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noun British A train scheduled in addition to the normal timetable in order to transport football supporters to a match. First ScotRail is providing two football specials for the Scottish League Cup Final Example sentencesExamples - Once upon a time, football specials, organised by the supporters' clubs, used to be run to away matches.
- The police made the passengers from the football special walk from the station to the football ground in bare feet, an experiment in crowd control doomed to failure.
- Boarding the football special at Glasgow Central was like entering a mobile psychiatric unit in which symptoms of hysterical Scottishness would develop during the journey.
- The train standing at platform one is the Wembley football special.
- Our train—a normal service one this time, not a football special—slid through the grey drab outskirts.
- The football special was on its way to God knows where.
- One day he would be keeping the thugs in order on a football special; the next he might be escorting a member of the royal family from the royal train.
- They may have been waiting for a football special to take them to an important match.
- It was a football special, a train that had been taken over by Liverpool supporters.
- The football specials are leaving Liverpool Lime Street from platform 9.
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