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Originally Posted by Ouisch  It depends upon the context. It would probably sound better if you said "I'm playing football at 5:00" or "I play football at 5:00."
"Can you join us for dinner tonight?"
"No, sorry; I'm playing football at 5:99."
"Are you available to work overtime this week?"
"No, I play football at 5:00 every day." |
And another context: someone with his holdall in his hand, opening the door to go out:
"I'm going to play football". This isn't really the 'going to' future of 'play'. He's saying 'I'm going' and he's adding his reason for going.
A way to avoid having to think about the 'going' verb at all wd be to say
"I'm off to play football."
("I'm/he's/they're [etc] off" is a pretty common and useful idiom.)
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