Sentences with phrase «story about football»

Version 1 is a simple story about a football team.

First, the 2018 World Cup: this is squarely a story about football, and therefore likely to find a global audience even if its sense of humour remains lovably, colloquially English.

The balance between both is a little off, and there's very little actual football for a story about football.

Mr Thurlbeck was active at the newspaper when it published a story about football executive Gordon Taylor, who later won a substantial payout from the newspaper.

Do you have a story about football in your life that you have always wanted to share with the world?

... Good it is a complete load of crap, very anti- Arsenal and perpetrator of ridiculous stories about football that it never seems to be called to account for.

Not exact matches

It's not hard to write a story about a family sitting around the dinner table, or the man on the football pitch, or the child conquering a challenge.

The way this story is written is akin to writing a story «about» Football that mentions the tail gate parties, the various jersey colors, etc but wouldn't say anything about the BASICS of the actual sport itself.

I do nt care for football and the last story i want to read is about football?

After a few football anecdotes and a story about how he recently got his wife to forgive him for ignoring her needs for 32 years, McCartney describes the moment God spoke to him about racial reconciliation.

Love recipes with a story, my husband and I were talking about «the football season» just the other day.

So plenty of people have had their say about him being a waste of money and a flop in English football, but these OPta stats in a Metro report tell a different story.

All the football world, including Man Utd fans, knows that Mourinho needs a good moan in order to exist and if nothing is there to moan about, he will create a story out of nothing.

In Fort Hood young Robert also found a way to entertain his parents: When he was about eight years old, they say, he would stand in the front yard and throw a football as high as he could over their one - story house, and then race around to the backyard and catch the ball before it hit the ground.

Respected French journalist Julian Laurens recounted a story on the Totally Football Show podcast this week about Ben Arfa's time at Hull and what he made of the players he was working with.

You will, and you'll be remembered as the person who died in some crappy cave because you read it in a story you read online about sentient 178th - century space probes who watch football all day, even though the most handsome character in the story completely interrupted everything to explicitly tell you not to.

I'm not familiar with the hierarchy of a pro football team, but in Fallen Idols (Nov. 21), your story on the waning fortunes of the St. Louis Rams, I read about an owner, a team president, a general manager, a director of football operations, a director of football administration, a president of football operations and a vice president of player personnel.

ESPN's Instagram made the mistake of calling Mark Dantonio «Mike» (Houston Rockets coach) following its story about the sexual assaults from the basketball and football programs and MSU's cover - ups.

Whether it's a long drawn - out novel from your mate about his recent footballing endeavours, the unbelievable story of how Blackburn won the title in 1995 (yes, they actually won the EPL title), or that moment in history when Eric Cantona tried kung fu on a rabid Palace fan, there will always be stories from the past that allow us to reminisce about how great football was back then.

We are here to discuss the football, and the fact that you put this as the first comment on a story about Iwobi and Elneny makes it even more annoying.

He has not been playing as regularly as he expects and stories are circulating about him wanting to leave the club in search of regular football.

As for the hoary old story about the financing of the stadium, that was not the only way of «responsibly» financing a football club's development.

I've heard stories about NCAA football negotiations where somebody during a caucus got up to go to the bathroom, walked down the hallway, looked in the room next door, and there was a guy with a stethoscope against the wall.»

But what will be a big deal for the media and the football pundits to start rambling about is if Arsenal lost the match, a shocker punch by Lincoln doing a giant killing act to the Gunners will be loved by the media and the football pundits as they will have a selling story to start writing another round of anti-Wenger articles and do another round of anti-Wenger punditry.

Because of their successes together on football fields and basketball court, the stories were most often about the Webster Brothers.

When I became a sportswriter, I joined the Pro Football Writers Association and enjoyed writing about football because readers devoured the Football Writers Association and enjoyed writing about football because readers devoured the football because readers devoured the stories.

Nike released a really cool 5 + minute commercial just in time for the World Cup called, «The Last Game,» an animation story about risky football versus safe football.

Most football fans know the outline of his amazing story by now: Griffin was born with amniotic band syndrome, had his left hand amputated at age 4, and, despite that, grew into a two - time All - AAC selection and 2017 second - team All - America at a position where players use their hands as tools on just about every play.

Draxler has also spoken about his wish to play club football with Mesut Ozil as well as internationals, so if the stories of Ozil being ready to sign a new deal and stay in north Lomndon are correct, there is a great chance of us being the next destination for Draxler.

@Midkemma in the previous article you said Giroud is world class and has talent.Are you really sure about that?I don't think he has talent or is world class.Arsenal is the team making him look good.Stick Giroud in an average team and he won't stand out.Forget the stats for a moment because there a lot of players out there who people say are average but according to stats the story is different.Giroud is an average player like it or not.It's not his fault though.That's just how football is.

There are a few Arsenal stats going around the football media at the minute that should have every Gooner excited and optimistic about the season ahead and although statistics do not tell the whole story by any means, they are generally a pretty good indicator.

And as far as Auba is concerned, no deal is going to happen, purely because the story about him is fabricated by Arsenal football club, in an attempt to hide the fact that we sold Ox, Walcott, Le Coq and Sanchez, with only Mkhitaryan coming in.

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

It is quite rare to see many positive stories about Arsenal in the football media, especially at the moment when we have finally failed to make the Champions League under Arsene Wenger and have started the news season poorly and sit down in 12th place in the Premier League table.

But because had this Premier League game followed directly on from the last Premier League game, we would have had a chance to investigate not just the relative strength of the two teams, but some of the underlying principles that give football — and the stories we tell about football — its shape.

The great growth of the Fellowship came in the»60s under the aegis of a controversial Texas salesman named James Jeffrey, who could reduce an audience to tears by sharing with it a soupy story about a young football substitute who has a blind father.

For Colin Kaepernick, who will turn 30 on Nov. 3, having already passed for more than 12,000 yards and run for more than 2,300 yards since arriving in the NFL in 2011, the story of his football career seems to have veered into one about what athletes can say, or not say, or do, or not do.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

While there are plenty of big football stories to talk about like the problems of Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City, red cards, elbowing and much more, Redknapp's top priority is to highlight a pretty paltry protest from the fans.

He used to share stories with me at Michigan about how as a youth he kept individual statistics on his batting average in baseball, scoring average in basketball and touchdowns in football.

There have been all sorts of stories about and praise of the Frenchman in recent weeks because of the amazing 20th anniversary as Gunners boss, but his latest trick could be even more remarkable than his trophies, doubles and even the invincible Premier League winning season in 2003 - 04, because Wenger has managed to get a Tottenham player enthusing about the brilliant football that Arsenal play, as reported by the Evening Standard.

Moral of the story: When football is being played, don't forget about your old friend that helped you make it through the summer... time to make some big bucks betting baseball.

The only story you need to write about is why there are so many football clubs being issued with winding - up petitions by HMRC.

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But this image, for me, tells the story of Arsenal football club as it currently stands, or, at the very least, what's still good about it.

As Pako Ayestaran walked through the gates of Melwood for the first time to start his new role as Liverpool's assistant manager back in 2004, he could not have known that one of the greatest football stories ever told was about to unfold.

Having sampled the atmosphere at and read the stories after a variety of games recently, Pat Nevin writes about football when the competition is hot...

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Yes, that story was true, but I didn't read in Carragher's book anything about Neil Ruddock — the worst professional footballer I have known in terms of looking after himself.

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