Sentences with phrase «time league finishing»

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Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

Yeah but the reality is the to thing are closely related, If Wenger stays we won't win the league or the champions league any time soon.For us to win these type of trophies a top coach must come in, there aren't many who can achieve this but i believe 2 good candidates are out of work Ancelotti and Klopp, Wengrs contract should be finished by the 2016/17 season god willing.I say God willing because Wengers been talking about how he doesn't want to retire, obvious signs that he wants an extension to his contrct, i am one Arsenal fan who doesn't want to see an extension

Wenger is just trying to gain some time and hopefully finish his contract with a series of top four finish because winning the league or the CL is just an aim to far... Basically a total and utter impossibility.

So it is the first time in ten years that Arsenal have gone unbeaten in the Champions League Group Stage and finished top of the group, and will go into the knockout stages full of confidence for a change.

The best he has been able to do since that time is to finish 2nd in a league run where all our big rivals flopped, the path was paved and we lost to Leicester.

It would be hard to argue that we are assured to finish above the Blues, but should we get our form back on the up, we still have plenty of time to earn a place inside the Champions League places.

Rodgers seems to be slimming down his squad after finishing a disappointing sixth in the Premier League last time round.

Arsenal are set to face arguably their biggest game of the season at the Etihad this weekend, and it is not just for us to finish above Man City and clinch the usual Champions League quaklification, but also to stave off Tottenham finishing above us for the first time in Arsene Wenger's reign at the Emirates.

This campaign sees the Merseyside club struggling to qualify for the Champions League after finishing second in the Premier League last time round, and Sterling has admitted both will be difficult to replace.

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

On the Oxbridge Tour of the Ivey League a team comprising solely Oxford runners beat combined teams from Harvard / Yale and Penn / Cornell, the first time a British team had finished the tour unbeaten in that event.

Last year, they finished as Runners - Up for the second time in the Co-Ed League and they've been awaiting their chance to avenge that loss..

They finished the Regular Season at 15 - 3 which is no joke for their first time around in the Hoops League.

The Cougars made the playoffs last season for the first time in a decade, doing so as the No. 10 seed, finishing with a 13 - 15 overall record and a 4 - 8 mark in the Mission Valley Athletic League — good enough for a mere fifth - place finish.

I just don't know what's wrong with Arsenal fans.Sure I get it as humans we all have our preferences but things start to look funny when we begin to bash and criticize a player like he's useless.I just don't get why Arsenal fans do nt want Vardy.Oh is it because he's not world class, he's English, He's not a big name, he's a fairy tale, you feel all he does is run, he's not got a better history in footballing until now or you feel Giroud is better or what?I really pity Arsenal fans honestly.I would've taken Jamie Vardy in a heartbeat.Sure he's not the best option out there.But I'll say this and say it again it's not a world class striker that wins you a league but rather just increases your chances of winning the league.If you've watched Arsenal clearly from the time since Henry left you realized that it's more of not being able to find a clinical striker.Eduardo was not a already a finished product when he started his career here yet he was clinical and was on world class form until injury.What Arsenal need now is a world class finisher if they can't get a world class striker.

The Gunners boss finished outside the Champions League places last season, the first time his side have failed to do so in his 21 - year reign with the club.

But Spurs and their long suffering fans will probably be happy about the recent comments from Campbell on the current title race, reported by Metro, because he reckons it could be heading towards the first time since Arsene Wenger took charge that the spuds finish above Arsenal in the Premier League table.

The player is blessed with brute power and blistering pace to go with lethal finishing skills and a knack of being at the right place at the right time and most importantly, he is proven in the Premier League.

Indeed De Rossi has collected five Serie A title runners - up medals and of late has seen the club even secure Champions League football, last term's seventh place finish cost Luis Enrique his job, and arguably this could be the right time for the tough tackling midfielder to consider a new challenge.

Time will tell if he can rediscover his form and start to silence the critics in the coming weeks as United could certainly do with him helping them in their pursuit of silverware and a top - four finish in the league.

The season ahead promises to be an exciting one for City with the club competing in the Champions League for the first time after finishing third last term.

The first time he did it the side were undefeated in the league for the whole campaign and on the third time he smashed the Serie A record, by finishing with 102 points and 33 wins.

We all should realise that Arsenal with the current regime are now just an upper mid table team who maybe can win a cup.It will make life easier if you accept this and put away any ambition of winning the league when in reality we are fighting Everton for 6th place.What will finish Wenger in the end is apathy, empty seats and less time being shown on the telly.

After averaging a league - high 13.5 boards and finishing fifth with 2.71 blocks, Mutombo was named Defensive Player of the Year for an NBA record fourth time.

Giroud reminds me a bit of Dimitar Berbatov, as a matter of fact I am wholeheartedly convinced Giroud is Berbatov in disguise, because he is the only striker I have witnessed who can go more than two months without a goal and finish amongst the top 3 strikers in the Premier League, completely similar in style, both very classy finishers, brilliant hold up play they are also both lazy as hell and occasionally turn up in random clusters of games which 80 percent of the time are worthless in the hopes of winning any silverware, but do just about enough to convince you that they are better than they are.

The 04/05 season was the last time we even managed a top two finish in the league, and Arsenal haven't faired much better in Europe, having not even made a quarter - final for six years!

I do nt quite understand your holier than though, soap box rhetoric but if you honestly believe the three abovementioned strikers are capable of leading us to Premier League and European titles than you probably need to spend less time lecturing Arsenal fans and a few additional minutes celebrating our 3rd place finish and embarrassing CL dismissal by Monaco.

It would ultimately end Wenger's fantastic record of qualifying for the Champions League in every season that he has been in charge — something that some fans would argue has kept him in a job at Arsenal in recent years — and while it may be caused by a technicality, it would add more fuel to the fire of suggestion that Wenger's time at the club is finished.

Just to give the game an extra edge, as if it needs it, Ramsey spoke about the 21 years that Arsenal have finished above the spuds in the league, alluding to the fact that they blew it big time last season.

The Dutchman was talking about how finishing in the top four of the Premier League was his primary focus for the season, as our own manager has said many times.

To be honest the season is 3 weeks old and i have had enough already cos i know nothing is going to change 3rd or 4th finish quarter finalist champs league and a decent cup run who can be excited about that its the same every season the club has lost its ambition and until that changes this will just continue season after season at this moment in time i hate being an arsenal supporter and having followed them for over 30 years i never thought i would ever say that!!

He went 10 - 6 with a 4.95 ERA in 27 starts — the only time in his pro career that he finished a full season with a winning record — and led the Pacific Coast League with 157 strikeouts.

The clubs were 12th and 13th in the table at the time, and from the looks of it, most supporters could have never imagined that an afternoon at White Hart Lane could produce one of the most amazing second half finishes of the 2007 - 08 Premier League season.

The time to hesitate is through, sang Jim Morrison of The Doors, and if Arsenal are to break on through to the other side and actually win a Premier League title rather than the Wenger trophy of finishing in the top four Champions League places, I think the same is true for the Gunners.

The Serie A side finished sixth in the league last season, but they have come under severe financial pressure this time round.

maybe the players sense this this and the uncertainty of it all getting to them, really wenger needs to come out and say if he is going or finishing his contract for certain, then get knuckling down with the players and really crack the whip on them as he is running out of time to win the league, he should be behaving like a man possessed to win things on the way out.

History will repeat again Arsenal will be knocked out of UCL round of 16 Arsenal will be 15 points behind City in January We will finish 4th by beating Bournemouth on final day Third time lucky if we win FA cup or League cup Arsenal players will celebrate 4th by doing selfies and fans will say In Arsene We trust and Jack will say on bus pararde what do u think of tottenham?

Last time round he waited til the league finished didn't he.

However, we don't and haven't and the opportunity that has arisen in the premier league this season which will likely never come again has slipped through our fingers yet again with the very real risk of Spurs finishing above us for the first time and also perhaps winning the PL.

One of the all time great goalkeepers of the Premier league, two players who finished second with France at the World cup.

The winger joined the West - London side from Barcelona 12 months ago, but will not have enjoyed the best time, with the club having fallen from winning the league one year, to finishing a lowly tenth place in his one and only campaign in England.

i was very impressed with coquelin but we could all see the way newcastle was fowling him im worried it only a matter of time before his injured so we need suffcient cover arteta is ok but if something happens to coquelin (i pray it doesn't) where his out for a couple of games arteta can not play a bunch of games for 90 mins all the time so im hoping arsene is looking at a DM has we speak also on theo, to be fair to him he actually did ok great movement but it brings me to think that giroud and walcott can play together in a 442 formation because giroud can provided the hold up play for walcott to make runs and walcott can make the runs to allow space for giroud if walcott has gioroud finishing and giroud walcott pace we properly would be with man city at the top of the league

When the old guard led by David Dein sold us the vision, we trusted them to make it happen, we voted with our wallets, Kroenke came in and stole, and is still stealing that dream from us with Wenger as a convenient scape goat while our commonwealth is being raided, the sad part is that the situation has seen the spuds steal the template of that dream, and so far so good for them, a bigger club would have implemented it faster though but still, they are on course and at this rate, while we watch after our coffers, a small pub team like the spuds will overtake us, for the first time in the Premier League era, they finished above us, a situation not conceivable previously, shows how much the institution Arsenal has deteriorated in recent times.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

No major trophy for 13 years and counting Last time we even saw a QF in the CL was a whopping 7 years ago We almost never challenge for a major trophy Wenger couldn't even get close to winning the league even when all rivals finish below him Wenger keeps picking a weak starting XI, especially for really tough games Wenger loves keeping rubbish players at Arsenal for as long as possible

The simple fact is, he wouldn't have been at any of these clubs any measure of time finishing 3rd or 4th and round of 16 in champions league.

They were two quick - fire goals which sealed victory AND a Premier League finish above Arsenal for the first time in 22 years.

This season has been a torrid one for our club and with us on course to finish outside the Champions League places for the first time in forever, as well as with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez looking likely departures this summer, Bellerin may also be considering his future.

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the moment you figured out spurs is in a decent position to win the league now that vary will miss, the moment you figured out spurs feature striker is 10X better then the one we have been forced to watch for 4 years who flaps his arms every time in the box, the moment you figured out you may not finish in 4th place, this is as bad as it gets for us... if this year does not provoke serious change, then nothing will