How To Use Cup final In A Sentence
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In 1988 I was fortunate enough to be at Wembley to watch unfancied Wimbledon's notable FA Cup Final victory against Liverpool.
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Because, as well as the build-up being all new and a cup final being new to most of the players, so too was a cup final defeat.
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He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
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They lost the 1977 World Cup final to Australia by a single point.
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Germany will next play the US in the quarter-final of the World Cup finals on Friday.
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Germany are playing against Brazil in the cup final tonight.
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His short-handed goal has the potential to end up the biggest goal of this Stanley Cup Finals.
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Christophe Ena/Associated Press Rennes 'Fabien Lemoine, left, vied for the ball with Guingamp's Wilson Oruma, right, during their French Cup final soccer match at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, May 9.
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Back in 1971, the mercurial Alex Murphy pulled off a minor miracle when unfancied Leigh toppled red-hot favourites Leeds to win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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Liverpool are in the frame for a place in the Cup Final.
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Although the defender hasn't played for them for three years, he still clings to the hope that he might yet make it to the World Cup finals.
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Torres, after all, has suffered enormously with injury during the past 12 months and damaged his thigh and adductor muscle during Spain's World Cup final win over Holland on July 11.
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These moments of disquiet congealed into a continuous nagging worry when I went to my first World Cup finals in Argentina.
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Both clubs are used to Twickenham cup finals and a fine encounter is in prospect.
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Their future will depend on the result of Wasps' game next weekend in the European Cup final.
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I managed to score a couple of tickets to the World Cup final.
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The short-term answer: play the FA Cup final and England's warm-up match against Mexico a few miles away at the Emirates, where the groundsmen seem to have no trouble producing a flawless surface.
Riot of goals makes compelling case for the defence
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A C Milan lost the Italian Cup Final.
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It is questionable whether the venue of a European Cup final is central to the occasion or incidental.
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Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined.
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Alas, one of the biggest came in the 1994 World Cup final, when his penalty miss handed the trophy to Brazil.
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Just how far I have come from my days of respecting Motson was confirmed yesterday where he destroyed all enjoyment of watching the cup final with his mediocre tattle.
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Christophe Ena/Associated Press Guingamp players celebrated their victory against Rennes after their French Cup final soccer match at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, May 9.
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Four-and-a-half years after losing the Uefa Cup final to Sevilla in Eindhoven? and Steve McClaren to England?
Gordon Strachan running out of time to revive Middlesbrough's fortunes
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For the first time in a World Cup finals, lots had to be drawn to decide who would finish second and third.
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But he would gladly swap it for a place in the Heineken Cup final.
The Sun
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Taylor wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
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However, that year, when Brazil and France entered the World Cup final, the two often engaged in heated arguments on the winner.
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They re-ran the World Cup final on a big screen.
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Soccer fans converged on the capital for the cup final.
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Nick Farr-Jones said Cooper was a "boofhead" idiot for repeatedly targeting McCaw and warned that his actions could backfire should the Wallabies meet the All Blacks in next month's World Cup final.
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ARGENTINA are known for their flamboyant play but three of their last four goals at World Cup finals have come from corners.
The Sun
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Jack was on the pitch for his school in the Senior Cup Final.
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The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final.
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To look ahead is to identify a worrying number of obstacles between Scotland and the World Cup finals.
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Hampton had to survive a nervy six minutes of added time (presumably for time wasting, substitutions etc) before being able to celebrate an Easter cup final appearance.
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This fact did not prevent the Evening Times on Wednesday giving over the majority of their back page to the 22-year-old's non-appearance in the Scottish Cup final.
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According to your esteemed colleague Jonathan Wilson, Alania will play CSKA in the Russian cup final on 26 May, despite having failed to score so far in the competition three x 0-0 + pens, one walkover," writes Nath Jones.
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December's Davis Cup final will pit a visiting French team that has won the title nine times against one that had not won a world group tie until March of this year.
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The Paraguayans race off to celebrate what would have been the 2,000th goal in a World Cup finals… until the flag goes up a good 30 seconds late.
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I am absolutely appalled at your barracking for England tomorrow night in the World Cup Final (Wallabies vs England).
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Here's the Knowledge's 2007 precis of the story:The all-conquering, efficient Iceland a case of taking symbolism too literally meet bare-footed and mercurial Zaire in the World Cup final – and the evil Iceland manager plots the downfall of Zaire's star player, Odiwule, who can, apparently, bend the ball 90 degrees.
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This columnist recalls hitch-hiking to Italy to watch Scotland tackle Costa Rica in the 1990 World Cup finals.
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As with any team facing an Old Firm member in the Scottish Cup final, the script reads that you turn up, do your best, but prepare for a hiding and the consolation of a loser's medal.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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It is Everton who have been playing a cup final every week, all season long.
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In the 2004 Asia Cup final, India enjoyed a one-goal lead against Japan at the same venue.
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Last season's cup final experience with Dunfermline still prompts an involuntary smile.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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Realistically, the national team that has ended Zambia's treasured record of seven straight appearances at the Africa Cup finals would have found themselves not only ill-equipped for the Tunisia job but also untalented.
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The FA Cup Final's audience climbed to 12.3 million.
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This was the game when he was destined to score his first goal of the World Cup finals and prove that there was an end product to the explosive bursts he had produced against Argentina.
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England had talked about that game as if it was their World Cup final.
Times, Sunday Times
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He ran superbly from full-back and banged over seven goals as Leigh secured their place against Salford in the Arriva Trains Cup final.
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Soccer fans converged on the capital for the cup final.
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I carried a hangover from my club situation into the World Cup finals.
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The team has fought its way to the cup final.
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Greece moved a step closer to the World Cup finals with last night's win.
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He received the original ban last week after stamping on the referee's foot during the supercup final.
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Here is the story of one of the great cup finals of recent times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Airships regularly landed there bringing tourists from abroad to enjoy the facilities and the area has also hosted a round Britain air race, football cup finals and an international boat race.
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Both the US and beaten World Cup finalists China are among the eight teams invited to play in the event, which includes hosts Australia and Brazil.
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Playing "My old man's a dustman" would probably not harm anyone, might even increase the enjoyment of the cup final, but that's ntot the point - there has to be a valid reason for playing it.
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Like the national football team we are showing an uplift in international rankings, but are still somewhere short of World Cup finals qualification.
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He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
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The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
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It's the FA Cup final next week.
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Last season they had a point to prove and they did just that, going unbeaten through their league campaign and then trouncing Grange in the Scottish Cup final just 24 hours after the Edinburgh club had been crowned Premier League champions.
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It was a result that also gave the coach, in charge of his native Brazil in 2002, a record 10th straight win in World Cup finals.
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The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
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FAZ was arranging friendly matches with Ghana and Burkina Faso, both qualifiers to the Africa Cup finals.
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Both of West Germany's goals in the 1974 World Cup Final resulted from long moves from deep, which surely would have been stopped by a better-organised defence.
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Mine was to referee the World Cup final.
The Sun
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Sourav's men may have faltered at the World Cup finals but camps like these do hint at a team that is busy broadening its vision and strengthening its sinews.
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They will be rowing in the lightweight coxless four team which finished in the top ten of the World Cup final in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Ajax will take on Juventus in this year's European Cup Final.
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The old French prophet has foreseen England beating Italy in the world cup final!
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I think we have let our standards drop since we beat Rangers and we've had the cup final in mind.
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When Celtic slammed Porto's unsporting behaviour in the UEFA Cup final, they omitted to mention that it was irrelevant to the outcome.
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In Australia, in a match billed as a rerun of the World Cup final just seven months after the event, they lost 15-51.
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Under the much travelled Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic, China reached their first World Cup finals three years ago in South Korea and Japan.
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I think we have let our standards drop since we beat Rangers and we've had the cup final in mind.
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You're gutted if you're not involved in a league game, never mind a cup final.
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World Cup lifting gloom to raise hope for a united South Africa sport to bring people together may have found its apogee in South World Cup final, when Nelson Mandela donned a green Springbok shirt and League title tussle, a different battle emerges on Sunday when Arsenal visit a
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It is FA cup finals day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both clubs are used to Twickenham cup finals and a fine encounter is in prospect.
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They re-ran the World Cup final on a big screen.
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Boyds goal secured his team s place in the Cup Final.
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It was possible that she liked me that much, right up there with my scoring the clincher on Cup Final day.
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Jack was on the pitch for his school in the Senior Cup Final.
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Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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It's the FA Cup final next week.
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Greece moved a step closer to the World Cup finals with last night's win.
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Ajax will take on Juventus in this year's European Cup Final.
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The league is over, so it's all about the play-offs and the Cup Final for London now.
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Beckenbauer coached the West Germans to success in the World Cup final in Italy.
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Prior to the World Cup Final, a helicopter dropped orange flowers from the sky above Museumplein in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where 180,000 Dutch people watched the match.
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If you look closely at the Detroit Stanley Cup Finals roster, particularly at youngsters like Jonathan Ericsson and Helm, it's clear why this franchise is the envy of most teams around the NHL.
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Ajax will take on Juventus in this year's European Cup Final.
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No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.
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The team has fought its way to the cup final.
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Yet in the wake of his greatest disappointment, losing the World Cup final at home in 2003, he delivered a speech to the press full of pride for his own team and honest, ungrudging admiration for the victors.
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For the record, the Brazilian Ronaldo scored two goals in that World Cup final win two years ago.
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Not many recent World Cup finals include dramatic comebacks and winning goals in the waning minutes.
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Under the old format Sale would have strolled to victory in their Jubilee women's Cup final.
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Among his pleasant memories of the club's first sortie into Division 1 was the opening win against Young Munster, and reaching the Senior Cup final.
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Germany will next play the US in the quarter-final of the World Cup finals on Friday.
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The Cup finalists of 1934 promoted brands of trousers, shoe-polish, and Shredded Wheat.
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Here is the story of one of the great cup finals of recent times.
Times, Sunday Times
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How organisers of the 17th World Cup finals would love to send more than just a minor tremor rippling through the country's sporting landscape.
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An ankle injury sustained late in the season for Juventus, restrict Del Piero to a bit-part role in the 1998 World Cup finals.
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1974 stands as a beacon in the sport, when a team of part-time semi-professionals somehow defied the odds and made it to the World Cup finals in Germany.
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Congratulations to the team for their heroic performances and great displays of darts, and good luck in the Charity Cup Final.
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The club, after all, have lost more than £20m in the past three years, despite last season's run to the UEFA Cup final, and have a debt totalling £17.8m.
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As the Worthington Cup final proved, they continue to hold the formula for beating Manchester United.
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The cup final was a clash of age and experience against youth and strong will.
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The World Cup Final was beamed live from Britain to Japan.
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Choi and Koizumi also agreed that Japan and South Korea will promote friendly relations ahead of the 2002 World Cup finals, which they will co-host.
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It is FA cup finals day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Gunners were edged into third spot overall by Liverpool, whose ￡5.8m haul included ￡1.3m for their FA Cup final triumph.
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Zinedine Zidane’s baldhead striking Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest in the 2006 World Cup Final is one of the most iconic images in football history.
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The rubbish left behind by the Cup Final crowd beggars description.
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Wembley in 1979 witnessed the most extraordinary conclusion of any Cup final, and the drama remains etched in the participants' minds.
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It was originally feared that his knee injury would require a lengthier lay-off but a scan has suggested the cup final on March 14 is possible.
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Brian Clough's team, who were the reigning champions of Europe, had just lost to Wolves in the League Cup final.
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But he had a belief on Cup final day that his team were going to win which filtered through to the players and we got the victory.
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A provisional date of has been pencilled in for the York and District Cup final between Selby Warriors and York Groves.
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But the ticket prices compare unfavourably with the cheapest tickets for last year's World Cup final in South Africa which cost £106 and next year's Olympics where seats are available for the 100m final night at £100.
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The Cup Final is an important date in the sporting calendar.
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So he could be forgiven for treating the MLS Cup final as a mere footnote to the end of an unforgettable career.
The Sun
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He finished the domestic season in poor shape and, to general mystification, gave only the haziest impersonation of himself all the way through the World Cup finals.
Losing a player as gifted as Wayne Rooney smacks of carelessness
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Germany is bidding to host the World Cup finals.
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For the first time in a World Cup finals, lots had to be drawn to decide who would finish second and third.
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Umpires David Shepherd and Steve Bucknor join Australians Ricky Ponting, Michael Bevan and Glenn McGrath as survivors of the last two World Cup final deciders.
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South Africa have competed at the last two World Cup tournaments and three African Nations Cup finals.
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With the Premier title already in the bag and the FA Sunday Cup final looming on Sunday, Albion Sports paraded most of their third string for the visit of bogey side Crown.
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Dvorak is the only current Panthers player who was on the Florida club that reached the Stanley Cup finals in 1998.
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ARGENTINA are known for their flamboyant play but three of their last four goals at World Cup finals have come from corners.
The Sun
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Their smiling, happy-clappy welcome to all associated with the World Cup finals even looks a little naive to those of us who have arrived from world-weary quarters of the globe.
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We lucked into tickets for the World Cup finals.
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Spain beats Israel 3-0 to reach Davis Cup final
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The World Cup final is a match that touches almost every country in some way.
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She medalled on all three of these events at the 1998 World Cup finals in Sabae, Japan - her final competition.
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He was a member of the team who won the 1998 Cup Final.
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As for the depth, the team brings up 7 USL Sounders + 1 the USL newcomer of the year from a US Open Cup Final losing club Sounders were 4th, and adds in esence two first round picks.
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One of the more enjoyable moments of a Scottish Cup final is that hour or so before kick-off when you take a gentle stroll around the purlieus of Hampden Park.
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The team failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals.
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In Tanzania, the Swahili coverage of the FA Cup final can be heard on the BBC relays, 94.1 FM in Zanzibar and 93.5 FM in Pemba.
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Greece moved a step closer to the World Cup finals with last night's win.
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But he would gladly swap it for a place in the Heineken Cup final.
The Sun
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Last year's final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium outsold the FA Cup Final that was held in the same venue, which shouts success by any yardstick.
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Getting to a cup final is like a wedding, it s a fantastic day out.
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But he would gladly swap it for a place in the Heineken Cup final.
The Sun
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Soccer fans converged on the capital for the cup final.
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One is that he fielded a weakened team and then won the Challenge Cup final, so I'm sure he feels it was justified.
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Mine was to referee the World Cup final.
The Sun
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The side put an end to the Kiwis' winning ways in Australia, however, when they won the Cup final, having previously lifted the Plate in Wellington.
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He was obliged to miss the Singapore and Malaysian events due to domestic cup final commitments.
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It was also Pittsburgh's first "shortie" in a Stanley Cup Final game since Ed Belfour in Game 2 in 1992.
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The cigarettes will be sold at duty-free shops, hotels, airports, tourist spots and World Cup venues only during the May 31 - June 30 World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan.
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Their resources were lavish, unmatchable: each of their scorers in the European Cup final, Ole Gunner Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham, were substitutes for the pairing of Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke.
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It is FA cup finals day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
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David Beckham is already dreaming of a World Cup final showdown with his Old Trafford pal Juan Sebastian Veron.
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It is no fluke both teams at the World Cup final know how to make an attacker of a defender.
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The Gunners were edged into third spot overall by Liverpool, whose ￡5.8m haul included ￡1.3m for their FA Cup final triumph.
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A C Milan lost the Italian Cup Final.
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The stand-off turned full-back was only 13 when Wigan beat Saints in the 2002 Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield, had not left junior school when Wigan won their single Super League title by beating Leeds in the first Grand Final, in 1998, and he has no memories at all of the club's dominance of the British game in the early 1990s.
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He played rugger for Blackheath and the Barbarians, and association football for England against Ireland in 1901, as well as playing for Southampton in the F.A. Cup Final.
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Stoke's success in reaching their first FA Cup final will not please those who believe that history began 20 years ago, with the founding of the Premier League, or who propound the tiresome belief that the only way to play football in the 21st century is by trying to copy Barcelona.
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He said Zambia needed to prepare hard for all its matches to ensure its first qualification to the World Cup finals, Germany 2006.
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And will tolerate such mistakes as the O'Driscoll try and the cup final throw-in.
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The other might-have-been concerns the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy.
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The team failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals.
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He received the original ban last week after stamping on the referee's foot during the supercup final.
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Here is the story of one of the great cup finals of recent times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greece moved a step closer to the World Cup finals with last night's win.
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Who said the divisional cup finals at Milebush were dreary affairs?
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Under the much travelled Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic, China reached their first World Cup finals three years ago in South Korea and Japan.
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With Rio gearing up to host the 2014 World Cup final and the 2016 Olympics, authorities have embarked upon a so-called "pacification" scheme, permanently occupying over a dozen slums and evicting the drug traffickers' private armies.
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They reckon the pork chipolata mirrors the exact curve of the England captain's famous free-kick against Greece which booked the team's place in the World Cup finals.
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The Cup Final is an important date in the sporting calendar.
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Beckenbauer coached the West Germans to success in the World Cup final in Italy.
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This documentary about Afghanistan's attempt to reach the cricket world cup finals is both charming and revealing, says Peter Bradshaw
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Blackburn Rovers gave themselves a terrific chance of reaching a second successive Worthington Cup final by holding Manchester United to a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford last night.
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Ivanovic and Carvalho will miss the title showdown with Manchester United over Easter and they will remain doubts for the FA Cup final, should Chelsea beat Aston Villa in the semi-final a week later.
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You have world-class players and are blessed to see cup finals and European competition every season.
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So he could be forgiven for treating the MLS Cup final as a mere footnote to the end of an unforgettable career.
The Sun
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Not since the early 1980s, when they reached two European Cup finals and signed European Player of the Year Keegan, has there been such expectation.
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If the Hurricanes fail to make up the difference, it will mark the first time in modern NHL history that neither Stanley Cup finalist from the previous season made the playoffs.
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This is a man who took home the World Cup in Italia 90, and took it upon himself to steer his dark horse national team, a team who many doubted would even make pass the group stages, to the World Cup final in 2002.
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France and Spain will meet in the soccer cup final.
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Beckenbauer coached the West Germans to success in the World Cup final in Italy.
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1974 stands as a beacon in the sport, when a team of part-time semi-professionals somehow defied the odds and made it to the World Cup finals in Germany.
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A lifelong fan - he queued in a sleeping bag to see Leeds in the 1965 Cup Final - Ridsdale could sense one of those tides which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune.
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Earlier this year today's Chester auctioneers sold the boots apparently worn by Sir Stanley Matthews in his unfading 1953 FA Cup final for £38,400, while his medal was sold by Sotheby's in 2001 for £23,500 to the Stoke City buff and television presenter Nick Hancock, which still seems a bargain.
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The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
