noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a football/basketball etc team
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China’s football team failed to qualify for the World Cup.
a football/basketball/tennis etc coach
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Jody became the women’s basketball coach.
a football/music/essay etc competition
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There’s a music competition in the town on June 12th.
a football/rugby/tennis etc match
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There was a rugby match going on on the school field.
a football/tennis/baseball etc fan
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Jack is a keen football fan.
a football/tennis/golf etc club
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There’s a football club for the young people in the area.
a sports/football/basketball etc star
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Sam was a football star in college.
American football
association football
Australian Rules football
beach volleyball/football (= played on the beach )
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Who wants a game of beach volleyball?
fantasy football
flag football
Football League/Masters/Heisman etc Trophy (= the name given to a particular competition for which the prize is a trophy )
football pools
football/basketball etc practice
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Dale was at football practice.
football/cricket/rugby etc pitch
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the world-famous Wembley football pitch
football/rugby/riding/ski boots
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Take your muddy football boots off before you come inside.
Gaelic football
religious/football/disco etc mania
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Keep-fit mania has hit some of the girls in the office.
table football
tennis/football/rugby etc coaching
the football/cricket etc season
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The football season will be starting soon.
touch football
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Sensible, efficient, and a heart as big as a football .
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Our skating stars are as big as football stars.
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By doing so, they created the biggest football club in the world.
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Hey, that's a big contract new football coach John Mackovic got!
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And now Tranghese has the added responsibility of leading a separate Big East football conference.
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The following morning was to be my last training session with the biggest football club in the world.
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Flamengo is probably the biggest football club in the world.
english
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I think it's about to fragment into different groups for english football , internationals etc ... which would be better.
gaelic
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He enjoys reading and his main sporting interests are rugby and gaelic football .
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Wild as in wild about gaelic football .
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In terms of mass appeal rugby comes fourth after Gaelic football , hurling and soccer.
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He plays both but his preference, and by a long way, is for gaelic football .
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She holds several prestigious medals for gaelic football , including a National League medal playing with Kerry.
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He is Brian McEniff, Donegal gaelic football manager, hotel-owner, former politician and father of ten.
good
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That's the view of a man now arguably playing the best football of his career.
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But a good football rivalry is.
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The true art of good football is making things look easy.
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Dallas has a better football team than Pittsburgh.
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We want to restore the good image of football .
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He called Steve Young the best , too, the best quarterback in football .
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Haslemere were playing some good football and almost went further ahead when Whiston headed just over.
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One is horrible and the other might be the best ever in football .
international
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Tensions within international football could mean that the fourteenth World Cup will be the last of its kind.
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Everyone knew Gary Lineker was saying farewell to international football and a new dawn was beckoning.
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At international levels football can also unite and divide.
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But for the good clean fun of international football , they would have gone on being indifferent to those others.
local
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football .
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Now he is a member of the local football team.
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This is where local models, local football players and the managers' girlfriends go.
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In the meantime, the one matchup which most local prep football fans long for went unplayed for the eighth straight year.
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On October 15, 1994, Silje was playing with them on a local football field.
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Local polytechnic and local football team are working together to benefit the community.
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But the local football authorities will protest at any attempt to transmit live football without prior consultation with them.
political
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But can the game afford to hold its showpiece in an unstable country where sport is a political football ?
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Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.
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In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football .
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The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché.
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I urge him to stop any move to allow the barrage project to continue to be used as a party political football .
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The Treasury felt strongly that changes in taxation for purposes of stabilising employment would immediately become a political football .
professional
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Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players.
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In San Diego, professional football had come to town.
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As a professional sport, football has to meet different financial criteria from an amateur sport.
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Sport certainly responded to the demand of the urban worker for entertainment. Professional football is the obvious case.
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He was balding the way a lot of professional football players were balding.
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The music halls, professional football and the noisy presence of working-class people at seaside resorts on bank holidays were all attacked.
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In the end, the campaign worked to convince voters that professional football is good for Nashville.
■ NOUN
club
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Described by one resident as a rough area, Walton village lies in the shadow of both Everton and Liverpool football clubs .
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There are unlikely to be any problems in attracting a junior football club to share the school field.
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You can't say anything at a football club to anyone because basically they get back.
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Loyalty to urban football clubs stems from when their parents used to live in inner-city areas.
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Merseyside has been enveloped by sporting influence more than almost anywhere else in Britain, due to its two major football clubs .
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There is no such thing as confidentiality at a football club .
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Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams.
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For good measure, he also owns Milan football club .
coach
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It turned out about the good-looking fellow from Essex County that he was a football coach who also did some counseling.
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He has, as my high school football coach would say, gone the other way.
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Mr Yanase is a football coach , a psychologist, and a college president.
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He was an assistant football coach at Colorado in the 1980s and had a law practice.
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In managing your finances, you should look at your assets the way a football coach looks at his team.
college
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A college football association is charged with conspiring to limit the number of college games that football fans can see on television.
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Very much like being named No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll after the bowl games.
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Rejected for the college football team, he persisted and got in.
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Steve Spurrier will remain in college football until he lives down the Nebraska defeat.
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When he was at Miami, he turned some heads by proclaiming himself the best receiver in college football .
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That's the same way it would have ended up in all the years before college football went high-tech.
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In 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played the first game in college football history.
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The successful programs I know of in college football stay ahead of the game.
fan
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A college football association is charged with conspiring to limit the number of college games that football fans can see on television.
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To many people, football fans are the epitome of the selfish individualism spawned by Mrs Thatcher.
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Pat is a keen football fan .
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A keen football fan , he attended Dinamo's first leg 2-1 win and met with Linfield chairman David Campbell.
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But on the biggest beer drinking day of the year, some football fans will reach for a nonalcoholic beer.
field
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On October 15, 1994, Silje was playing with them on a local football field .
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At 14 stories high and three football fields in length, it is the biggest passenger ship afloat.
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Parish councillors were forced into making a quick decision when the gypsies began to occupy the football field .
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The area, which is the size of about 10 football fields , easily hosts thousands of visitors.
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We don't have any factories or co-ops here in Alcala, but we've got a marvellous football field .
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He donated $ 20, 000 for construction of a fitness center at the high-school football field .
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The only time he wasn't was on the football field .
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Do they deserve it on the football field ?
game
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You stare at one and see miniature scenes - a football game , a council meeting and a pop concert.
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All were allegedly taken at the same football game by freelance photographer E. J. Flammer.
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What we needed to do was win football games .
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Just imagine taking the family to most of our football games .
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Oh, and there will a football game , too.
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In fact, this was a players' production, as most Cowboys performances, and frankly most football games , are.
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Two photographers have produced pictures of Simpson wearing the shoes at a November 1993 Buffalo Bills football game .
games
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Just imagine taking the family to most of our football games .
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What we needed to do was win football games .
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About three months after the wedding, he began taking Alvin with him to baseball and football games .
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In fact, this was a players' production, as most Cowboys performances, and frankly most football games , are.
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His unabashed cheerleading for Cal was most visible at football games .
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Parking at the football games would increase to $ 20 for cars from $ 15 last season.
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I mean, the man just wins football games .
ground
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The Loch Inn Close to Hibs football ground .
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Police will also be able to close off-licences if they deem it necessary, including those near football grounds .
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The savings - altogether £100m over the period of the scheme - are to help pay for safety improvements at football grounds .
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Many people believe that there are schoolrooms and football grounds where civilized order is for ever on the verge of breaking down.
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We will review sports taxation, reform the Sports Councils and make football grounds safe for spectators.
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Video systems at football grounds should be regulated and individuals should have the right to see any recorded evidence used against them.
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Football fans came crowding up the hill toward the football ground , singing and shouting and throwing empty beer cans.
hooligan
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Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans .
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The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army.
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Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.
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She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans .
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The police have also taken on the football hooligans , the hippies, and the criminal gangs.
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It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.
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Once upon a time we were all law-abiding citizens, and now we've got football hooligans .
hooliganism
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We let off steam in graffiti, vandalism and football hooliganism .
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This suggests that theories linking football hooliganism to changes in working-class community life are based on a somewhat dubious history.
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Tough action has cut down football hooliganism .
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In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism .
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Thus the principal task of theories which specifically address modem football hooliganism is to account for these dominant forms of behaviour.
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I would have thought it is very dangerous to get football hooliganism mixed up with mugging.
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This distinction provides a useful basis for a review and evaluation of specific theoretical approaches to football hooliganism .
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Secondly, we will look at modern delinquency, and specifically football hooliganism .
league
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The prize at the end of the campaign trail is premier league football next season.
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He played league football at 50.
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Home of County cricket, League football and a greyhound racing stadium.
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The red army marches on its stomach, although the dream of Wembley and premier league football is food for thought.
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His career stretched from well before the second world war to the 1960s; he was still playing League football at 50.
manager
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He was the first football manager to appreciate the importance of such harmony and to put it into effect.
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And Arsenal were offering an unusually high salary for a football manager - £2,000.
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Like football managers , conductors are a phenomenon of the modern age.
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And yet, so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten.
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And finally good luck to Woodstock-based football manager Jim Smith the on Sunday.
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Such is the lot of the football manager that constant criticism has to be lived with.
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Sport I want to be a football manager .
match
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So a policy of making them pay, sit down and shut up at football matches will not make any difference.
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Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January.
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On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one.
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Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match .
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Oh yes, and the audience have to pretend they're at a football match .
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We may have a football match planned but not always.
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A football match was arranged between the two groups.
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It degenerated into a three-sided football match , with blue, yellow and red-lit supporters all but waving rattles in support of their teams.
pitch
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Another must is a football pitch .
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There will also be a floodlit multi-purpose outside court, and two hockey and football pitches .
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It had not been spent on the football pitch , however, nor the training ground.
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And finally the tale of a little village football club and their little football pitch .
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Five-a-side football pitch at Baberton Mains.
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Habit flying behind, she is bound for the football pitch where local kids are playing.
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Another possibility is to place two rectangular cakes together to make a football pitch .
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The Citrus Bowl requires some work, with seats being taken out to accommodate the corners of a football pitch .
play
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The best thing he does is play football with a spongy ball in the hall.
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Sometimes they will murder your bait or play football with the base of your float, but persevere nevertheless.
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Then you can picnic, play football or cricket or just walk across the moorland and look at the sheep.
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On Mondays I play football after school.
player
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Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players .
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A complete statement about the toll football players willingly pay for the right to say they play football.
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Numbering the characters emphasised their status as commodities, recalling the practice of collecting cigarette cards of football players or film stars.
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Oklahoma coach John Blake suspended four football players following an investigation of a fight at a Norman area restaurant.
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He dived gaily at my legs, like a football player .
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For example, football players should focus strengthening lower extremity muscles.
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But it did have its perks-I went out with the best-looking football player .
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In the first case, a 17-year-old high school football player struck his head on the ground while being tackled.
pro
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His first four seasons in pro football , with the Cincinnati Bengals, had been a wash.
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War, like pro football , is a different game these days.
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Zurich Robinson, a black pro football quarterback accused of sexually assaulting a female sportscaster.
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This is how the state of Maryland will fund the pro football stadium in Baltimore.
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The people of Tampa are going to build a new stadium for their perennially-dismal pro football team.
season
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When the football season ended, these warrior bands literally vanished.
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I just told him he better bet back here before football season starts next August.
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But of course the football season hasn't ended yet.
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Gazza moved out to the villa in July to acclimatise before the football season kicked off.
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Up to this point, it has been the perfect football season in Oklahoma.
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The strong football season , however, has generated more alumni giving, albeit earmarked for athletics.
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He had no offers from Southeastern Conference schools, for whom the Mocs served as cannon fodder each football season .
stadium
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At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.
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The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
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Other Business 1 Planning applications for football stadium developments.
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It was the recently completed football stadium that captured his imagination.
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Male bastions like the pub, the football stadium and the military have been stormed.
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They won the first two at the Polo Grounds, the last pair in a cavernous old football stadium on Lake Erie.
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Read in studio A public inquiry has opened into Oxford United's plans to build a twelve million pound football stadium .
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Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium , sometime shortly after 1999.
star
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No one knew whether the civil jury would hold the former football star liable for two brutal murders.
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And the police clearly fed the flames by publicly announcing they were investigating the football stars .
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Jurors took less than a half-hour Thursday to clear professional football star Warren Moon of assaulting his wife.
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He was a football star in college.
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In addition to excelling academically, Mr Packard was a football star and big man around campus.
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Though football star Dan Marino and swimsuit models were on hand, it was the Hansons who were mobbed.
supporter
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I don't just mean football supporters , or race-goers, or athletics buffs.
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And those football supporters , storming the terraces.
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My generation of football supporters have no idea at all if George Best or even Pele were that good.
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After all, some of them might be football supporters .
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Male speaker They're football supporters through and through up here.
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Furthermore, the fans themselves, although recognising the different types of football supporter , will not think in terms of a career structure.
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The young football supporters talked to by these authors have their own, mutually understood, hierarchies and regulations.
team
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The youngster never enjoyed school but captained the football team , preferring sport to academic lessons.
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It was a time when the Cleveland football team was moving to town.
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It probably won't be long, before Kenan's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team .
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I think there is talent on this football team .
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Farnham's East Street School football team of 1947-48.
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I said every player on the football team can have a limo.
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Originally, a football team was organised to help alleviate the drug problem by using sports as a cure.
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The Cowboys have the finest football team in the world.
world
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The plan enhanced Chapman's fame in the football world generally, but it was too radical to win immediate acceptance.
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But the Phillips pick was a bigger risk than the football world likes to admit.
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We love the football world cup.
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Six months in the top flight and he thinks he's f***ing Brian Sewell to the football world .
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In the football world this manifestly unsuccessful administration would have been on its bike years ago.
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The cumulative television audience for the 1998 football World Cup was over 40 billion.
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In the football world , they have been very successful.
■ VERB
watch
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The appeal of watching these football highlights over toast and tea was enhanced by the vibrant colour of the images.
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Or with so many global crises to keep an eye on, what the Almighty was doing watching a football game.
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I can never watch football to relax.
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Ever since I'd been a youngster, watching and playing football , Hibs have held an important place in the game.
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Mum is watching the football results.
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And I can't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players.
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Despite the cold, he believed that people would be prepared to watch football at night.
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Fans used to watch football with smiles on their faces.
win
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But the great dream was winning the football pools.
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Used to winning football , I first viewed the Cowboys with disdain.
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The Saints were playing to avoid mistakes, not to win a football game.
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I mean, the man just wins football games.
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You make more plays than the other guys, you got a good chance to win the football game.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
football/baseball etc card
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Finding that Stu Miller baseball card you wanted so badly.
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For example, my nephew Peter loves sports; he collects baseball cards , and creates imaginary teams in his mind.
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George hit upon the idea of buying a few baseball cards .
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His baseball card collection was near and dear to him.
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Instead, I was sitting on my couch examining baseball cards and looking them up in the encyclopedia.
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Readers of series books often collect books as eagerly as they collect baseball cards .
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When my kid was old enough to be interested, I gave him my old baseball cards to play with.
football/golf etc widow
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My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years.
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You've all heard of golf widows .
hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc
it's a girl/football/music etc thing
political football
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Airline safety has become a political football.
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Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.
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But can the game afford to hold its showpiece in an unstable country where sport is a political football?
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I urge him to stop any move to allow the barrage project to continue to be used as a party political football.
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In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football.
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The Treasury felt strongly that changes in taxation for purposes of stabilising employment would immediately become a political football.
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The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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college football games
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then think through the logic from the football authorities' perspective.
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For example, the professional footballer is an integral part of the production process of producing a football match.
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His unabashed cheerleading for Cal was most visible at football games.
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Well, what can you say about the football ?
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While Roebuck may wish to play down his football courage, the proof is there for all to witness.