Sentence examples for nasty challenge from inspiring English sources

Cumberbatch admits, with humour and considerable passion, that the riots were a nasty challenge to his natural liberal principles.

His red card in Madrid followed a crude body-check on Jorge Valdano – retribution for a nasty challenge by the Argentinian, who is now Real's director general.

Grade: 2.5 Ricardo Carvalho Extremely nasty challenge on Ronaldo resulted in a yellow card in the final minute of the first half.

Once the action on the pitch finally got underway, Milan had Riccardo Montolivo sent-off early-on by Premier League referee Howard Webb after a nasty challenge on Christian Poulsen.

"Kevin Nolan shouldn't have lost his cool but obviously he did and Stewart Downing is in hospital having his Achilles and calf stitched up from a nasty challenge from Flanagan," he said.

Cantona responded with the kind of nasty challenge which would been a straight red now but which in those days usually ended with the commentator observing that the offender was fortunate not to have his name taken.

I know as well as anyone that certain players can be targeted and that you have to draw the line at reckless, nasty challenges that are genuinely dangerous.

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.

There were a few nasty challenges going in".

The situation was compounded Saturday when left back Neil Taylor suffered a concussion after a nasty aerial challenge from behind from West Brom's Peter Odemwingie.

The Norwich captain, Grant Holt, was lucky to escape punishment for a nasty looking challenge on Chico Flores in which he stamped down on the defender's shin.