What's the difference between coach and gooner?

Coach


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
  • (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
  • (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
  • (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
  • (v. t.) To convey in a coach.
  • (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
  • (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
  • (2) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (3) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
  • (4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
  • (5) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
  • (6) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
  • (7) Undeterred, the new coach, who also had the expanded recruitment role of general manager, began to exploit Beckham’s strengths, particularly his long passing, while compensating for his increasing loss of mobility by pairing him deep in midfield with the industrious, ball-winning Brazilian Juninho.
  • (8) They arrived on the second coach to carry unaccompanied refugee children from Calais to Britain in two days .
  • (9) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
  • (10) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
  • (11) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
  • (12) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
  • (13) If you go by 2014 alone, most wouldn't think of Johnson, but the little things a coach loves may have led to a biased choice.
  • (14) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
  • (15) Katie has her benefits frozen, leaving her penniless, while Daniel, a man whose doctor says he is too ill to work, has to spend 35 hours a week applying for jobs he can’t take, on the orders of the jobcentre “work coach”.
  • (16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
  • (17) Statistical analyses (p less than .001) indicated that female coaches were (a) more qualified than their male counterparts with respect to coaching experience with female teams, professional training, and professional experience; (b) as qualified as male coaches with regard to intercollegiate playing experience; and (c) less qualified than male coaches with respect to high school playing experience and coaching experience with male teams.
  • (18) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
  • (19) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
  • (20) Beckham has fallen out of favour at Real this season under new coach Fabio Capello, and had previously been linked with a number of major English and European sides, including Bolton, Newcastle, Internazionale and AC Milan, as well as various Major League Soccer sides.

Gooner


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nick Collins is at Arsenal but has taken somehow talked himself inside the ground so he doesn't get terrorised by the Gooner youths.
  • (2) What an exciting 24 hours it's been for the Gooners.
  • (3) The Gooners also want Chelsea striker Demba Ba , Schalke midfielder Julian Draxler and the moon on a stick.
  • (4) At Stamford Bridge, a handful of away supporters chant: “Have you ever had a Gooner up your arse?” at Carneiro.
  • (5) This morning’s edition of Spanish daily AS suggests the Gooners are in the box-seat to sign Real Madrid’s central midfielder Lucas Silva , despite apparent interest in the Brazilian from both Manchester United and Chelsea.
  • (6) Plenty of Gooners might be pleased to see no further spending, since presumably Arsenal will only loosen the purse strings if Wenger has committed to his own two-year extension … In an ideal world I’d like to see Matuidi or Dortmund’s Weigl in red and white, but Arsène’s not about to concede that Xhaka was a £35m ricket .
  • (7) August 27, 2013 2.21pm BST I've opened a can of worms … Mike Murphy emails: Far be it from me to offer you support, Marcus, but I’d suggest that anybody who calls United ManYoo, probably also call Chelsea ‘Chelski’ and find themselves discombobulated by a big four that doesn’t include Liverpool and soon enough Arsenal (or The Scarlet Might and the Gooners, as Colin probably refers to them).
  • (8) 9.44pm BST Stay strong our Indian Gooner audience There are 75 minutes to go.
  • (9) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … It varies from game to game – from Mr Burns, billing and cooing over his piles of cash, through Principal Skinner, scolding the unenlightened witterings of the media and refusing to entertain the imbecilic teenage tantrums of the great Gooner unwashed, to Mr Magoo, myopically struggling to see the wood for the trees.
  • (10) Their club is as permanent a part of the Champions League draw as banal interviews and they have finished above United in the past three Premier League seasons, yet the activity of the summer so far makes many Arsenal fans view United as more in tune with the times, with disenchanted Gooners yearning for a big-name recruit.
  • (11) At nearly three times the price of their previous record transfer Andrey Arshavin , Gooners can at least relax safe in the knowledge he can't possibly end up being three times as bobbins.
  • (12) When with other Arsenal fans – or “Gooners” – Logan feels a sense of belonging he has had trouble finding elsewhere.
  • (13) If “Sir Bob” had played for Arsenal instead, I’d have been a Gooner.
  • (14) Arsenal's majority owner also said his son, Josh, had become a huge Gooner and said he listened to fans.

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