football-player

plural football-players

1. rareRare form of football player.

   But let’s take them at their word and ask this: if a football-player’s team drew, or lost, would he still be paid a win bonus?

   2017 March 27, Jim Armitage, “Football stars can only dream of bonuses for a balls-up”, in Evening Standard, page 32

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   We praiſed our Nativity-caſter’s pleaſantneſs, and he went on then again: The whole Heaven is Taurus, and wonder it e’er bore Football-Players, Herds-men, and ſuch as can ſhift for themſelves.

   1694, Titus Petronius Arbiter, translated by Mr. Burnaby and another Hand, The Satyr of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman Knight. With Its Fragments, Recover’d at Belgrade., London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], page 66

   But of late we have had some difficulties to contend with: first, in the advent of a troop of rough and noisy football-players, who, by driving their ball up and down, directly across the ground, effectually prevented all play.

   1860 June 22, a Wavertree Park cricketer, “Cricket Ground, Wavertree Park”, in The Daily Post, volume VI, number 1,574, Liverpool, published 23 June 1860, page [8], column 4