Sentence examples for organised match from inspiring English sources

As for luck, Nathaniel Chalobah did not play an organised match until aged nine, then he did so by chance and was instantly signed by Fulham, later joining Chelsea.

The ICC, however, is thought to be vexed by Amir's decision to play an organised match so soon after his ban was imposed – particularly in England, the scene of his, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif's misdemeanours last summer – and so may well decide to increase the suspension it imposed.

Chris Baker, former chairman of The Western Front Association and author of The Truce: The Day the War Stopped is also skeptical, but says that although there is little hard evidence, the most likely place that an organised match could have taken place was near the village of Messines: "There are two references to a game being played on the British side, but nothing from the Germans.

Most also played street or cage football, as well as organised matches.

For some reason he wasn't allowed to play in the league at first, so the club organised matches for him to get used to his new team-mates.

A full explanation of the Cas ruling, which still prevents him from playing "organised" matches but now allows him to take part in all "football-related activities", will be published at a later date.

For the first two years of the club's existence, the players organised matches among themselves at Snaresbrook near Epping Forest, possibly on land owned by the Earl of Mornington.

However, the truth of the accounts has been disputed by some historians; in 1984, Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton concluded that there were probably attempts to play organised matches which failed due to the state of the ground, but that the contemporary reports were either hearsay or refer to 'kick-about' matches with 'made-up footballs' such as a bully-beef tin.

In previous seasons, the English cricket administrator and former captain Pelham Warner had organised matches between the RAAF and various English military teams as an expression of defiance against Nazi air raids, and the Victory Tests were a continuation of this, although the matches were only three days long and did not have Test status.

And for anything we put in, we organise match-funding from the private sector".

More English clubs are keen to organise matches on foreign soil following confirmation that Wasps will become the first Premiership team to stage a competitive match outside Europe when they face Harlequins in an LV Cup match in Abu Dhabi on 30 January.