Sorry, typo!
It should have read: We’re not going to concede a lot of goals with this defense.
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Just because you’re in the you-ess-ay … defenCe!!! 
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I have auto spell check and it defaults to the US version (naturally). I sometimes forget that the English (UK) way of spelling certain words are spelled differently over here.
I know defence is spelt with a c over there and not an s, but it underlines it in red here, so it’s more convenient just to use the US version!
Yawn!
No, it’s Iawn if we’re on Welsh spelling now.
Croeso
The team I saw today was light years better than last season in every position.
During the many years that I lived in South Carolina I made sure to continue using UK English spelling (to keep myself sane!). Thing is, hardly any of the people that I wrote to noticed…
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Of course, this dedication will have been in vain if the only collective noun you now use is ‘bunch’.
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Fortunately not. Also, I could never use the past participle of “get” so beloved of our cousins from across the pond. “Gotten” indeed!!!..
Isn’t “gotten” an old English word? We stopped using it, our cousins across the herring pond carried on, so they aren’t incorrect, although it can sound a little clumsy to us what have been brung up on speaking English proper, like.
I remember my English teacher waging war on us using the word “got” at all. He considered it to almost always be unnecessary. “I have got a new toy” should be “I have a new toy” or “have you got a tissue” should be “have you a tissue” or “do you have a tissue”. More than 40 years hence I still try not to use the word “got”.
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I have gotten fed up with people turning nouns into verbs eg to medal.
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Same with " fall" and " autumn." Fall is actually much more descriptive.
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This is a football forum, not an English class.
Need I remind everyone that the language spoken at our stadium, on Saturday afternoons, ain’t exactly the Queens English!
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Nothin’ wrong with a bit of Anglo-Saxon!
Aah. Bunch.
As a letter to Viz once highlighted, in England you only use it in the context of three things:
A bunch of grapes
A bunch of bananas
A bunch of xxxxx
And that is all.
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Technically, what is commonly called a “bunch” of bananas is actually a “hand”. I must confess though, I am the only person I know who bothers about this. 
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I believe the collective term for c***s is ‘a Darrell’.
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Since having it pointed out to me a few years ago, I now feel I need to correct anybody who describes a football match as “turgid”. The word folk are looking for is torpid.
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I’ve heard both of those words used about WFC quite a few times in recent years. 
Hopefully not so often in future.
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Yes. I never ever want to hear ‘going down the Wednesbury Road to see the torpid saddlers’ again. Listening to that has been undeniably turgid!
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