By Jonathan Head, BBC News

媒體英語(yǔ)會(huì)帶大家一起學(xué)習(xí) BBC 撰稿人在報(bào)道世界大事時(shí)常用到的單詞和短語(yǔ)。

Background: 土耳其足協(xié)嘗試著舉辦了一次不同尋常的球賽，參賽球隊(duì)都曾經(jīng)因?yàn)樾袨椴患讯艿竭^(guò)懲罰，而觀眾則一律為婦女和兒童。這場(chǎng)在土耳其首都伊斯坦布爾舉行的 球賽氣氛非凡。參賽隊(duì)包括土耳其頂級(jí)球隊(duì)費(fèi)內(nèi)巴切足球俱樂(lè)部。

Turkish football fans are famed for their raucous passion, and the Turkish Football Federation punishes violent behaviour by making the team play without an audience. But from this week they have moderated that rule, to allow women and children to watch sanctioned matches.

Last night the first such game, at the stadium of the top team Fenerbahce, was attended by an unexpectedly large crowd of 41,000 women and children.

The players said they approved of the changed atmosphere, where, instead of the usual war-like chanting, there were flowers and applause for both teams.

The Federation changed its rules because it's expecting more crowd trouble this season, following the exposure of a big match-fixing scandal.

Turkish television companies, which rely heavily on football for revenue, were worried they would lose subscribers if too many games were played in empty stadiums.