C2 Vocab: Football Dreams

My grandad had always seen himself (a)   something of a football manager.

He was always extolling the v (a)   of this or that long forgotten footballer

or ranting and r (a)   about how soft the current generation of footballers are.

He calls modern footballers pampered p (a)   donnas.

It was difficult to find a modern player he deemed worthy .... living ...... to his memories of the great icons of the past.

(a)  

His little home office was replete (a)   mementoes of his all too short professional playing career, photos, shirts and dusty old memories.

Sometimes he is so wrapped (a)   in his memories that he doesn't hear you speaking to him.

He was daydreaming about playing football and it was almost impossible to snap him (a)   of it. (wake him up/get his attention)

There he sat, staring off into s (a)   with a gap-toothed grin on his face.

“I was ..... contention ...... a place in the Manchester United academy I’ll have you know.”

(a)