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'Co-op' should be one-legged.


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THE THEORY goes that two legged ties in the Co-Operative Insurance Cup will glean glean  
v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans

v.intr.
To gather grain left behind by reapers.

v.tr.
1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers.

2.
 added profile for the sponsors.

Not so. Newspapers are reluctant to afford swathes of news print to the first-leg because... well, because it's it's  

1. Contraction of it is.

2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its.


it's it is or it has
it's be ~have
 the first-leg.

And the second-leg? Well, in many cases the tie is already done and dusted by the time we get to play the second-leg.

The fact remains that one-off, do-or-die knockout ties prick the football public's imagination. It also generates more media interest.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 10, 2009
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