Hopes that the 2005 Ashes series would be closely fought proved well-founded, as the series was more competitive than anyone had predicted and was still undecided as the closing session of the final Test began.

Hurst had played well enough to keep his place and, with substitutes still disallowed in competitive football, Greaves ' hopes of taking part in the final were dashed.

He played his final competitive game in 1985, at the age of 70.

He played twice more for England the following month against Slovenia in another friendly and made his competitive debut four days later in a World Cup qualifier against Croatia, where he played the final nine minutes.

In the 1980s, the engine saw its final incarnations, the BDR, used in the road-going version of the Caterham, and the 1. 8-litre BDT, which powered the never-raced Escort RS1700T, and the more competitive Ford RS200, which was created for Group B rallying.

Four of the five candidate cities were prominent national capitals, which lent an increased competitive interest to the final bidding phase.

In its way, this first final marks the beginning of major competitive football.

Despite a period of three years in the wilderness, he always believed that he would return to the national team and, in September 2009 he was called-up to the squad for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Slovakia by interim manager Stefan Majewski: after being on the bench for the first match in Prague, which saw Poland's slim World Cup hopes shattered, Dudek won his 59th cap against the latter on 14 October, in Poland's final competitive game before Euro 2012: in a match which was played in heavy snow and in front of a near-empty Stadion Slaski in Chorzów, he was denied a clean sheet by a Seweryn Gancarczyk own goal, as Poland lost 0 – 1.

In one of his final initiatives as Prime Minister, he launched a program of radical transformation of the island ’ s education system aimed at development of quality human capital equipped to succeed in the competitive global economy.

His final competitive game at home for Celtic came in a league match against Dundee United, and he scored both goals as Celtic won 2 – 1.

By using the internet as the middle-man, the purveyor of information to the final consumer, businesses can gain a competitive advantage through creation of an effective website, which in the past required extensive effort finding the right middle-man and cultivating the relationship.

Aldershot's final eight competitive games all ended in defeat and they had not won any of their final 16 games ; their last competitive win was on 28 December 1991 away to Maidstone United in the Fourth Division.

Leadership contests to determine the successor to a prime minister are usually held during the final days of the incumbent's term, and are traditionally a lengthy and competitive process.

Brazil beat Mexico with a final score 4-0, with Ademir becoming the first scorer of a competitive goal at the stadium with his 30th minute strike.

In the 1994 – 95 season, Fowler was an ever-present for Liverpool, playing in all of their 57 competitive matches, including the victory in the 1995 League Cup final, and a match against Arsenal in which he scored the Premier league's fastest ever hat-trick, in four minutes and 33 seconds, a record that still stands.

He scored the last goal in the final competitive match played at The Dell on 19 May 2001, against Arsenal.

His final competitive appearance for the Saints came against West Ham on 30 January 2002.

Coe had one final good season in 1989, when, at age 33, he won the 1500 m AAA title, was ranked British Number 1 over both 800 m and 1500 m, ran the second fastest 800 m of the year ( 1: 43. 38 ) and won the silver medal at the World Cup over 1500 m. He retired from competitive athletics in early 1990, after having to bow out at the Auckland Commonwealth Games with yet another chest infection.

He only won twice that season at Pocono and Charlotte but led more laps than he had the previous year and was highly competitive in the final races of the year.

Using just 15 players for 80 competitive matches Barnet reached Wembley in the FA Trophy, losing 3 – 0 to Stafford Rangers and reached the final of the Southern League Cup, drawing 2 – 2 with Hereford on aggregate.

Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

The final turned out to be one of Charlton's quieter days ; he and a young Franz Beckenbauer effectively marked each other out of the game.

Charlton played in all three, though was substituted for Alan Ball in the final game of the group against Czechoslovakia.

In the first end of the game the A players lead off with 2 bowls each, then the B players play 4 bowls each, before the A players complete the end with their final 2 bowls.

Lara played his final international game on 21 April 2007 in a dead rubber World Cup game against England.

A game is officiated by a referee, the authority to enforce the rules, and whose decisions are final.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

* Corvus, the final boss from the video game Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

In the 2007 World Series, the Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox, and were swept in four games ; the first game was 13 – 1, the second game was 2 – 1, the third game was 10 – 5, and the fourth and final game was 4 – 3.

They reached the Division One playoff final and battled against Sunderland in a thrilling game which ended with a 4 – 4 draw after extra time.

Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

the final word came forth.

Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.

The world's best golfer, shooting below par, came to the last hole of the opening round of the Los Angeles open with every intention of delivering a final crusher.

Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff before her dog kidnapping campaign came to an end.

Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

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Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

The final victory came on June 4, 2008, against the Pittsburgh Penguins, by a score of 3-2.

As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the ' ones that got away ' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7. 27 ( of which full forward Bill Brittingham contributed 2. 12 ) to tie with Melbourne ( who managed 10. 9 ) in the 1948 grand final.

The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers ( as they were popularly known by this time ) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16 point second semi final defeat of Melbourne, only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later.

He was woken by his second understudy, Stepney, who came to his room to signal the devastating final score with his fingers.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4 – 2 win over West Germany at the old Wembley.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

It was almost by accident that the final two, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, came together to complete the opera.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.