| He is one of those players who opposition players and fans love to hate at the same time as he is idolised in his own backyard. |
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| His lack of health was incredibly disturbing and traumatic for all of us, especially a young boy who idolised him. |
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| He idolised prize-fighters, regarded racketeers as his friends and loved money though he had difficulty holding on to it. |
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| She was a keen music fan who loved pop music and idolised Justin Timberlake. |
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| No wonder the Italian poet Petrarch, who idolised women, could not read her letters without exclamatory annotations in the margins. |
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| She had lots of friends, but she clung on to her big sister Samantha, who she idolised. |
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| But in the last 10 years he's been proving all his critics wrong with a glorious Indian summer of popularity, idolised by a new generation of young fans. |
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| As justly reviled as he is by many, Emwazi is idolised by Isis recruits as the personification of jihadi cool. |
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| I've always utterly adored and idolised my father, despite knowing that he was far from perfect. |
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| Keep all energy options open No technology should be idolised or demonised and energy efficiency must be increased. |
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| I've always seen it as a team game and I've always said that I don't want to be idolised, I just want to play. |
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| They have always idolised Kaka and Robinho, and having the Confederations Cup here gave them the chance to see them play. |
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| They would never have confided such a mission to someone who spends his free time suing film stars and having himself idolised by a camarilla of cameramen. |
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| In my early teens my friends and I simply adored and idolised the fabulous 1958 Bolton Wanderers FA Cup winning team, of which Ray was inside left. |
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| He is a sprawling maverick with a gravel-slide voice and bluesy guitar copied by Eric Clapton, idolised by Phil Collins and revered for his gruff love ballads. |
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| My mother idolised my father and I know my father loved my mother deeply. |
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| As a teenager he belonged to the far-right Monday Club and idolised Margaret Thatcher. |
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| Not all of this has been entirely complementary, and the military have been lampooned or ridiculed as often as they have been idolised. |
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| We must condemn these counter-models of pleasure, who are all too often idolised by the young, whose points of reference some are seeking to destroy. |
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| Lord Oakeshott, a former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said that Schmidt should be grilled by HMRC on his tax returns, not idolised in Downing Street. |
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| Having played in Italy, Scotland and Spain, the 31-year-old, now back in his homeland with Yokohama Marinos, is a figure of huge influence in Takeshi Okada's team and remains one of the most idolised players in all of Asia. |
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| Children and teenagers have become the hostages of a dark materialistic and unrestrained world where visual entertainment are idolised if parents and educators do not pose limits. |
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| The fact is that the Peruvian, who also holds an Italian passport, was idolised in Bremen even at the tender age of 20, to an extent that subsequent stars such as Ailton and Diego have never really achieved. |
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| This return to a nation in which he is still idolised for a seven-year stint at Celtic that yielded 242 goals and a European Golden Shoe is, Larsson insists, principally pragmatic. |
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| After spending time at a young offenders' institution, Legs, their idolised gang leader, returns with the dream of them all being able to live together on a farm, according to their own laws. |
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| Luke tries to escape multiple times, keeps his spirit under pressure from sadistic officers, never knows when he's beaten and is ultimately idolised by his fellow inmates. |
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| The X Factor winners say they idolised the likes of the Spice Girls in the 1990s and can't understand why there aren't more people banging the drum for mainstream girl bands. |
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| He was dedicated to Irving and his memoirs show he idolised him. |
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