| Perhaps they're attempting a footballing version of Muhammad Ali's famous rope-a-dope? |
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| Imagine a boxer who deployed a rope-a-dope strategy but spent the entire fight taking punch after punch on the ropes. |
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| He describes a strategy he uses where he lets his opponent win a few undeserving rounds, similar to a rope-a-dope in boxing. |
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| It was painful to take it, and we knew we would be criticized, but it was our version of the rope-a-dope. |
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| Drawing upon other-worldly fortitude and raw courage, Ali simply outlasted Foreman, with his rope-a-dope tactics, before knocking him out in the eighth round. |
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| I went into my own version of Ali's rope-a-dope, ducking as many of the heavy blows as I could, and waiting for some kind of idea to come to me. |
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| Dettori just gets the vote for an expert execution of his plan to, Muhammad Ali-style, rope-a-dope Hawk Wing in the Queen Anne Stakes. |
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| He likened the strategy of Pistorius' attorneys to Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope boxing strategy. |
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| My personal favourite is the 'Rumble in the Jungle' with George Foreman and how used those rope-a-dope tactics to shock the world. |
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| His rope-a-dope worked perfectly and the fight showed Ali could take a punch and highlighted his tactical genius. |
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| It was a rope-a-dope football and, although somehow it was successful, it was God-awful to view. |
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| Okay, there's no value in that but the motormouth Prince, if recent bouts are anything to go by, just might need a few rounds to dispatch the latest rope-a-dope. |
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| Julio David Roque Ler came all the way from Argentina just to do his best impersonation of the rope-a-dope in the super flyweight co-main event against Mexico's Jorge Arce. |
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| He sounded like a retired boxer who'd specialized in the rope-a-dope. |
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