C2 Vocab: Football Dreams

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My grandad had always seen himself ...... something of a football manager.

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as

Front

He was always extolling the v......... of this or that long forgotten footballer.

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virtues

Front

or ranting and r....... about how soft the current generation of footballers are.

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raving

Front

He calls modern footballers pampered p....... donnas.

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prima

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It was difficult to find a modern player he deemed worthy .... living ...... to his memories of the great icons of the past.

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of up

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His home office was replete ....... mementoes of his short career, photos, shirts, and dusty memories.

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with

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Sometimes he is so wrapped ...... in his memories that he doesn't hear you speaking to him.

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up

Front

He was daydreaming about playing football and it was almost impossible to snap him ....... of it.

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out

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There he sat, staring off into s....... with a gap-toothed grin.

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space

Front

“I was ..... contention ..... a place in the Manchester United academy.”

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in, for