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Football Language: Labour to a victory


 Learn English Through Football Podcast – Labour to a victory: Hello everyone, my name is Damian from the languagecaster team and in this post we explain the football expression ‘labour to a victory‘. If you want to have the transcript for this extra football-language post then think about becoming a Patron – you can access lots of extra materials about the language of football by doing so. If you have questions or comments about this or any other football phrase then email us at: admin@languagecaster.com . You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.
Football Language: Labour to a victory
There are different ways to describe a victory in football; for example, a sweet victory is one which ‘tastes’ good so perhaps a team has defeated their close rivals or maybe come from behind to win the game. Other adjectives to describe a victory include ‘hard-fought’ which means a tough win, a lucky victory, an easy win and the phrase a ‘laboured victory’. The word ‘labour’ is connected to ‘work’ and the verb ‘to labour’ means that someone has to work hard to gain something such as a victory in football. To labour to a victory also suggests that one of the teams in a game should win but has difficulty in doing so. Maybe this is because their attack is not working so well or that the other side’s defence is strong – or lucky – the victory, however, lacks fluidity.
Example: Here’s an example: The Irish team laboured to a 2-0 victory over Gibraltar in the European Championship qualifier last week.
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 June 14, 2019  n/a