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July 24, 2021, 4:27pm
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Well, Vernam has come on for the last 25 minutes of Bradford’s Friendly this afternoon so, unless this is the manager just taking a look, I would suggest he’s part of their plans moving forward.

I can’t see Tshimanga coming anywhere near us, he’ll move to League 2 minimum.
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Matt Hancock is good at sneaking in behind to score 😁


Got a good record of scoring on camera too so would be up for it on televised games.


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And yet bizarrely an exception is made for sporting teams, as it is with the police, so they're always referred to as plural.

So police are looking for...

Grimsby Town are hoping to gain promotion....

But any other group (the council, the government, Camra, the FA, the ECB etc...) it's singular, so it's 'is' rather than 'are'.

God, I sound like geek...


That's an Americanism that's become the normal now. In britain, companies were referred to as plural entities and that is how I always refer to them.
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That's an Americanism that's become the normal now. In britain, companies were referred to as plural entities and that is how I always refer to them.


Er...no, it's not an Americanism, it's English grammar.

An organisation is singular rather than plural so it's the NHS is, rather than the NHS are.

Enough pedantry though....let's get back to GTFC.

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Er...no, it's not an Americanism, it's English grammar.

An organisation is singular rather than plural so it's the NHS is, rather than the NHS are.

Enough pedantry though....let's get back to GTFC.

UTM


To be even more pedantic for a bit longer, English has never had a formally accepted, universal grammar. The ‘rules’ evolve and are whatever is (are?) currently accepted. Some of the grammar ‘rules’ were attempts to impose Latin grammar completely inappropriately as modern English is a non-inflected language. 😉


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Can i suggest you listen to a podcast called "Something Rhymes with Purple" with Suzy Dent and Gyles Brandreth. They, well Suzy actually, explain the meanings of words, English grammar and it's origins in many other languages. Many of your questions are answered in the podcasts.
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Er...no, it's not an Americanism, it's English grammar.

An organisation is singular rather than plural so it's the NHS is, rather than the NHS are.

Enough pedantry though....let's get back to GTFC.

UTM


Sorry, but it is.

American English refers to a company as a singular entity (is/was etc...) whilst in British English a company is generally taken to be a collective noun (are/were etc...)

Anyway, it's not worth arguing about. Mainly because you're wrong
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A lad from Maidenhead (Barrett?) and one from altrincham (Hancock?) from what I can make out have the potential to be making the switch over to BP


https://www.footballinbracknel.....ent/  only just signed a new contract so seems unlikely plus he's a winger which we are certainly not short of
Hancock is almost 31 so don't really see why we'd be interested
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