Sentences with phrase «taking every game by the scruff of the neck like»

Of course it would have been great if Xhaka had come to north London and hit the ground running and was winning Man of the Match awards every week and taking every game by the scruff of the neck like our old captain Patrick Vieira used to do, but realistically it was unlikely to happen.

Not exact matches

Mkhitaryan rarely takes the game by the scruff of his neck — in the way the likes of Eden Hazard and Alexis Sanchez have done in the past.

I'd like to see him take games by the scruff of the neck and show everybody why he's worth the # 89m paid for him.

But Matic is a huge fan of the France international although, like Mourinho, he would like to see him use his qualities to take more games by the scruff of the neck.