How To Use Footballer In A Sentence
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Pop stars, TV soap actors, footballers and celebrity chefs have taken the places of dukes and earls in our modern social pantheon, for better or worse.
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Still, we managed to beat Italy in the first of a sporting double-header in which our footballers will shortly travel to Italy for a World Cup qualifier.
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How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude.
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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.
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IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music.
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Young footballers who copy the bad behaviour of their professional heroes are receiving adult-size bans.
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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.
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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.
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He was always a real football man and could join in with us footballers of the time quite comfortably on the subject of football.
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Other footballers find a way to reintegrate themselves into the sport and recover their lost reputations.
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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.
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When you're a professional footballer, you expect people to take a pop at you now and again.
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Even the worst footballers' perms of the 1970s could hardly compete.
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Scots producers with a yen to make TV shows about footballers should phone Channel 4's Julian Bellamy.
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Whenever a young footballer goes off the rails, these ‘survivors’ are always wheeled out to sermonise about the dangers of addiction.
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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.
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She is used to mixing with footballers.
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Footballer Joe Cole has been announced as a new patron of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
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Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
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But it was her romance with the married footballer which last year thrust her back into the spotlight.
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You want people who enjoy being footballers.
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He'd been a footballer too, with Orient, and that was a great ice-breaker for me.
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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.
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It is fast becoming a finishing school for fledgling footballers.
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As a Gaelic footballer he was as uncompromising as he was skilled.
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He used to be a semi-professional footballer and expected so much of me.
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But a sizeable chunk of those who do happen to be footballers.
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At one point a wag from the crowd shouted ‘Is there a footballer in the house?’
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She is also quick to point out that there's more to her than just being a footballer's girlfriend and spending money on pink velour leisure suits.
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Such a glamorous home is a perk of the job for a wealthy international sportsman, the kind of holiday hideaway that footballers have long enjoyed.
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You don't spend 18 years listening to yarns about footballers without knowing when to take a bung with good grace.
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There is a general presumption against England's footballers.
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There great footballers are revered, and, crucially, are measured by the prizes they have won.
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Lillak sprinted around the track with undisguised joy, arms upraised like a footballer, as the spectators went mad.
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In the good old days before footballers could do no wrong they would have been greeted with a shower of rotten fruit and tomatoes.
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Most first-class footballers are natural athletes.
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Lallana is such a bright footballer, able to tailor his work to the needs of the situation.
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It must feel like that for the town's footballers as they make their own painful trawl around Britain.
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As a footballer his great asset was his calm, phlegmatic manner.
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It'The Premier stats that show an inverse correlation the amount of can earn and of making it as a footballer.
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The former footballer is now mixing with movie people in Hollywood.
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Some fans seem to regard footballers as divine beings.
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Or is it the case that footballers have generally been poorer and thus their life expectancy is lower?
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The filthy rich footballer is not playing at the moment after picking up an ankle injury.
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Modern footballers have been so pampered and spoilt from such an early age that they have lost all sense of proportion, dignity or manners.
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It'The Premier stats that show an inverse correlation the amount of can earn and of making it as a footballer.
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Barcelona footballer Ronaldinho is an absolute revelation for taking the game to a different level.
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The bowlers, camogie players and footballers are also in the middle of a busy season so there's plenty going on in the community at the moment.
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You don't spend 18 years listening to yarns about footballers without knowing when to take a bung with good grace.
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Yet the world's most expensive footballer was always quietly confident he would have the last laugh.
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He bought the drill and spent the rest of the trip flourishing it like a footballer with the World Cup.
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Meanwhile, Saskia's family are thought to be trying to persuade the semi-pro footballer that she is just playing games with Maxwell and their relationship isn't serious..
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The Professional Footballers' Association-linked sportswear firm has even offered £50 for the best mankini photo.
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Now mention a trip to Cyprus to a young footballer and immediately certain images are conjured in their minds.
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He's a good footballer but he's not very aggressive, not very belligerent and I'd like to think that with 20-odd caps he'd be a bit more aggressive than he is.
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Graham Kavanagh is another trier but he, too, is a journeyman footballer.
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However, the story of trials and tribulations faced by two footballers, again failed to win the audience.
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He would rather be judged as a professional footballer than by the forgiving standards of a convalescent.
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The owner, who looks like a playboy footballer, keeps guests entertained with a succession of anecdotes, culinary disquisitions and impromptu bursts of song.
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The accident just about finished him as a footballer.
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Mitchell supplemented his ring earnings with work as a carpenter and Blake became a pro footballer.
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Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long.
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If there was one thing all would-be footballers wanted to do it was play in the final at Wembley.
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We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
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A footballer today told how he was beaten up by a gang of thugs who left him unable to play for his team.
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Who says footballers get paid too much?
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This is my fourth match in four days - footballers start whingeing about being tired if they're involved in more than one a week.
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My advice to any footballer at a great club would be to enjoy your time.
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He was my right-hand man, my lieutenant on the field, a cool, calculated footballer.
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Players' union boss Gordon Taylor today backed plans to test footballers for designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, vowing: ‘We have nothing to hide.’
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Those who have argued for years that footballers are overpaid may soon have their moment.
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United are confident they have more skilful, mentally stronger footballers.
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After years of following her footballer hubby around, the tables have turned.
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He's a great painter, footballer, man, etc.
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Do you truly believe your views of the quality of a footballer hold any weight compared to those of legends of the game such as Cruyff and Zidane?
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The higher the system is tuned, the more likely it is to break down: true of racing cars, racehorses and footballers.
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As we sit and talk today, he mentions another aspect of his life that runs counter to the image of the stereotypical footballer: his love of philosophy.
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This entire generation of footballers get it in the neck for their conspicuous inability to solve differential equations.
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When are we going to be mature enough to recognise that footballers earn their money from free exchange?
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To continue the footballing analogy, it is like asking footballers to sign a formal declaration before each game that they will not cheat and will always play fair.
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But there is a special thrill in watching a young footballer facing a challenge and emerging triumphant.
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Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
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Perhaps footballers are the only people who double as heroes and villains within the very same subculture.
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An Australian film crew were making a documentary on Asian footballers who play in Europe.
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To spend a few days among the Olympic footballers was to see plainly that the Argentinians enjoyed the democracy of it more than, say, the Italian squad, some of whom fussed about transport and food.
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Gashes and knocks that would put a professional footballer out of action for weeks tend to be shrugged off.
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Also from sport comes the word ' galactico ' to describe a top-class footballer playing as part of a star studded team.
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They're certainly not as overpaid as some footballers.
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THE only way to punish and stop footballers using abusive language is for their clubs to suspend them and stop their wages.
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She arrives just as a stolen car leads to a footballer suspected of playing away.
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This precarious financial position is largely because footballers are the most successful workers in the land.
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Footballers and all sportsmen alike are entertainers, just like singers and actors.
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When are we going to be mature enough to recognise that footballers earn their money from free exchange?
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He was a great footballer, but has failed miserably as a presenter.
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Or is it the case that footballers have generally been poorer and thus their life expectancy is lower?
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But for every new-found friend ready to stand a drink at the bar, there is a wisecracking motormouth, resentful of a footballer's many blessings, fervently determined to downsize the over-inflated ego attributed to all players.
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She claimed footballers were contributing to pupils swearing and answering back in class as they copy what happens on the football pitch.
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SHE spends her days sipping champagne, splashing the cash in designer boutiques and mingling with footballers.
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The Dromard No.14 is indeed a fine footballer but caught a real tartar in Knockbeg full-back Paddy Kelly, whose tackling, harrying and blocking continuously frustrated the Longford ace.
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His achievement, along with consistent high-level performances, meant Lampard finished second behind Barcelona's Ronaldinho in the European Footballer of the Year poll.
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The chance to pit your wits against the best players in the country, in the most sumptuous and atmospheric of football arenas, just doesn't get any better for a professional footballer.
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That his endless permutations jar the sensibilities of lavishly paid footballers is hardly in itself a cause for complaint.
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Coming from a footballer in his prime, however, with two small children and a third on the way, the expression undergoes a vigorously literal restoration.
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Footballers like joining ambitious clubs because ambitious clubs have lots of money.
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Remic's new book BIOHELL is due out November 2008, and is about what happens when vanity nano-technology goes horribly wrong, and turns a full planet of vain footballer's wives into quite horrific zombies.
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That is what happens when you turn young men into millionaires in a city where they receive so much adulation just for being footballers.
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The judges included footballers, a referee and a rhythmic gymnast.
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But it was her romance with the married footballer which last year thrust her back into the spotlight.
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Comparing footballers' mental strength with ours is like comparing their fitness levels with ours.
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And given the attempt by the footballer's lawyers to restrict the sales of Rooney's Gold, the loathsome book about his life and times written by the equally feisty BBC hack John Sweeney, Wayne might also reasonably ask why, when the frighteners have been put on WHSmith and Waterstone's, his own employers – Manchester United – are selling it on the club's official website United Direct: £16.99 for the hardback he detests.
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The filthy rich footballer is not playing at the moment after picking up an ankle injury.
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Equally, a modern-day footballer has more sinister issues to deal with.
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Ger was also a highly skillful footballer and produced some skillful displays with his school teams.
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The footballers are close pals and were spotted at a hotel pool party in Miami in July.
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Footballers gossip about schemes elsewhere and often cast envious eyes.
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The police seem incapable of stopping that, so why would they be bothered about a millionaire footballer?
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The secretary of the Footballers' Association said there were already heavy punishments available to discipline footballers.
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But it was her romance with the married footballer which last year thrust her back into the spotlight.
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It's refreshing to see two minted footballers favouring campsites to luxurious destinations.
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The Connacht club footballer of the year had gone to hell and back since injuring his knee less than two weeks previous but sheer persistence and guts enabled him to play his part for the remaining quarter of the match.
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They resemble circus clowns more than footballers.
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With 11 senior players – including the long‑term absentees Nemanja Vidic and Darren Fletcher – occupying the Old Trafford treatment room the phrase "positional rotation" has assumed a whole new meaning as United's fit squad members are asked to pretend they are Ajax-type "total footballers".
Manchester United adopt 'total football' approach to injury problems
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Lallana is such a bright footballer, able to tailor his work to the needs of the situation.
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The solar system belongs to footballers, film stars and billionaire industrialists.
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Leixlip wanted to remember Matt Goff, a famous footballer from the 1920s, by naming a bridge after him.
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• A comment piece yesterday about the departure of Andy Gray from Sky Sports incorrectly stated that Richard Keys quizzed Jamie Redknapp about a woman called Louise, whom it labelled the footballer's "wife".
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They resemble circus clowns more than footballers.
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Despite his lack of stature, he became a successful footballer.
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Peter is a keen footballer in his spare time.
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Footballer David Beckham is one of the most sexy and attractive men on the planet.
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American footballers wear shoulder-pads for protection.
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But now it is a vital part of the modern-day footballer 's recovery.
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Footballers have a huge impact on young people, which is why his behaviour cannot be condoned.
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Bill idolizes his big brother, who is a professional footballer.
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We were treated to an exhibition of the footballer's speed and skill.
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It'The Premier stats that show an inverse correlation the amount of can earn and of making it as a footballer.
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He walked into the team of that tournament, yet is never even mentioned as a potential Footballer of the Year.
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When you're a professional footballer, you expect people to take a pop at you now and again.
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Football fans would lose out if a salary cap caused footballers to ply their trade in other countries.
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My father was a footballer, having played for Shelbourne and Bohemians, and was a big influence on me.
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At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move, a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.
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Top footballers make regular appearances on TV.
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Rage has powered him to greatness as a footballer and rage has made a complete eejit of him.
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Even chemical and drug estimation in the blood, especially in the case of heavy-duty industrial workers and suspected doping footballers, can also be determined in just a few minutes.
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Footballers gossip about schemes elsewhere and often cast envious eyes.
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We are no longer shocked when a footballer goes down under a challenge to win a free kick or penalty.
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Footballers have not auditioned to be role models and, in many cases, do not wish to be role models.
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It was a nightmare. I mean for a footballer, for anyone that loves what they're doing, to be unable to do the thing you love is just a handicap.
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The young footballer collapsed in a heap after a heavy tackle.
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Commiserations to our footballers who were defeated in their eastern Intermediate semifinal on Saturday evening in Fenor against a stronger De La Salle side.
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The footballer is likely to receive a three-match suspension following an incident in yesterday's game.
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It must feel like that for the town's footballers as they make their own painful trawl around Britain.
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Rarely do you see a footballer with such a combination of pace and power.
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There are a lot of sly, cunning footballers on planet football.
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Footballers can rejoice that hernia repair is now quicker.
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They themselves have fallen from grace in recent years, with the exploits of their junior footballers taking most, if not all, of the limelight away from the hurlers.
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He's living proof that footballers can still play at the highest level into their late thirties.
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I thought last week's performance by Cris was the worst I'd ever seen by a professional footballer, but he's surpassing himself tonight.
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The sight of a footballer collapsing lifeless on the pitch is one of the most chilling and terrifying you are likely to see.
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Now he's getting compared to Pele and being called our greatest ever footballer.
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Footballers have not auditioned to be role models and, in many cases, do not wish to be role models.
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But those are all qualities you need to be a good footballer.
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The once-revered footballer is no different from any other alcoholic with a past.
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Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers.
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Footballers are like politicians - many are overpaid and more often than not they do not manage their exit from the stage very well at all.
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I think he's the greatest footballer out.
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The most common performance-enhancing drug used by footballers in recent years has been nandrolone.
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The Sun reported that a loaded gun legally owned by the footballer was found at the house.
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And Britain's most expensive footballer made his by now customary impact on the match with one hugely deflected shot and another saved easily by the keeper.
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The world would be a happier place if these footballers stopped rubbing our noses in their obscene wealth.
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The fans' player of the season last time around, the tall Argentinian with the hayrick hairstyle is a cultured footballer with a coolness that belies his Wildman of Borneo appearance.
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The second delivers a special exemption for footballers, making it easier for them to procure work permits.
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The footballer is likely to receive a three-match suspension following an incident in yesterday's game.
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Footballers take note - you could follow his example and behave in a gentlemanly way.
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They gained a footballer with intelligence and one or two faintly bohemian qualities.
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If we compare ourselves with the likes of footballers and celebrities then no wonder we look at our pay packets and feel short-changed.
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There are a lot of sly, cunning footballers on planet football.
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He is the chief executive of the English soccer players' trades union, the Professional Footballers Association, whose cell phone was hacked by a private investigator hired by News International.
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Given the propensity of other footballers for losing millions in creative investment schemes, perhaps he could pop into a nearby bank for some advice.
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It's not ideal because he is a good footballer and we want him on that pitch.
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It will not surprise you to know that he has two brothers and they were good footballers.
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Condemnation Hateley is hard evidence that footballers, and maybe especially strikers, thrive on strength of mind as much as body.
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The former footballer will front a new television sports quiz.
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Yet what if from the age of 16 customised prep work was part of a footballer's routine?
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Those who have argued for years that footballers are overpaid may soon have their moment.
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I'm nearly 31 and that's getting on a bit for a footballer.
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It is the day-to-day life of the footballer that makes marriage difficult.
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Footballers can rejoice that hernia repair is now quicker.
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A tall, athletic footballer, he is good in the set-piece and very mobile - a player in the mould of Scotland's Scott Murray.
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But he admits his pastime is in contrast to that of the stereotypical modern-day footballer.
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The combative mockney is a keen footballer and hat tricks have been celebrated with less verve.
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Fifteen minutes after they trooped out of their dressing-room, disconsolate, shocked by what had unfolded, the footballers were still trying to come to terms with the reality of their situation.
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He said we never got on and were obsessed with who was the skinniest and going out with footballers.
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He'll be remembered both as a brilliant footballer and as a true sportsman.
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XXL is also the size of shirt that most American footballers wear
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But the reality of most footballers' lives is job uncertainty and penny-pinching to ensure there is enough money put aside for that rainy day.
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United also revealed that it had paid a total of £5.5m to footballers' agents involved in player transfers over the past 12 months.
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If rock stars, actors and footballers can behave like that then why not highly paid city dealers?
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Footballers have a huge impact on young people, which is why his behaviour cannot be condoned.
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Notable absentees also include footballers and rugby players.
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