I’d like to talk about a new story that caused a lengthy discussion among my friends and me. This was a story about the Chelsea Football Club’s appointment of Enzo Mariska as the new head coach. Before that appointment, Chelsea was going through a transition period which involved the new ownership takeover from the previous Russian owners. And this new ownership, we’re looking in the direction of using young players. And as well, they believed in that the youth, that youth had a future of football. So typically, they were divided opinions as to whether Ezmeriska was a good coach for a club like Chelsea. The first set of my friends argued that Enzo Moresca lacked the experience to manage a clothe of such magnitude. On the other hand, the other team believed that Enzo Moresca had already managed a club before, as a matter of fact, is Champions League winner before in the name of elasticity and as such he had what it takes to manage Chelsea Football Club. But I personally had a more balanced view. I believe that in a small church I understand the concerns raised by the people against the appointment where they believe he had no prior experience to manage a club of that statue. I believe that they should at least give him a chance to prove himself before just concluding on him being unable to succeed at such a job. This because most of my friends were all chair of football fans and we are following the Premier League on social media. This discussion took a very long time above an hour and it was a very likely discussion.
Band 7+: Describe a time when you had a long discussion about a news story. You should say: what the news story was about who you discussed this news story with what people's opinions were and explain why you had such a long discussion about this news story.
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I'd like to talk about a news story that caused a lengthy discussion among my friends and me. This was a story about Chelsea Football Club's appointment of Enzo Moresca as the new head coach. Before that appointment, Chelsea was going through a transition period involving the new ownership takeover from the previous Russian owners. This new ownership was looking in the direction of using young players, and they believed that youth had a future in football. There were divided opinions as to whether Moresca was a good coach for a club like Chelsea. The first group of my friends argued that Enzo Moresca lacked the experience to manage a club of such magnitude. On the other hand, the other group believed that Enzo Moresca had already managed a club before; in fact, he was a Champions League winner with a team called elasticity, and as such, he had what it takes to manage Chelsea Football Club. Personally, I had a more balanced view. I understood the concerns raised by those against the appointment, where they believed he had no prior experience to manage a club of that stature. I believed that they should at least give him a chance to prove himself before concluding that he would be unable to succeed at such a job. This was because most of my friends were all avid football fans, and we followed the Premier League on social media. This discussion took a very long time, over an hour, and it was a very lively discussion.
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