| His rambunctious, charismatic appeal does call to mind the scrappy sort of life force so present in American folklore. |
| The game began to descend into a scrappy affair with play the balls getting messy and players getting confrontational. |
| He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are. |
| Only in a bruising period of the second half, when the game turned scrappy, did Hibs lose their composure and control. |
| A derby match is seldom a pretty affair, with so much at stake games become scrappy. |
| A scrappy move in a disjointed first half gave the home side their best chance of the half. |
