A Side

The 4-a-side games are executed on a 22 x 16 meters court with sudden death penalty shoot-outs to break ties. ❋ Alan Black (2011)

The confluence of the rugby union World Cup and the Super League play-offs means there is scarcely a moment in the day when you cannot watch blokes chucking a ball about – or in the case of the 15-a-side game, scrabbling around on the floor after it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

An alarming decline in men's 11-a-side football has not been arrested, and almost 1,650 more club sides have disappeared from the 32,000 that existed when the FA's national game strategy was launched almost four years ago. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was only briefly a fluorescent light which dazzled the union game – two Welsh seasons and a blinding tour for the 1950 Lions – before Leeds signed him to transform the 13-a-side code with a skip in his stride and a smile on his face. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The album is fleshed out with an a-side of nice contemporary pop produced by Dan Hartman and others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will be a challenge to hold on to all the 11-a-side men's teams we've got, said Kelly Simmons, the FA's head of national game. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Asia, with the success of the Rugby Sevens, rugby grows around that, with the 15-a-side game coming behind. ❋ Marisa Wong (2011)

Consequently, the game's most dangerous attacking weapon is the mid-tackle offload: Ball carriers in the 13-a-side game are taught to draw in an opponent, thereby taking a defender out of the play, before releasing the ball at the moment of impact to free up a teammate. ❋ Jonathan Clegg (2011)

I found Barney Ronay's recent article on "silver fox" football very interesting as I play in a veterans' 11-a-side team. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Please Senator Clinton, step a-side for this country and your party. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just an a-side, the major exception to this rule is when you call a company that doesn't use a call center or scripted representatives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Due to a double booking the second time the pitches have been double booked in recent weeks, as it happened with my other team too - sort it out! we ended up playing 7 a-side against a bunch of pub lads. ❋ Kerron Cross (2006)

Howbeit Regnaldus who had an intention to slay the king, stoode a-side in the midst of the house talking with one of the Princes of the lande. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The cellar was left a-side, and the servants of the Hotel were obliged to bring up in the court-yard those of the band who could not walk any more; at last, the troop went out carrying away a good supply of provisions as wine, cigars, watches, jewels and purses stolen in the servants 'rooms, and also clocks and about a hundred table-plates belonging to the Hotel. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

His coronation took place in the great hall built by Vladislav, and the solemn ceremony was followed by a tournament, also held in the same hall -- a tournament on horseback, mind you, and ending up with a mêlée in which thirteen knights a-side took part. ❋ Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker (N/A)

The galley of the knights carried twenty-seven oars a-side, and each of these oars was manned by nine Moslem slaves. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)