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If asked, I would automatically say "Arsenal are my favourite team in the Premiership", irregardless of any Latin phrases used to persuade me otherwise. I just can't orientate myself to say it differently. Hrmph. Watch it, Bub. And what's wrong with the All Blacks, anyway? Thank you, Alex--I'm glad someone is on my side. [gracious bow e] (Yeah yeah, I know he didn't SAY so, but I'm taking it for granted that that's what he meant...) 
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I favor the use of the singular when the group functions as a unit and has a singular name. The football team has an average SAT score of 350. If the group has a plural noun for a name I use the plural: The Cincinnati Bengals are in last place. Then there's the phenomenon of a singular object expressed with a plural noun, such as pants or scissors. My pants are on fire and The scissors are on the table. I guess I just take the path of least resistance.
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the family IS, and so forth. These groups function as a unit Your assertion is based very much on the ideal(ised) situation .
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