Example sentences of "[art] professional footballers ['s] association " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 2 | THE Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 3 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 4 | This was the issue which brought the Professional Footballers ' Association , founded in 1907 after several earlier false starts , into immediate conflict with the FA and the League . |
| 5 | The players , who will receive little compensation , have been in contact with the Professional Footballers ' Association . |
| 6 | From next season onwards , the Professional Footballers ' Association permitting and the projected earnings proving correct , the Premier League should have the purchasing power to buy up even more of the available playing talent and be in a position to dominate the FA Cup to a greater extent than usual . |
| 7 | As a member of the ‘ shadow board ’ of the Football League , with whom the Professional Footballers ' Association have no quarrel , propriety demands that I do not take sides in the dispute between the Premier League and the PFA . |
| 8 | THE result of the ballot regarding possible strike action by First Division players will be known today but a solution to the dispute between the Professional Footballers ' Association and the Premier League over payments for televised matches is expected to be announced shortly . |
| 9 | ONE OF the most discouraging aspects of the prolonged dispute between the Premier League and the Professional Footballers ' Association has been the Football Association 's failure to intervene , although this argument is bringing English football into disrepute . |
| 10 | The Professional Footballers ' Association were offered an improved percentage of television revenue after a 3½-hour meeting in London . |
| 11 | Gordon Taylor , chief executive of the Professional Footballers ' Association , yesterday rejected the help of Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson as a mediator in the dispute with the Premier League . |
| 12 | GORDON TAYLOR , chief executive of the Professional Footballers ' Association , yesterday rejected the help of Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson as a mediator in the dispute with the Premier League that has brought the game to the brink of a strike . |
| 13 | In this case the Barnet chairman was able to chalk up several bruising encounters with his own manager and players before the Professional Footballers ' Association investigated his mishandling of the club 's wages and brought matters to a head . |
| 14 | The Professional Footballers ' Association took emergency action yesterday to intervene and pay the players ' wages and end-of-season bonuses for winning promotion to the Second Division . |
| 15 | The 26-year-old Manchester United defender is a strong candidate for the Professional Footballers ' Association Player of the Year Trophy . |
| 16 | Jim Smith 's Second Division outfit are the first non-Division One winners of the Professional Footballers ' Association Fair Play Award . |
| 17 | Ballot papers on strike action are ready to be sent out to Football League players if talks on the Premier League do not meet the satisfaction of the Professional Footballers ' Association which wants a say in the new set-up . |