Learn English Through Football

This short football language podcast looks at the word ‘bottle‘ which has been in the news after Manchester City’s recent win over Premier League leaders Arsenal. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.
 
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Learn English Through Football Language Podcast: Bottle
DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. I’m Damian and I’m here in a very sunny London, while of course the other member of the languagecaster team is Damon who is based in Tokyo, Japan – you should check out his recent post on our website around the phrase ‘to sniff‘ when used in football from last week. Now, for those regular listeners of the show you’ll know that Damon is a Liverpool fan and that I am a Tottenham fan and these two sides meet on Sunday in the Languagecaster derby. I must admit I am not very confident after our very poor performance against in-form Newcastle last week when we were hammered 6-1. Hammered, of course, is used to describe a heavy defeat and another word for this is thumped – Spurs were thumped 6-1. What a terrible result for Spurs which also meant that the interim manager Cristian Stellini was fired – remember Stellini had been named interim manager after head coach Antonio Conte had been sacked a month before so now Ryan Mason has taken over as acting head coach. These job titles are all a little confusing but we do have a post on some of these titles that tries to explain them. But of course this all means that Tottenham still do not have a full-time manager!
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Now, I hope we are all doing well and enjoying all the football and on this podcast we take a look at the word ‘bottle‘ which has been in the news this week after Arsenal’s defeat at Manchester City in what many have called a ‘title decider’. The leaders were beaten 4-1 and it now look as if Manchester City h...