Hints and tips:
...For now, the actress is still best known for impish 2016 German comedy Toni Erdmann. That much is set to change....
...I am here for a gala organised by Toni Holt Kramer, head of the “Trumpettes” group of superfans, who I met last time I was here....
...For years, he, Toni Kroos and Casemiro (with whom he swapped shirts after the quarter final shootout) formed football’s savviest midfield....
...Junior staff stand to attention like ball boys and ball girls, managers carry the calm assurance of experienced umpires....
...The opponent’s ball lands short and the woman in black steps into the court to attack it as she has countless times before. But this time her ferocious forehand finds the net....
...Their captain, Stephen Appiah, hands the ball to Asamoah Gyan, saying: “Make the whole of Africa proud.”...
...“I knew he could take it,” is Toni’s frequent refrain....
...Her work has been compared to Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf and Enuma Okoro, a brilliant writer and thinker and my colleague. So both of you write fiction and non-fiction....
...The lamps melt them into a sweet ball of sound and joy. Lime-green moths flutter against the walls, and sputtering fireflies....
...You can’t get the ball off him, you can’t get close....
...Germany’s two refined central midfielders, Toni Kroos and Ilkay Gündogan, are not brimming with power or pace....
...But this England team appears to have replaced hopeful “hoofball” — kicking the ball long and upfield — in favour of slow, ponderous passing in front of packed opposition defences....
...In football, English exceptionalism died in about 1993, killed by the failings of the indigenous long-ball game with its warrior ethos....
...Sula is Toni Morrison’s second novel, and was published in 1973....
...Heidegger, meanwhile, imagined himself a kind of “conceptual wrecking ball”....
...This builds anticipation for the sudden flashes when he gains the ball, each exquisite touch the mark of a sportsman-cum-artist....
...Central midfielder Toni Kroos seemed too grand to track back, while his partner Sami Khedira kept going walkabout and losing the ball, including for Mexico’s goal....
...Created each year by Toni Gata, Miramar’s sommelier, it’s actually a thick hardback book, complete with colour photographs and the date stamped on the spine....
...(Anthony is creative director of Tigi hair products, and his family founded the Toni & Guy salon chain.)...
...A year later, at the World Cup in South Africa, they were joined by their near contemporaries Toni Kroos and Thomas Müller....
...Aubameyang crosses the ball low. Reus slides just in time to meet the ball with his left foot, caressing it over the onrushing goalkeeper....
...Players like Isco, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos - efficient midfielders rather than the brand names that sell thousands of jerseys - steadily passed their side into a position of dominance....
...That gives them patience, added to which is the certainty that they can always fall back on their playmaker Toni Kroos to find the right pass....
...His mother, no slave to human biology, is supporting her “because she has balls”. I ask him to elaborate....
...After an early German goal, it took some sharp ball-blocking, and not just by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, to keep the Ukrainians from causing an upset....
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