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More schoolboy errors followed & by the interval the game was all but over.

It didn’t help that our defence committed multiple schoolboy errors.

But, no, his spokesman confirms it was just a schoolboy error.

In addition, he's going to have to stop these catastrophic schoolboy errors he keeps making.

Now that, in any book, was a schoolboy error.

It was a schoolboy error but after what happened to me last year I wasn't going to take any chances."

To suggest that these were schoolboy errors is a calumny.

Again, a schoolboy error in a situation where photo ID was required.

Nasa has been known to make schoolboy errors from time to time.

Another schoolboy error was at the root of Stoke's goal.

"I played nicely apart from a couple of stupid schoolboy errors," said the 41-year-old.

We gifted them all five goals through schoolboy errors and laziness.

But we made schoolboy errors out there today.

We've missed an open goal and a young lad has made a schoolboy error," he said.

The schoolboy error - or perhaps plain arrogance - cost Overeem in the third round.

Every car coming down was racing the clock and they made a schoolboy error and were allowed to get away with it.

"Three or four of them were schoolboy errors, bad mistakes, that's not structural," Farina said.

Gunnarsson then commits the schoolboy error of giving away a foul throw.

A simple schoolboy error can spoil even the most distinguished of outfits.'

First time, schoolboy error, he forgets to pay the congestion charge, incurs a £60 fine right there.

Something of a schoolboy error, that.

Perosh, 41, benefitted from a schoolboy error as his opponent walked directly onto a travelling right hand.

Nigeria coach, Shuaibu Amodu, said his team paid the price for some schoolboy errors.

H/T to Clusterstock for pointing out the schoolboy error.

Talk about a schoolboy error.

The rookie mistake is to let the situation go on too long.

But Johnson was not about to make a rookie mistake.

And yet, even after all this time, I still make rookie mistakes.

In any sort of even fight, it would have been a rookie mistake.

She made the typical rookie mistake: trying to see everything.

A rookie mistake; neither of us had ever lived with anyone else before.

Little rookie mistakes, like not passing the ball to the open guy.

The next week you make a rookie mistake and you're the goat.

It's hard to imagine how a company that's been at this for so long could make such a rookie mistake.

"A little bit of a rookie mistake by me," he said after his fifth game this season.

Perhaps you can chalk it up to a rookie mistake.

I hope we can help him make some rookie mistakes."

Probably, Carroll made rookie mistakes under the pressure of running the entire show.

When it comes to running their own businesses, doctors are making rookie mistakes.

Save them — eating before hitting town is a rookie mistake.

"I hate when people talk about me making rookie mistakes.

None of these three new winners made a rookie mistake down the stretch.

He had just made a great shot, then he comes back and makes a rookie mistake.

"Rookie mistake number one is getting on a climb that's too difficult.

"It was a rookie mistake that cost us," Reeves said of the pass.

If Webb keeps that attitude, she might not make a second rookie mistake.

In patches we go well then lose our bundle and make rookie mistakes.

Bolivia, in the tournament for the first time since 1950, also made rookie mistakes.

Croce made rookie mistakes with his first coach and general manager.

It was also a rookie mistake by an eight-year veteran.