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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’
‘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.’
‘The football specials are leaving Liverpool Lime Street from platform 9.’
‘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.’
‘The train standing at platform one is the Wembley football special.’
‘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.’
‘They may have been waiting for a football special to take them to an important match.’
‘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.’
‘It was a football special, a train that had been taken over by Liverpool supporters.’
‘Once upon a time, football specials, organised by the supporters' clubs, used to be run to away matches.’