consecutive years of top 4 with rebuilding of the new stadium is beyond anyone in the world ryt now.

Steve Bruce has plenty of reason to want to add to any sort of pressure currently on the shoulders of Arsene Wenger, as the Frenchman takes his Arsenal players to the KC stadium on Monday night and Hull City are desperate for any sort of result as they face a fierce fight to stay in the promised land of the Premier League.

Arsenal built the stadium in the most expensive city in the country to build in and never once fell out of those all - important Champions League places.

Stuck at Anfield, they don't have the resources to get into the Champions League anymore or compete for the league because instead of building a new stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing League anymore or compete for the league because instead of building a new stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing league because instead of building a new stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing to do.

Interestingly, on every match day you will find all stadiums full of happy and cheering supporters who even know they have no chance of winning the league!

The striker would cost Arsenal around # 35 million, and while the Wenger of old might not have been willing to spend such vast sums, the ending of Arsenal's stadium debt and the new Premier League TV deal mean the Arsenal boss has been happier to part with the club's cash in recent seasons.

Liverpool City council have approved Liverpool FC's application to rebuild two sides of Anfield, meaning the historic stadium will eventually have a capacity of 58,500 making it one of the biggest stadiums in the Premier League, the Guardian reports.

Wenger said: «I went with the club for the challenge of building a new stadium without dropping out of the Champions League and we made it every year,».

Yeah, securing top - 4 and champions league football while turning a profit in the transfer market to pay off a stadium debt while competing in the most competitive league in the world, as Chelsea and City spend billions at the hands of sugar daddies and United was at the peak of their powers?

I was sitting here during the period when we had to pay the stadium back and the income of the Champions League was absolutely vital.

After Leicester city wining the league, these excuses of building new stadium and financial restriction and all bla bla bla are invalid...

I don't want to go into politics as this is a football forum, In the past we have seen plenty of tragedies inside football stadiums, especially in England, where hundreds of fan's lost their lifes and there was no postponement to the league back then.

Remember a few weeks ago, Arsenal fans, when the new manager of West Ham issued us with a stark warning that we would find his team an impossible nut to crack when they turned up at the Emirates stadium next Sunday for our opening game of the new Premier League season?

Real Madrid are in full and complete control of their Champions League quarterfinal tie with Juventus, having defeated the Italians in their home stadium, 3 - 0, giving Madrid a massive advantage heading back home to the Santiago Bernabeu.

Viera and van persie, also seen as top talents in their respective leagues, credit to Wenger to scout them out and give them the platform to perform In summary, this repost isn't to knock Wenger down but I feel Wenger is given far too much credit for things he shouldn't (eg building of the emirates, I haven't seen pics of him carrying the bricks with which the stadium was built though).

Make a big enough protest and instead of the headlines being «arsenal crash out of the champions league» it'll change to something about the supporters or stadium atmosphere, which should shake things up upstairs.

Surely, a manager who can produce the Invincibles at a time when teams like United and Chelsea were a force, is capable enough of winning the league at least once in the last 10 years, stadium or not.

When we begun building the new stadium and our best players jumped ship, to expect Wenger to win the league (especially with the emergence of Chelsea and City), was asking a heck of a lot.

However, because of Per Mertesacker retiring from the Germany national side after the World Cup and with Nacho Monreal, Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini not being called up, Wenger and Steve Bould will have been able to get some serious defensive training done with these four players and with Hector Bellerin at right back and that could pay dividends against Man United in the Premier League clash at the Emirates stadium.

From a United perspective it seems your fans get stitched up by the board every year.Early on each Summer you're linked with all manner of superstar signings (this year Mbappe), then once the season tickets have been sold it all fizzles out.Considering you have the highest season ticket prices in the league, it's a disgrace really.For years the excuse was that you were paying for the great new stadium, but after that you'd be competing with Europe's elite for the top players, that came and went and still a major lack of investment your squad needs.

Regardless of how the stadium proceeds, by the time the Americans return with their schematics in June, they will already know a much more crucial fate, that is, whether or not they have secured a spot in next year's Champions League, the all - important lynchpin for the Americans» plans.