Sentences with phrase «whose last cup»

This is the same team that got preferential treatment for years because they provided a spot to an AHL level hump who just happened to be the son of one of the NHL's top brass and whose last Cup was partly the result of refs decisions to punish Vancouver for supporting Burrows in his spat with Auger.

Not exact matches

Speedy Hall of Fame center Keon was a brilliant all - around player whose modest numbers (3 goals, 8 points in 12 games) belied his defensive contribution to the last Cup - winning team from Toronto, which defeated the rival Montreal Canadiens in six games.

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the bookies have got this one right, as the men whose job it is to predict the most likely outcomes have installed the Gunners as favourites to win the FA cup again in May, retaining the trophy that we won last year at Wembley to end the nine year wait for silverware.

this man is so self - absorbed... does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us... does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The 19 - year - old, whose deal with the Red Devils expired in June, made his senior debut for Sir Alex Ferguson's side last September in a Carling Cup tie.

There are plenty of international games still to be played and this Arsenal fan will not be able to relax until the last ball has been kicked by our international players, most likely by Alexis Sanchez or David Ospina whose nations both play World Cup qualifiers in the early hours of Wednesday morning in South America.

«Our basic is always to finish in the top four and then win a trophy on top of that,» said Wenger, whose FA Cup success last term ended a nine - year trophy drought.

Borussia Dortmund head to the Serie A sales If the scribes at Gazzetta dello Sport are correct, the Westfalen club are about to make a 10 million euro offer to Napoli for right - back, Juan Camilo Zuniga, the Colombian whose wayward challenge on Neymar at the last World Cup put the Brazilian star in hospital with a fractured vertebrae.

Hodgson went on to last as the England manager until the World Cup 2014 when he was replaced by Sam Allardyce, whose reign at the national team lasted only for the one match.

Real then paid # 60m for the services of the 42 - cap international in 2014, whose first of two goals against Uruguay in a 2 - 0 World Cup last - 16 win that summer was voted Goal of the Tournament.

Adam's transfer request couldn't have come at a worse time for Blackpool chief Ian Holloway, whose charges are not only facing a formidable Manchester United side on Tuesday night but are also in a poor frame of mind following four defeats in their last five league games, five in their last six in all competitions if you include their 2 - 0 defeat in the third - round of the FA Cup to Southampton.

Gavin, whose PIRTEK Enduro Cup campaign will be supported by Hire A Hubby, said: «I'll be trying to use muscle memory from last year's visits to Sandown International Raceway, Mount Panorama and Surfers Paradise to reacclimatise to the circuits, the driving techniques and the style of racing you typically see in Australian V8 Supercars.

With 100 million 16 - ounce servings of cold - pressed juice being sold in the U.S. in 2015 alone, as the article states, that's a ton of plastic cups and straws whose life span lasted mere minutes, only to linger indefinitely in landfills and waterways.