Sentence examples for continental players from inspiring English sources

Continental players don't get this stick.

"That is not the same with continental players," he explained.

Another Frenchman manages Liverpool; an Italian, with continental players outgunning locals, fires up Chelsea.

He soon realised that the continental players had a different attitude from those in England.

"Now most of us have left and it seems like the club is going the other way round and bringing in established continental players".

Simon Kuper, a football writer, says that the best English teams' increasing reliance on continental players and managers emits a subliminal pro-European message: "Continentals aren't bad people.

In the eyes of what I suppose amounts to tens of thousands of readers, I have somehow become S, the cross-continental player treading softly on giant feet.

In an attempt to bring parity to the Ryder Cup, the format was changed in 1979 to broaden the British team to include continental European players as well.

Aside from Madrid and Barcelona, however, there appears to be no continental destination where English players want to play.

But the comprehensive nature of Juventus's progress to the last eight should not detract from the contribution Celtic made to the tie and the eye-catching work undertaken by Neil Lennon and his players against continental opposition since they set out in the Champions League's qualifying stage seven months ago.

There will have seemed little continental allure to the players when they were obliged to return for pre-season training early.