Sentence examples for old knockout from inspiring English sources

Events surrounding the fourth-round draw for the grand old knockout competition last Tuesday have confirmed the sorry state into which it has declined.

"Sure, poor teams used to get into the old knockout competition, but they didn't usually find themselves still playing in it come December.

Finally this week, a quick look ahead to the fourth round of the Challenge Cup, which contains enough intriguing ties to eclipse ongoing doubts over the format of the grand old knockout competition.

Well possibly, and certainly the grand old knockout competition has been considerably refreshed in recent decades by the involvement of more amateur teams, plus the French flavour provided this year by the Super League hopefuls of Toulouse as well as the Catalan Dragons.

The reduced SOCE that we observed in both young and old knockout mice may therefore result in less efficient activation of eNOS and thus explain the reduced relaxatory response to CCh, despite an enhanced Ca2+ response.

He recognises that the 108-year-old knockout competition represents the best chance for a club from outside Super League's big four - Leeds, Bradford, Wigan and St Helens - to end their oligopoly, although he argues that an appearance in the final at Cardiff in August would lift Hull on to that rarefied level.

The F.A. Cup is soccer's oldest knockout competition, dating to 1871.

It gave some pride back to the world's oldest knockout competition – and gave the Sky Blues a hiding too.

Here were two clubs, founded in 1887 and 1899, fighting it out for the right to appear in the final of the world's oldest knockout competition.

MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND — The F.A. Cup, the oldest knockout tournament of them all, was founded on the belief that playing soccer could settle any score.

The world's oldest knockout cup competition is to return to the BBC after an absence of seven years, as part of a deal for the FA Cup in which it will share the rights with new entrant BT Sport.