Napoli go missing against Juventus as Higuaín seals a victory for 'Maxism'
This sentence is the title of this article. I really don't understand why " go missing" is used instead of " goes missing".
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1It’s referring to Napoli as a plural collection of team members. – Jim Dec 04 '17 at 19:19
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1And it's a UK/US thing whether teams with a singular spelling are regarded as singular or plural. – Hot Licks Dec 04 '17 at 19:31
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Note in this title http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-06/manchester-city-beat-arsenal-to-extend-premier-league-lead/9121376 they use "Manchester City beats Arsenal " and for native speaker like you if they write "Manchester City beat Arsenal", is there any difference between them ? – anhvu1210 Dec 04 '17 at 19:32
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1It's sports - a language of its own. In the US we switch nimbly between obvious singulars and plurals: The Red Sox beat the Yankees," but "St. Joseph beats Holy Family". We choke on something ambiguously novel like The Miami Heat, which either suck or sucks.. ;-) – Rob_Ster Dec 04 '17 at 19:51
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Answered at England is or are playing, itself claimed to be a duplicate of Are collective nouns always plural or are certain ones singular?. – Edwin Ashworth Dec 04 '17 at 22:35
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Note that beat is potentially confusing because of its irregular simple past form: he beats them (present) vs. he beat them (simple past) vs. they beat him (present) vs. they beat him (simple past). – CJ Dennis Dec 04 '17 at 23:15
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Napoli is a plural as its referring to a group of team members therefore it should be go not goes.
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1That's for people subscribing to notional concord here. Not all would do. – Edwin Ashworth Dec 04 '17 at 22:39