Learn English Through Football

It’s week 18 in the Premier League and it’s The Citizens v The Lilywhites: Manchester City v Tottenham. It’s also the Club World Cup final with Real Madrid v Grêmio, and, of course languagecaster brings you another Football Language Podcast. On the show we have predictions, a quiz question, football language and news from the past week. If you have questions or comments, email us at:: admin@languagecaster.com (Damon= DB).
Football Language Podcast: 2017 Manchester City vs Tottenham


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Transcript of the show
DB: You are listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Hello and welcome to the podcast for all football fans and for those interested in improving their English. My name is Damon and I am here in Tokyo on a sunny, but wintry Sunday morning. We’ve got a lot to get through so let’s get cracking!
Line up
We’ll start with the good, the bad and the ugly, which is our look at some of the footballing stories from the week. After that, we’ve got a quiz question. We’ve got a few footballing phrases to look at, as always; this week we’ve got shut up shop and be drawn against. And we’ll finish with predictions and we’ll focus on the following three games: Manchester City versus Tottenham, Brighton against Burnley, and West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United.
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DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Cantonese. Now, if anyone would like to send us the message ‘You are listening to languagecaster.com’ in their language that would be great!
OK, next it’s the good, the bad and the ugly – footballing news from last week. Let’s start with good.
Good
A great move in Norway for equality, as the football association there has decided to pay the women’s and the men’s national teams the same salary! Of course, at club level things will remain very different, with the men getting much higher wages, but it seems sensible that citizens representing their country should be treated equally in terms of pay without reference to their gender. Great stuff from Norway!. It reminds me of when the Japanese women’s football team had to fly economy class to the Olympics in London, even though they were world champions, while their male counterparts travelled business class.
And before bad, we should also mention that it was good, well great, for Toronto FC who won the MLS Cup beating Seattle Sounders 2-0, and also good for Kawasaki, who won the J-League Championship on goal difference on the last day, as their rivals Kashima failed to win their last game allowing Kawasaki to pip them at the post.
Bad
As for bad, well it was fairly bad for the Spanish teams in the Champions League draw for the last 16. None of them had an easy opponent with