Complete the sports report with words from exercises 1-3.

It's half-time here in the cup final and the score is 2-2. A.C City were ___ last year too, but they were the ___.

___. Can they win this time? The other team, Thorpe United, are having an amazing season. About 30,000 of their ___ are here today, cheering them on. Thorpe's ___, Jimmy Jones, bought some great new players last year. But where did all the money come from? Several sports ___ reported recently that maybe Thorpe got a new ___ last month, the Russian millionaire Igor Poliakov. Nobody is sure, but the team is certainly a lot richer than it was before.​