Yet Jacques Santini's side, coming off a 1-0 victory in Istanbul, are unlikely to be pushovers. |
Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before. |
Maybe they thought we were some hicks from the sticks, and were a wee bit complacent, but we have demonstrated since then that we are nobody's pushovers. |
It's tempting to dismiss them altogether as pushovers, but I also sympathize with their outsider pathos. |
Bristol hadn't been defeated in their previous three away matches, so they were never going to be pushovers. |
By which we ought to mean, the country will be in the hands of a puppet government, a government of quislings and collaborators, a government of pullovers and pushovers. |