Sentences with phrase «scapegoat last»

Giroud was a scapegoat last season because he had the expectation that every goal was to be scored by him when Walcott and Rambo were injured, remember we had 5 midifelders compared to 1 striker — a little phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility present concerning our everchanging midfielders.

And if they're going to scapegoat last season's problems on Rose - Butler not fitting together, Rondo should be an even worse fit next to Jimmy.

Chelsea and Mourinho were the scapegoats last season after being built up following their title win the previous season.

Not exact matches

For his part Kogan has maintained he did nothing illegal — telling the Guardian last month that he's being used as a scapegoat by Facebook.

I take the symbolism in the Last Supper to show us that in His death, Jesus was revealing that scapegoating death and bloodshed is the basic human sin and is unnecessary for the forgiveness of sins.

The 27 year old became something of a scapegoat for last season's failures and was repeatedly booed by his own supporters, this despite the fact that he finished the campaign as the club's leading assist maker.

Having said that I'm not trying to make Monreal a scapegoat, he was one of our most consistent performers last season.

Like Sanchez, Ramsey has spent the last few days not just coming to terms with having a free summer next year but being made the scapegoat for Wales» defeat to the Republic of Ireland, something which often happens at the Emirates.

And after all of the crap last year with his heart and then the knee, and in my view, the scapegoating.....

Lincoln Riley and his play calling should not serve as the primary scapegoat for last night's debacle, but he has rightfully received some criticism.

However, in recent times Chelsea have found it difficult against Arsenal and in the last game on Wednesday, Morata was the scapegoat for angry fans.

Not that we should read too much into Wednesday's match, given the weather conditions etc., but many have pointed to last season's capocannoniere, and would be Chelsea striker Edin Dzeko, as the scapegoat for Roma's struggles.

The Frenchman believes Jose Mourinho is using him as a scapegoat for what went wrong at Old Trafford last season and is attempting to force him out.

«We fought the last general election arguing against such scapegoating, and celebrating the contributions of migrants to our society.

Mayor Bill de Blasio accused President Donald Trump of «scapegoating» and «attempting to demonize» immigrants — especially the undocumented — with his proposal last night to create a new office to tackle immigrants who commit crimes against American citizens.

He's the scapegoat of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he's not a piece of shit so much as just pathetic and therefore the perfect — and last — receptacle into which the audience for stuff like this tosses their psychic rubbish.

This was the case late last year when Epic sued a teenager, released his name, and drew the scorn of his mother who argued that there wasn't sufficient evidence, Epic's ToS for Fortnite required consent for a minor to play which the mother did not give, that the company could not demonstrate a financial loss, and that her son was being used as a scapegoat.

Last chance to see Grayson Perry's punchy exhibition exploring everyone's favourite scapegoat, populism.

One possibility is that having failed to win the argument (it's generally agreed that scepticism has increased over the last decade or so) they need to create an excuse, a scapegoat, an imaginary villain, rather than face up to their own failings.

The app developer, Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who is not named in the Cook County suit, told the BBC last week that he didn't know the data would be used for Trump's election campaign and that Cambridge Analytica is using him as a scapegoat.