Sentence examples for fouls from inspiring English sources

"He is an amazing player, sometimes the opposition tries to stop him with fouls, but we play in a contact game, so it is only natural.

Ramos committed five fouls and those were the ones that were given; there were as many again that weren't.

Some said there were 50 fouls, some 54, but everyone agreed that the home side had broken the record for most rule violations this season.

1-0 down in a minute, there's no story … There were few fouls, few bollocks, and that hurts me.

Of course a football game is full of contentious incidents – every time a foul is awarded or a challenge goes unpunished there are usually people arguing that the decision was incorrect – but the point of appeals is to clear up potentially game-changing decisions, fouls leading to goals, for example, or situations where a manager might want to challenge a red card.

I have observed in many matches that professional fouls are being ignored by referees and that there's a lot of grabbing going on.

Against Atlético, they committed almost twice as many fouls as their opponents.

The tournament that was supposed to eradicate cynical fouls and general unpleasantness ended with Codesal surrounded by protesting losers.

They came to the final with a long list of previous convictions, having committed more fouls (152) and received more cautions (19) than any other team in the tournament.

Eight days later Manchester United won an FA Cup tie at Norwich and Cantona, infuriated by the opposition's tight marking, committed several reckless fouls.

They did not even offer much of a fight, committing only four fouls by half-time.