Learn English Through Football

Welcome to the podcast for English language learners who love football. In this week’s podcast we look back at some of the big stories from the football week in our good, the bad and the ugly section, while we’ll also be looking at some of the football language from the past week and of course we’ll be looking ahead to the big games this weekend in our predictions battle – including Arsenal against Chelsea and Manchester United hosting Leicester City. You can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Arsenal vs Chelsea and Man Utd vs Leicester

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Transcript of the show
DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football podcast. Hello everyone, my name is Damian and I’m here in London where it is a beautiful September Saturday. Damon, how are things there in Tokyo?
DB:  Hi Damian. Rain, rain and more rain here. So… so much so that my last two football games, one in the league and one in a cup competition have been called off!
DF: Oh no, the games have been cancelled – that doesn’t sound good at all.
DB: Nope. Anyway, how about you Damian? I noticed from our instagram account that you were at the London Stadium watching West Ham this week?
DF: Yes, that’s right. I live very near the stadium here in east London so my brother, who is a West Ham fan, and I along with some friends went down to see the Hammers – that’s West Ham’s nickname of course – and they were playing against League Two side Accrington Stanley in the EFL Cup, which of course used to be known as the League Cup. Now, tickets for the game were much cheaper than usual – we paid only 10 pounds.
DB:  So League Two actually means the fourth division or tier, right?
DF: Yes, so we’ve got the Premier, then the Championship, then League One and then League Two.
DB: Weird
DF: Anyway… yes, I know it is weird isn’t it, yes. So, although the underdogs from Accrington put up a brave fight the Premier League side ran out winners with a beautiful free-kick from their star player Dimitri Payet in the last minute. And West Ham will play London rivals Chelsea in the next round which will be fun, while of course our teams Damon – Liverpool and Tottenham – will face each other in the next round as well after both teams won convincingly in the same competition. What do you think of the next ‘languagecaster derby‘?
DB: The languagecaster derby! Well, the last one was a draw but that was at Tottenham’s ground. I’m hoping home advantage and you fielding some of your reserves will see the Reds through to the quarters.
DF: Yes, you could be right there. Anyway, Damon, what do we have on today’s podcast?
Line up and Quiz
DB: Well,