1. Football today is being hijacked and often corrupted by commercial interests, the fans exploited, their loyalty taken for granted or abused. The men and women who have
supported the game all their lives are treated as mere consumers of a product on which those
who run the clubs have a monopoly of supply. The more cash they can screw out of the fans
the better. And they call it sport. Welcome to the world of commercial football.
Comment on the effectiveness of the writer's word choice in making clear his
feelings about football today (4 marks).

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination