Originally Posted by
57vintage
afc1903mad is not wrong in using the singular, since the club/team is a single entity, although more contemporary colloquial usage has seen the plural become acceptable.
"The Dons are frustrating ****s at times" - always plural.
"Aberdeen FC is/are ****ing crazy to consider moving to a park in the outer sticks miles from the city that gives the club its (singular, AND NAE ****ING APOSTROPHE) name, as it will be a right **** to get to and shuttle buses filled with boys whose bladders are distended to bursting point will be stuck at Hazleheid as KO approaches" - singular or plural.
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