3. Complete the text with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs given: play, lose, recognise, play, know, look, stop, arrest, start, win, go.

One Saturday afternoon, a team of police officers (a) were playing football against a group of local people in Yorkshire, England. The police officers (b) lost 2–0 when suddenly an officer (c) recognised one of the men who (d) was playing in the other team. He (e) knew that the man was a criminal. The police officers (f) were looking for him for several burglaries. So, they (g) stopped the match and (h) arrested him. Then they (i) started playing again. In the end, the police officers (j) won 3–2! And the man (k) went to prison for a long time.