Sentence examples for opposition player from inspiring English sources

1. Asking for an opposition player to be booked.

He was sitting next to me at a football match and shouted 'faggot' at an opposition player.

Five minutes without allowing an opposition player to do one of the hardest things in football – score a goal?

"At the end of the series, the head coaches are each allowed to choose the opposition player of the series.

"I stood in the way of an opposition player who gave me and my wife a mouthful of abuse.

Owen Coyle, the former Burnley, Bolton and Wigan manager, said: "There used to be a time when if an opposition player was terrific he would be applauded.

Mourinho went to the aid of the opposition player, helping him back to his feet with a reassuring pat on the back.

"Honestly, if anybody was out of line it was me and I apologised to the opposition player that I was out of line to," Clarke said afterwards.

When Jose Canseco was announced in his first at-bat, the crowd cheered the opposition player, delighted, obviously, to see so famous a ballplayer in their midst.

"Is this a trick question?" wonders Stephen Campbell, still doubting that any opposition player has outscored United's own defenders at Old Trafford.

Watching his team lose to Sheffield United he identifies the opposition player who did the damage: "Had enough of Willie fucking Carlin, hard little Scouse bastard.