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On this short football language podcast for learners of English we look at some of the language used recently to describe Son Heung-min’s return to goalscoring, including, ‘break his duck‘; ‘scoring streak’ and ‘form is temporary but class is permanent‘. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.
Football Language: Son Heung-min’s Return to Goalscoring (2022-23)
DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. I’m Damian and I am one of the Languagecaster team and I’m based here in London, while the other team member, is of course Damon and he is in Japan.
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Now, on this very brief football language podcast, I’m going to look at some language used to describe Tottenham and Korean striker Son Heung-min’s return to goalscoring form. He had failed to score in his previous six matches, which for the joint winner of the Golden Boot from last season was a long time without a goal. In fact, we could say that it was a goal drought. Sometimes we might hear the phrase ‘they can’t buy a goal‘ which means a striker has not scored for a long time and does not look like they will score for a long time either; they are in a bad run of goal-scoring form. So, the Korean striker was dropped to the bench for the recent Premier League match against Leicester but came on after 59 minutes to score a hat-trick and go home with the match ball. Has Son broken his goal drought and returned to goal-scoring form? Well, as a Spurs fan, I am hoping the answer is yes!
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OK, let’s take a look at some language to describe this return to form.
Form is temporary but class is permanent