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- noun UK a terrace at a
football ground , originally forstanding spectators , though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994
Etymologies
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Examples
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I really like Chris McGrath's work - so if using him suggests that Ex-Kop is some sort of hardboiled SF cop story, you can count me in.
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In fact the event the club regressed, and his exit will end a volatile six-year tenure notable for European success and political intrigue, but not the title the Kop craved.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It said Cpl Rachata, also known by his nickname Kop, is a member of the armed militia that supported the red shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
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In fact the event the club regressed, and his exit will end a volatile six-year tenure notable for European success and political intrigue, but not the title the Kop craved.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It said Cpl Rachata, also known by his nickname Kop, is a member of the armed militia that supported the red shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
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STEVEN GERRARD'S injury could have saved Yossi Benayoun's long-term Kop future
unknown title 2009
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Lombard's Kop, which is the higher, lies in the left.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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Pretoria that the enemy under Erasmus and Viljoen were present in force at a place called Rhenoster Kop, which is about twenty miles north of the Delagoa Railway line and fifty miles north-east of the capital, it was arranged that Paget should attack them from the south, while
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Oldham right back Tom Adeyemi was visibly upset late in the game at Anfield after seemingly taking offence from something shouted from the Liverpool-supporting area known as The Kop.
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But the Kop was his preferred destination before he left
tribalfootball.com tribalfootball.com 2010
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