I Wanna Talk- Coventry City football team 科芬特里城市足球队

 I wanna talk about supporting Coventry City, the team I’ve supported since I was a young boy at school. Coventry City are a team from the West Midlands near Birmingham where I grew up and just to give a bit of background on the club, it was founded back in 1883 and we were founding members of the Premier¹ League. But in 2001, after thirty-four consecutive² years in the top division, we were finally relegated³ and since that year, we’ve been in the Championship or the second tier of the English Football…Leagues.

 

Our only real honour was winning the FA Cup back in 1987. People often ask me why I support Coventry City. Well, in my school, everyone either supported Aston Villa⁴, the local team or Liverpool, the team that won everything at the time. I didn’t really want to support the same as everybody else, so I wanted to choose a different team, so after a school trip to Coventry one day, I felt, well, I’ll support Coventry City then. It was the FA Cup win that cemented my support for them. I remember listening to the radio commentary⁵, listening to them beat, I think Sheffield Wednesday in the semi-final and that was it. I was a city fan then.

 

Em…people ask why I don’t support one of the big teams. Well, in England, people either support the team that always wins, and we call them ‘glory hunters’ or a team near from where they were born. And there is a lot of joy in not supporting one of the big teams especially when we get to play the big teams. I always remember beating Manchester United one cold Boxing Day when we score two goals in the last minute to beat them 3-2 and even last season we went to Old Trafford and beat Manchester United 2-nil. Also playing in the Championship is surprisingly a better league I think than playing in the Premier League. Every team can beat each other, it’s much more exciting, every team has got a chance to getting promoted or there is always the threat of relegation⁶. Every season, there’s new teams to visits and it’s much more interesting than the Premier League which is pretty much the same every year.

 

Supporting a team’s like being part of family, you can’t just choose to leave the family if there’s some disappointments. And being part of that family means that you share the same dreams and the same desires and the same disappointments. This season I think we’ve got a good chance of promotion⁷ - we’ve got a good manager, Chris Coleman who used to be in charge of Fulham, and we’ve got an outside chance I think of making the playoffs. Last season we were very nearly relegated but this season I think we'll have a much better season.

 

 

1 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

2 consecutive   

adj.连续的，联贯的，始终一贯的

参考例句：

• It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
• The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。

3 relegated   

v.使降级( relegate的过去式和过去分词 )；使降职；转移；把…归类

参考例句：

• She was then relegated to the role of assistant. 随后她被降级做助手了。
• I think that should be relegated to the garbage can of history. 我认为应该把它扔进历史的垃圾箱。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 villa   

n.别墅，城郊小屋

参考例句：

• We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
• We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。

5 commentary   

n.评论，评注；实况广播报导，现场口头评述

参考例句：

• He is giving the commentary on the basketball game.他正在对篮球赛作评论。
• His running commentary on the football match was excellent.他对这次足球赛所作的实况报道十分精彩。

6 relegation   

n.驱逐，贬黜；降级

参考例句：

• Liaoning team lost this game, is still deeply avoid relegation zone. 辽宁队本场失利后，仍然深陷保级区。 来自互联网
• In society, relegation is based on your income. 社会上的规类是以你的收入为基准。 来自互联网

7 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。