Sentence examples for bad challenges from inspiring English sources

"Are you saying all the bad challenges were from us?" Chris Coleman asked afterwards in a defiant, bristling press conference.

That will have been a worry for Hodgson who saw his side cope with some bad challenges in a match that featured seven bookings, three of them for England.

Both were bad challenges, with the worst being Joe Ralls's horrendous foul on Ilkay Gundogan, a studs-up rake down the back of his ankle that was punished with only a booking.

England's barbs about the Croats' conduct in Zagreb last September have also enlivened Croatia – "We've been reading those quotes about some bad challenges in Zagreb on Joe Cole and [Theo] Walcott, but if you've been watching Croatia for the last 20 years, we are not a team that plays dirty with nasty challenges," Bilic said – and of course September's 4-1 defeat itself.

"The Spaniards are being ruthless and cynical and if we are not careful, from what we have seen already, I am afraid the game will go on to be a disgrace to football". "I saw Miguel Alonso kicking lumps out of Martin O'Neill near the corner flag, there were a lot of bad challenges between Jose Alesanco and Miguel Tendillo and myself and Billy Hamilton.

(Side note: I have to say that despite all my piss and vingear and vitriol about bad challenges and designers without oomph and personality, these speeches did affect me and made me realize how hard they all have been working).

We're not defending anybody if they have made a bad challenge on the field.

"I can admit it was a bad challenge," Cissé told television after being sent off.

"I'm aware it was a bad challenge but it wasn't nasty.

The referee comes over to book Harding for a bad challenge on Longhurst.

That was a bad challenge which should probably have brought a yellow card.