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Judging by the World Cups, Brazil is the number one football country in the world. Logically their Série A is the best league.CB

.Is that wrong to say "football competition / tournament"?-- It sounds wrong to me unless it involves a number of teams, as at the Olympics.

He plays football and takes taekwando classes. I wouldn't know how to spell this word. Most dictionaries seem to go for "tae kwon do", but it's possible that there are a number of variants, all acceptable. Some people might not consider capital "T" incorrect, but to...

Absolutely! I read in a newspaper that the English have logged on to the official website of the Euro 2008 more than any other nation. I find that a little peculiar because they aren't even playing. On the other hand, Finns were number 4 on that list and we're no good at football. That...

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, started in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century.Can we use appeared instead of started?Both of them mean "began to exist" but my book indicates that started is the only acceptable word here.I think...

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I really don't like football matches to be decided on penalties, as so often seems to be the case.My proposal would be, if scores are level after extra-time - then the match should be awarded to the side that had the most shots on target during the whole match (extra-time included). This...

Hello, Thanks for your quick answer ! I didn't realise my sentences were so short, I corrected them so I hope it is better now. I added numbers to empasis my main points. Could you help me to correct my grammar ? Through History, we’ve seen that American people are proud and...

No, it's not a sport like tennis. If you can come up with a rule at all (which will still have umteen exceptions) you'll use "play" with sports that have rules, opponents, scoring, etc. Play tennins, play lacrosse, play football, play badminton. You "do" karate or...

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