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PREDICTION
This week’s featured match sees Everton take on Liverpool. Below are Damon and Damian’s prediction – what do you think?
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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION
This weeka€™s English for Football phrase is to rue which means to regret and in football is often used with the word miss, as in missed chances and opportunities missed. This means that a team (or a player) regrets the fact that there had been a chance of winning or scoring a goal but that opportunity then disappeared. This week, Wales midfielder Gareth Bale rued his side’s failure to take their chances in the game against Switzerland in the recent European Championship qualifier – a game in which Wales lost 1-4. To rue missed chances.
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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:
In what year did Everton last win the title?
a. 1988
b. 1987
c. 1986
d. 1985
Answer next week.
The answer to last week’s question was B – Denmark won the European Championship in 1992
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