Learn English Through Football

This week on the Learn English Through Football Podcast, we review the footballing news from the week, introduce two new football-language phrases – a curler and queueing up, and we will be looking at some of the games in week 9 of the Premier league.  These games include Liverpool’s trip to Tottenham, the Languagecaster derby*. For those who wish to practise their English, there is a transcript below to help with reading and listening (Damian = DF, Damon = DB). *Damon is a Liverpool fan and Damian is a Tottenham supporter.
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Transcript of the show
DB: You are listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Hiya everybody my name is Damon and I am here in wet and soon to be windy Tokyo – we’re waiting for a typhoon to arrive tomorrow, so the weather is not good at all and my football match has been cancelled yet again. How are things in London Damian?
DF: Hi there Damon. London is also very windy as have another storm here. Hopefully the typhoon passes over Japan and everyone is safe. Things here in London are good though on Friday night at the London Stadium the home fans, that’s the West Ham fans of course, were not very happy as they fell to a 0-3 home defeat against newly-promoted side Brighton. I think it will be a tough week for those fans and also for their manager Slavan Bilic.
DB: West Ham are still struggling to make the London stadium feel like home it seems. OK, what’s the line up today on the show?
Line Up
DF: Well, Damon, we’ll start with the good, the bad and the ugly, our section that looks back at the footballing news of the week – and we’ll have stories from the European games, an update on Juan Mata’s charity initiative, and some more bad news for the English FA. After that, we have some listeners’ questions, a quiz question to test our listeners’ knowledge, followed by some football phrases – a curler and queueing up.
DB: Sounds good, and we’ve got predictions to finish, right?
DF: Yes, that’s right and the two Merseyside teams in the Premier League, Liverpool and Everton, will be taking on the two North London sides in the Premier League, Tottenham and Arsenal. Of course, Tottenham v Liverpool is the Languagecaster derby – your team, Liverpool, up against my team, Tottenham.
DB: I’m nervous already!
DF: Yes, it’s a big game!
DB: OK, let’s start with a look back at the footballing news in the good, the bad and the ugly.
Good
DF: Well, I’m going to start with good, and it was good for your team, Damon, Liverpool, who put seven past Slovenian side Maribor. After so many draws over recent games Liverpool finally put away the chances they created. That result leaves them joint top of the Group E table with Spartak Moscow. Bayern Munich bounced back fr...