I'd appreciate any help you could offer. It is a dialect word, coming from Lancashire, in England. And I'm not talking about Cantorian transfinite mathematics, here. I'm not even talking about advanced counting. Now I'm going to type this slowly because I know some of you can't read fast.
Singular nouns take singular verbs and plural nouns take plural verbs.
I know that a team is made up of several players but that does not affect the syntax.