How To Use Football In A Sentence

Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Which of them will prefer football and which the ant nest, we'll have to wait and see.
Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.

My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
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We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
Your studies will suffer if you play too much football.
He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
We're trying to bring along several promising young football player.
Football has been rocked by allegations that up to eight top bosses have been caught up in a bung scandal. The Sun
I lived only two blocks from high school and grammar school, and there were baseball diamonds and football fields.
However, visitors from outlying areas to attend football matches will contribute substantially to the local economy of the cities mentioned above.
They don't really need the conversational crutch of football, but they engage to connect with their colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.
The council's own footballing heroes successfully defended their title in the European Municipal Cup in St Malo, France.
How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude.
We were visiting homes and hospitals to see football fans who had been badly burnt. Times, Sunday Times
I feel proud to come from a footballing family. The Sun
Nash has already been approached by several pro football teams.
Who ever thought people would see Arsenal as the acceptable face of football?
That's what makes football ... the greatest is the violent side. Clinton Portis: Crackdown on hitting could make game less exciting
In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
After all, Scottish football teams have constantly demonstrated their ability to demolish our dreams without external assistance.
They had a football match to raise cash for the hospital.
In fact, this was a players' production, as most Cowboys performances, and frankly most football games, are.
IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music. The Sun
He showed his athletism by becoming the Bearkats 'all-time leader in total offense with 6,159 yards and finished second in the nation in the Football Championship Subdivision with 354.2 total yards per game as a senior. Undefined
No mean feat when you consider the total area of the arena covers more than five football pitches. Times, Sunday Times
Football clubs have been busy in the close season transfer market.
American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
Scottish football journalists continue to write about the success of last season.
Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
He drives a top of the range Mercedes but has not indulged himself with a fleet of the sort of flash cars favoured by some in the football world.
He left all his money to the town with the stipulation that it should be used to build a new football stadium.
Football is an interesting battle of brain as well as brawn and in the final term significant changes evolved in each team.
Two blocks beyond our school was a field where boys played football.
His gentle introductory tone modulates into a football coach's pre-game pep talk.
Which football team do you support?
For big-time sports programs and the Ivies, winning football games does not translate into increased giving rates to the institution.
The university is clamping down on media access during his summer booster club tour, and publicity flacks are shielding the most available man in college football.
This is about football -- about two six-team divisions and a title playoff to share the spotlight on what has become championship Saturday. StarTribune.com rss feed
In 1999 a new question was inserted into the survey: were there ‘too many players of foreign origin in the French football team?’
Young footballers who copy the bad behaviour of their professional heroes are receiving adult-size bans.
Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing.
It shows how football has come to occupy a central place in the networks of global power. Times, Sunday Times
Football was number one but he had also done athletics, basketball, volleyball and cricket.
The whole country seems to be in the grip of football fever.
He is one of a platoon of French intellectuals praising the game as a noble art compared with the selfish showmanship of football. Times, Sunday Times
I like games in general, and especially football.
His demeanor, though somewhat guarded, is more small-town high school football star than newly minted teen heartthrob. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 18TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
They let the crowd throught the entrances 2 hours before the football match started.
THE man who went undercover in an attempt to expose the bung culture in English football was keeping a low profile again yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
EUROPEAN football chiefs are heading for war. The Sun
Football's most elemental rivalry was providing the defining classic of the genre.
Ed came over last night to watch the video of the football match that I'd recorded.
In a country where universities emphasise competitive sports sometimes even more than academics, Notre Dame, in Indiana, was long the paragon of undergraduate football excellence.
He was selected on the team of Centenary announced five years ago and is regarded as one of the finest footballers ever to grace the Gaelic fields.
FOOTBALL may be the beautiful game, but at times it can be horribly cruel. The Sun
The line should allow the Seahawks to play smash-mouth football when the game situation or weather dictates.
Behind the easy-going persona is a thoughtful man with a razor-sharp football mind. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the football, especially in the opening half, was decidedly moderate.
Do you watch football on television?
Ian Rush believes a willingness to defend from the front has helped Fernando Torres become the top striker in English football.
After he retired from football he became a sports journalist for the Gazette.
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
Manchester City football club's old warhorse, still fighting fit at 36, was sent off for fouling after half an hour.
This continues into adulthood, when we wear the colours of our football team and observe the customs of a religious group. Times, Sunday Times
A football match gives no excuse for wanton violence. The Sun
Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
The boys went off to play catch with a football as we set up lunch and then waited for the fireworks to arrive.
Playing football is all I want to do and playing football in England is perfect for me.
He came within inches of a hat-trick and saving his side from defeat at the hands of the greatest collection of footballers ever assembled on one team.
How he overcomes this crisis will determine his entire future in football. The Sun
The club faces expulsion from the football league.
The bad news for football fans is that none of the home nations will be competing. Times, Sunday Times
I'm very disappointed that he let that happen in the football game. Times, Sunday Times
Obviously the manager gets stick, rightly or wrongly, but that's just the way football is.
He was always a real football man and could join in with us footballers of the time quite comfortably on the subject of football. Times, Sunday Times
Besides, I behooved to be round the hirsel this morning, and see how the herds were coming ontheyre apt to be negligent wi their footballs, and fairs, and trysts, when anes away. Chapter XXV
People see this larger-than-life character who jokes but he takes his football very seriously. The Sun
David Gorwood explained that the Rugby Football League had introduced a new rule which stated that clubs had to have two distinctive kits in different colours for home and away games.
This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
We whomped our arch rival in the season's climactic football game.
Plan a neighborhood kickball or touch football game.
And a chance for punters to land a knockout blow on the last decent day of football punting until August. The Sun
Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
That football is the way we want to play, open and expansive. The Sun
The answer is that the clubs lay at the heart of industrial Lanarkshire and football was pre-eminently the game of steelworkers, miners and shipbuilders.
That year he was named the nation's No. 1 college football star.
Other footballers find a way to reintegrate themselves into the sport and recover their lost reputations.
Our mascot has been a popular figure at matches and events outside of football.
The former England captain made his reputation as a prolific goalscorer and allround champion of attacking football. The Sun
People who took football too seriously aroused deep loathing in me.
With modest knowledge of football form, his computer model was originally built to help him win an office sweepstake.
This is deeply worrying for anyone who likes a punt on football. Times, Sunday Times
The way Mike dealt with his injury was the turning point for our football team.
Total Football was more pronounced in the days where the great Johann Cruyff was the talisman of the starting XI, but it still hangs out as an overarching tactic employed by theDutch. The Volokh Conspiracy » World Cup 2010:
He also had a long association with a company making ties, which gave him a poor opinion of the dress sense of the modern footballer. Times, Sunday Times
Yet as Liverpool prepare to face Manchester United in the FA Cup for a match in danger of being more poisonous than for a long time, football's long, progressive battle against racism is suddenly spotlit again. Onus on clubs to prevent ugly spectre of racism rearing its head again | David Conn
He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
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When you're a professional footballer, you expect people to take a pop at you now and again.
Then you expect those who are leading football to go in the same direction of fair play. Times, Sunday Times
Outside my home children play football and rounders within very close proximity to the houses and cars.
Even the worst footballers' perms of the 1970s could hardly compete.
They'll both end up with peerages for distinguished service to British football/fashion and people will laugh at their youthful misdemeanours.
Scots producers with a yen to make TV shows about footballers should phone Channel 4's Julian Bellamy.
This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines. Archive 2009-04-01
The obvious answer is for football to police itself. The Sun
He is cut out for a football player.
In Mthatha, there will be a youth football tournament, a "heroes marathon" and a seminar to celebrate not only Mandela's 90th birthday but that of another African National Congress veteran Albertina Sisulu as well. ANC Daily News Briefing
There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
Final whistle on ugly face of football? Times, Sunday Times
It is no longer enough to be a beer pong champion - you must also be proficient in flag football and volleyball.
In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat.
Brazil's football team was heralded as the magicians of football.
And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football.
Missing from the AFB's list are premeal snacks for the noshing and grazing you'll do throughout the day—there are three National Football League games on Thursday, after all—and beverages, including wine and beer again, there's football to watch. By the Numbers: 2009 Thanksgiving meal cheaper than last year's
Murdock is taking on an expanded role of football development manager, while Wood takes his first step on the coaching ladder and will be assisted by Paul Penrice and Martin Oglanby.
Whenever a young footballer goes off the rails, these ‘survivors’ are always wheeled out to sermonise about the dangers of addiction.
New court markings will allow sporty students to play basketball, netball and football indoors.
Lloyd Spotted Wolf, head football coach at Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla., says it's good for "ego-centric" coaches to be around students "that really do not care if the football team wins or loses, or even know when there's a home game. This Professor Looks Familiar
Once more top-flight football has been cast into the street along with the garbage. The Sun
A community forum was held last week to discuss the effects and consequences of joining the new alternative football league.
But if football people can only have one, then when they set partisanship aside, they go for beauty. Times, Sunday Times
At every football game on TV, we can see dozens of sideline photographers resting their heavy telephoto lenses on a monopod.
This year'snational college football championship was won by Princeton.
THE best footballing nations in the world come from hot countries who play all year round. The Sun
The mill was packed with football shirts, fabrics and yarns ready to be sent across the world.
A football signed by Brazilian ace and World Cup winner Rivaldo is set to be auctioned off to raise funds for the York City Supporters' Trust.
He's jogging round the park every morning in an effort to get fit for the football season.
A nifty footballer and a dab hand at catch and chase, Matthew admitted he thought he was going to lose her after she had an operation for a dodgy heart.
It's all well and good playing lovely football but you have to be prepared to battle. The Sun
When he played football, he probably wore a chin strap made with a coconut shell.
In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat.
The admission of the Brisbane Bears and the West Coast Eagles into the Victorial Football League was the most significant step in the stuttering progress towards a national competition.
Having the dog is a great interest outside football. The Sun
And on television bulletins, viewers were first treated to how England rugby union had caned Canada which was about as exciting a tussle as Chelsea taking on Chertsey in football.
She is used to mixing with footballers. The Sun
Only at the mention of football did the face of the guard soften. Times, Sunday Times
As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.
Footballer Joe Cole has been announced as a new patron of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
I had heard of Arsenal, the football (or soccer) team, by watching television, and now I understood: St. Marylebone was obviously an 'Arsenal' school. Hooman Majd: An American Wog on July 4th
The ostensible reason for his absence was illness, but everyone knew he'd gone to a football match.
FEW football columns exhibit the interest in footwear that this one does. The Sun
Dynamic football is more en vogue than dainty. Times, Sunday Times
But the Phillips pick was a bigger risk than the football world likes to admit.
Football hooligans ran riot through the town.
Despite the deluge of World Cup promotions and advertising campaigns, Walkers' heavy spending and football tie-ins appear to have cut through the advertising clutter.
Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
Others changed and went off for a game of football on one of the manicured lawns. Times, Sunday Times
Her football and sporting activities stopped and she was left hobbling around on crutches. The Sun
Even in an arena as illogical and playful as football, my faith in modernity, science, and rationality remains unshaken.
Our local football club may fold unless it gets a cash injection .
The wider operation around a football match is unquantifiable. Times, Sunday Times
When I kicked the football against the post, it bounced back.
They have replaced quality players with youngsters who are not yet ready for first team football.
But it was her romance with the married footballer which last year thrust her back into the spotlight. The Sun
Mercredi dernier, la France a obtenu sa place pour participer à la prochaine Coupe du Monde de Football. Retirer - French Word-A-Day
The biggest world stars play football because they love the game, but through that life, fabulous riches can come with it. The Sun
Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage told The Post's Steve Yanda that one of the main reasons the expanded conference schedule has become more appealing is the rising costs of "guarantee games," that teams from BCS conferences use to fill out their non-conference schedules in football and basketball. ACC athletic directors consider expanded conference schedules
They've had a big win on the football pools.
You want people who enjoy being footballers. The Sun
Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
But the oldest maxim in football is that goals change matches. The Sun
Rugby is now more popular than football or volleyball. Times, Sunday Times
He seems quiet but reveals his true character on the football field. You can also use either word to talk about an example of something that has all the important qualities it should have:She was his first real girlfriend.
He'd been a footballer too, with Orient, and that was a great ice-breaker for me.
Driven by the desire to avoid injury and get back to the serious business of club football, half the team usually play at half-pace and the other half get subbed at half-time. Tip of the Day
The tragedy changed football stadiums, but it has become a horrible history consigned to the past. Times, Sunday Times
The recent travails of the England football team have finally proved too much to bear for the maker of their kit. Times, Sunday Times
He walked across the frozen reservoir to retrieve his football but the ice gave way, plunging Luke into the water up to his waist.
At the east end of the playing fields there would be a £500,000 floodlit all-weather football and hockey pitch.
When another timetable clash meant she had to choose between football trials for the national team and the national cross-country championships, she opted for athletics. Times, Sunday Times
Oliver Kay, Football Correspondent, and James Ducker.
His season on the pitch has not been too eye-catching but his selfless act in donating the receipts of his testimonial game to children's charities is one of the greatest things a Premiership footballer had done this season.
It is fast becoming a finishing school for fledgling footballers. The Sun
The Pro Football Hall of Fame member, now 73 years old, recalls the spartan Marion County coal camp of his youth, where his teachers Mrs. Hornyak and Mr. Wolfe made lasting impressions. 59 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
For him, football is an absolute religion.
We could spend hours considering our cultural reluctance to treat football management as a proper job. Times, Sunday Times
Shouts of "Howzat!" resounded across a Beijing football pitch as Chinas cricketers battled yesterday for victory in the first final of the National Cricket Tournament.
I am tired of the strong stance that they want to take with football without helping the conference in other sports.
Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt. Times, Sunday Times
The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
I was a kid who just found a gym or a ballfield or made a football game with the neighborhood kids.
Moreover, it's responsible for inducing a leaguewide abandonment of the most entertaining play in football: the long bomb.
Among other old boys: Johnny Giles writes a regular football column in the Daily Mail.
Unfortunately, his vendetta against us will only serve to ruin football for the masses. The Sun
When he was supposed to be playing football he used to watch the parent birds taking stuff to the nest.
Well, reasonable enough: the only football pitch in existence is simply unavailable.
The project has already been kitted out with 400 footballs, 14 goals, bibs, cones and ball sacks.
Professional football and basketball, which had also been racially segregated, integrated at the same time as baseball.

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