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Newcastle United Football Club 紐卡斯爾聯隊

Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. They play in the Premier League (英格蘭足球超級聯賽) and are historically the seventh most successful club in English football. This takes into account all results since the beginning of English league football in 1888 but have won no significant competitions since their victory in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969.

The club formed in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has since played at St James' Park, the old Newcastle West End ground in the city. Newcastle United supporters refer to themselves as the "Toon Army". Newcastle's traditional local rivals are Sunderland, with whom they have contested the Tyne-Wear derby since 1898.

Colors

Newcastle originally wore red and white stripes when the East End and West End clubs unified, continuing the tradition of the defunct Newcastle East End. To avoid confusion with their neighbors Sunderland, Newcastle changed to their now familiar black and white stripes in 1904. Ever since then, this basic color design of the home kit has remained steadfastly unchanged, although the sock color has occasionally changed from black to white over the years - notably during the Ruud Gullit era, who believed white was lucky. They have also sometimes worn white shorts when playing other stripe-wearing teams who also wear black shorts.

Newcastle's shirt sponsors were Scottish & Newcastle Breweries from 1982 - 1986. In 1986, Greenalls took over and ran until 1990 when S & N returned for a ten year stint. In 2000, NTL took over for three years, and then the club was sponsored by Northern Rock. Newcastle's home and away kit is currently manufactured by Adidas and in the past has been manufactured by Admiral, Bukta, Umbro and Asics.

Supporters

Newcastle has a large fan base and the 3rd highest average attendance in England. Supporters often refer to themselves as the "The Toon Army" and the "Geordies". The name Toon originates from the Geordie word for town. It is not known for sure where exactly the term Geordie comes from. It may originate from the Geordie lamps, which were miner's lamps developed by George Stephenson in 1815. However it has also been claimed that in 1745, George II recruited many troops from around the Newcastle area. They were known as "George's men", which became "Geordies men" in the local dialect, hence Geordies.

Newcastle's supporters are one of the most passionate sets of fans in the country, with consistently large home crowds of around 52,000. The club is based in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, the only major club in the city. In recent times, where other clubs have attracted fan bases from all around the world, Newcastle's fan base is still mostly within Britain, with a small percentage from other parts of the world, particularly Scandinavia and Australia.

Like all major English football clubs, Newcastle has a number of domestic supporters' clubs. The club's supporters publish fanzines such as True-Faith and The Mag. In addition to the usual English football chants, Newcastle's supporters sing the traditional Tyneside song "Blaydon Races".

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用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 他們整晚都在唱歌。

2. 他和妻子吵架后就把她拋棄了。

3. 去溫布爾登給我打場勝仗吧！

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1. 黑猩猩的畫作正在出售。

Chimpanzee's artwork is on the block.

2. 我們的候選人絕不會輸的。

There's no way our candidate can lose.

3. 士兵們不允許去酒館。

The tavern is off limits to soldiers.

4. 他們靠政府救助金生活，買不起任何奢侈品。

They couldn't afford any luxuries while living on the dole.

 

影片對白  One minute they're nice, uncomplicated guys and the next they're ridiculously rich arseholes who walk out on their families.