Sentences with phrase «papered over some cracks with»

if you can paper over a crack with a Europa league cup then it will do more for the fans that support arsenal football club through thick and thin then those that just complain.

He papered over the cracks with a FA Cup trophy but the tension is still there.

And although his side papered over some cracks with last weekend's FA Cup semi-final success, it's apparent that something needs to change:

Not exact matches

Under 23 players look good and many now getting a run out in first team So we are in transition finally rather than papering over the cracks If we get either Malcolm or Auba then its been a good window with new and younger players coming in for Sanchez Waclott and Giroud

I don't want a window papering over the cracks like Fergie did with RVP at united.

Wenger's has been getting away with the poly filler and the papering over the cracks for years now!

All in all, with these guys in charge, we are only papering over the cracks, the only clubs that made it to the latter stages of the Champions League last season were either owned by the fans, sugar daddies or family owned, go figure.

That result — against a team confident of being in the Premier League next season — provided the Gunners with a much - needed confidence boost, but it merely papered over the cracks, which are wide and deep.

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

look man i understand that you say ozil in the middle means no protection or less than adequate but ozil will be CAM and he is close to scoring a tap - in rather than giving shield to arteta who is an unreliable source and does not deserve the captaincy, wenger only gave it to him cause he gave the players some papering over the cracks statements after the Liverpool, chelsea and man city match and the player does not even have a cap for the national team Wenger may have seen this as a player who can play in and out with no internationals regardless of his qualities on the pitch and the main reason why he sold vermaelen who would have done decent job at CDM and then all that fluid style that arsene thinks he can play dictate «arrogance»!

More often than not it was Emre Can tasked with plugging the holes throughout the midfield but if Klopp's men are to be contenders on all fronts they can't be papering over cracks like that again.

Alaba would paper over a lot of the cracks that Arsenal have suffered in defence for the last ten years, and with fellow defenders in Mustafi, Bellerin and Gabriel the Gunners would have a huge standard of defenders for years to come.

Mertesacker, too, feels there is only so long the Gunners can paper over the cracks, with the World Cup winner looking forward to welcoming his team - mates back.

But a tie with a powder - puff Leeds team would only paper over the cracks and as October arrived, the ability to occasionally cling on to a draw gave way to a portentous run of defeats — boss Steve Smith finally losing his job and being replaced by a big name manager in Malcolm Macdonald, a promising helmsman indeed in an earlier spell at Fulham, previously chronicled in these pages.

With discontent growing ever louder around Arsenal, the FA Cup can no longer paper over the cracks appearing in the team and in the fan base.

As a result the movie feels delicate and presents certain flatness in its structure, like cracks that have been papered over and held together with superglue so that it may be sold to the public quick, before anyone notices that it's broken.

papers over the cracks of the slightly tardy and unresponsive gearbox, the Sport Handling ESP setting is beautifully judged and you can drive right into it and let it set and hold the perfect angle of attack, and the body control with the Sport damper mode selected is superb for a big, heavy car.

Instead of his condescending attitude and disingenuous attempts to paper over the cracks later, he would do well to reassess his own capabilities and check his work before going public with it.