"soccer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most irritating of all is his determination to paint British soccer as a gentleman's game, a notion United's real fans would no doubt treat with the scorn it deserves.
- To an American reader his fan's account of British soccer may be even more resistible than John Updike on baseball would be to a Brit.
- Interviews with World Cup heroes and superstars of British soccer.
- For the troubled sport of British soccer, with its international reputation for hooliganism and crowd disturbances, the wish for tranquillity would seem to be a forlorn hope.
- The tragedy is the worst in the history of British soccer, surpassing the death toll of 66 people in 1971, when crowd barriers collapsed during a match in Glasgow.
- The city also bears some responsibility for the tarnished image of British soccer.
- Traditional chants are as essential to British soccer as the seventh-inning stretch is to American baseball.
- In British soccer, people talk about "our lads," as if the national team is some village team gone off to play the next village.
- Roadburg (1980) provides a checklist of the key historical, ecological and social factors distinguishing British soccer as a spectator sport from its American counterpart.
- British soccer is a unique duality - the national conduit for open displays of straight male affection and its closely related inverse, casual male violence.
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