Dearest members of Manchester United, Being a captain of this football team is a bit like being father of the groom at a wedding, seeing players come and leave. Certainly if we dined in the style we are dining tonight we would all be plump. It's hard to believe that another season has come to an end and the time has come again for our annual end of year speech. Whether it’s been a glorious success or a dreadful disaster. Each one of us has had our failures and sorrows meanwhile we also have our achievements and joys during the year. We are all, in some way, a little different than we were this time last year. We’ve had a phenomenal season with our successes and also our problems and we’ve learnt some valuable lessons. When I stood here …show more content…
Remember the time we played football at Wembley, the dream stadium of every football player’s career. The tension was gradually getting more and more intense, and the pressure is building up. We were sitting in the dressing room waiting to go out onto the pitch. We lined up and walked out to the pitch. The crowd cheered thunderously. Eighty thousand people were seated in the stadium and millions more watching the FA Final on tv. Looking over the stands I saw the sea of red making continuous waves. Thousands of Man U supporters traveled miles to watch this FA cup …show more content…
We were pushed back and were desperately defending Chelsea's fierce attack. Fortunately the ball hit the post and thanks to some fantastic saves we were still in the game. The game kept going and no sign of a winner. We marked Chelsea man to man and chased the ball everywhere even when our energy was drained; this was certainly going to be a penalty shootout. During our penalty, David dominated the crowd’s attention. No one can bend it like Beckham and GOAL! I. The crowd went wild and we were the champions! Man U forever! It's fascinating how football is played all over the world and to very different standards. It's unbelievable how ordinary people everywhere can have so much fun out of a simple game. Most of them will never enter competitions. Yet we are a group of very privileged talented people who have the extraordinary potential in football, carrying a special mission to deliver a fascinating, well-played game to the world. This is where our friendship begun. Although I may be a football star, but I also call myself a poet, and if I may…here is a self written poem dedicated to everybody in Man U. We enjoy football, playing matches winter spring or fall. Players laugh and sometimes cry, sometimes fed up but they always try. The referee fouls you, but you never meant to. But your abilities are true; you are precious friends of Man
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The author covers the most prevalent groups and events relating to football. Some of them are pep rallies, marching band, cheerleaders / pep squads, spectators / ex-players, and the brains / farm kids / nobodies. The pep rally is a school-wide event,
…There was no question of celebration in the minds of the fans who invaded from the West end of the ground. They had violence in mind and no sooner was it offered than it was returned with enthusiasm. The brutal and disgusting scenes which followed as bottles flew and drunken supporters charged and counter-charged from one end of the field to that other, brought disgrace upon the two clubs concerned, upon Scottish football generally, and were an affront to Scotland as a nation (Murray 196).
It was my final moments as a Chelsea High School cheerleader. My final banquet had quickly approached. It was then that I realized I was not ready for the season to be over. I stood in front of my friends, fellow cheerleaders, and their families as they watched and waited for me to recite my last words as the season came to an end. It took hours for me to write about what my teammates and my coaches meant to me. I did not want to sound too nostalgic since I’m not the emotional type, but I also did not want to come across as indifferent. It was a difficult task but I knew I could accomplish it.
The problems and injuries that come with playing football have been obvious since the beginning, and to this day are still being discovered and researched in hopes of finding solutions so that the sport is not so dangerous. Malcolm Gla...
It may surprise you to know that, as a youngster, Tim was a superb football player and if it wasn't for pubs opening all day he may very well have turned professional. For two seasons I played along side Tim in defense for our local village side. He got me into the team and on my first game, said: ‘OK, Jason - here's how this works. You do all the heading and tackling and, when you get the ball, give it to me, I'll take it up the field and score.’ Tim finished up top scorer that season, netting twice as many as our centre forward. But we finished bottom of the league and conceded an average of eight goals a game. We once lost a game 22-1, and guess who scored our goal.
In the long history, the club has won most trophies for First Division (prior 1992) and England Premier League (EPL) with 20 trophies in total. For FA Cup, Manchester United shared record for most cups with Arsenal with 12 times. The team has also been crowned 3 times the European Cup / UEFA Champions League. (Manchester United Trophy Room) The most successful season was the 1998-1999 when they won “The Treble” (EPL, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League in one season) “thanks to the emergence of some special home grown talent, namely Gary Neville, David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt joining Giggs in the mix.” (Smith par.2) In that unforgettable season, the team managed to score 128 goals in 63 games, averaged 2 goals per contest. “Manchester United also become the first English team to head the International Federation of Football History and Statistics ' top 100 teams thanks to their amazing 1998/99 season.” (“Manchester United 1999 the Treble”
In winning the Champions League, which is considered the most prestigious club competition in world football, it was a personal achievement for Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United with a truly global impact. The build up to the final was sensational, but nothing could compare with the drama and theatrics of the final game played against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain. In the 3 additional minutes of stoppage time, Manchester United made history, by scoring two late goals in quick succession breaking the German hearts. The euphoria and emotions of the win were indescribable. This victory clearly silenced any criticism against the team or manager and unanimously recognised Manchester United as a force to reckon with. It was incidental the final was played on Sir Matt Busby’s birthday, who was a legendary football manager of the club and a survivor of the Munich air disaster, which added even more emotion and purpose to the game. Sir Matt Busby and Munich will always be linked with the history of Manchester United.
From the early ages in history to the present day, sports have always been an important part of society. It teaches discipline, how to be a team player, how to interact with others and is a good source of physical activity. In specific, football utilizes all of these aspects of sports and it’s a great source of teaching self-restraint and perseverance. Some may say that football is a violent sport or it’s not beneficial in any way, but in reality it gives a person the basic tools needed not only for playing the game, but also how you interact with people in society.
Five or six kids who don't look old enough to remember a time before foreign managers at Anfield stand on tiptoes on the wall of the house opposite the entrance to the most famous training ground in English football. They've been here all day claims the steward manning the gates. Never mind the fact that their parents probably think they're in school, they're here, mobile phones poised at the ready, to snap Djibril Cisse leaving in his Hummer. Twenty yards away, leaning against another wall, are two men hoping to collect autographs from players who, with the exception of possibly Maurico Pellegrino, are probably younger than their sons.
ho could resurrect their team back to victory. This demonstrates how pointless and futile their lives are and the extent to which football is the basis of their existence. Bruce Dawe has victoriously ridden the foe of any dignity. He has ridiculed the supporters circuitously and shown the reader how we can become so involved in something that we no longer recognize the beauties of nature and life. This in turn encourages the reader to change his or her life and to try and reach a balanced lifestyle.
There have been various stadium disasters in the history of the United Kingdom that have occurred as the result of inadequate security and crowd control, a lack of stadium laws and guidelines, and poor ground designs. But it wasn’t until the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that measures were taken to avoid the recurrence of a similar event. In April 15th, 1989, British history recorded one of the worst sporting catastrophes the country had ever seen. Following a sequence of failures and errors 96 men, women and children were crushed to death, and another 776 were injured, on the terraces of Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club’s home stadium, during the fateful FA Cup Semi-final match between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forest FC.
Introduction: "I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint"-- Pele.
Manchester United Football Club (ManUtd or United), nicknamed "The Red Devils" is one of the greatest and most successful football clubs in the history of the Barclay 's Premier League (BPL) and football history alike. Its home stadium "The Theatre of Dreams" is located at Old Trafford Manchester, United Kingdom, and according to a recent research conducted by Research Company Kantar, United has a fan base of 659 million fans worldwide.
Though he had already stopped playing football after his teary high school graduation ceremony, I still wished he could resume his football career. When I was small, I repeatedly waited for him at the front door of his school while stretching hard to reach my dad’s big and balmy hands. He was already the leading player in the school’s football team, and had played at the position center-forward while being fully enclosed by his opponents. Nevertheless, even in these worse situations in the matches, he could still drag the ball to his teammates like a meandering snake. After the training that day, we were invited to the match by the enthusiastic coach with his large lively hands. Though sitting in the farthest seat to the pitch, I could still feel the current of passion rushing from every player on the field towards me, which left me infected with more desire to crush the rival. I detected him on the green sea filled with white clothing by searching for the zebra-like cuff he wears in every match he has attended. He seems to be dedicated to many beliefs I had never thought of before. “For me, this cuff is a symbol of my sweat I sprinkled for this one game. This faith will follow me to finish this game, and every other game.” The words had appeared on a luminous morning in his apartment before the match. The harsh wind sliced his dense and thick hair backwards into few scattered pieces while his eyes still gazed at me like a leopard waiting for his