Learn English Through Football

In this week’s football language podcast, Damon and Damian get together to chat about some of the football words and phrases from the past week, including the cliche ‘can’t buy a goal‘. They also review some of the latest football-language posts that the languagecaster team have recently uploaded to the new-look website and take a look at their favourite teams’ ups and downs from the season so far. Check out our glossary of footballing phrases here, and visit our site to access all the previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions, contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.



Football Language Podcast: Can’t Buy a Goal



 









DF: You’re listening to languagecaster.com. Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Learning English Through Football team. I hope we are all doing well and staying safe wherever we are in the world. I’m here in a cold and wet east London and of course still in lockdown but enjoying as much football as I can watch – and that’s despite my team Tottenham’s terrible week! Now, as regular listeners to the show will know our other contributor to the podcast is Damon who is based in Tokyo – hello Damon!



DB: Hi Damian.



DF: Good to hear from you Damon. How are things in Tokyo?



DB: Well, like most of the world, COVID is on the news all day and everyday, but like you, I’ve been watching football when I get the chance. Indeed, I watched our teams Tottenham and Liverpool play an exciting game a few days ago.



DF: I’m not sure it was that exciting for Spurs fans – we lost 3-1 and probably even worse than that was the fact that we also lost our talisman striker Harry Kane. Oh, losing at home, even to the champions, is never fun!



DB: Yes, losing at home is never good. Liverpool lost their three-year unbeaten run at home with a 1-0 loss to Burnley the game before playing Spurs, so it’s been a bit up and down as a fan recently. Actually, the season has been a bit up and down hasn’t it, for both Liverpool and Spurs? When they met in December, Spurs were top and Liverpool second, weren’t they?



Highs & Lows – Liverpool and Spurs



DF: Yes, that seems so long ago now for Spurs as we are not playing well at all. Tell me Damon, what have been the high and low points for so far as a Liverpool fan?



 



DB: There’ve been quite a few, but the low was probably losing 7-2 to Aston Villa. Seven. Two. That’s embarrassing especially when Liverpool are the current champions. That was a real shock, although it has to be said that Villa scored with almost all their shots, but Liverpool looked very, very slow and lacked any spark or ideas. That was a worrying time. As for the high, well, sorry, but Bobby Firmino’s extra time winner against Tottenham which ended his