This week’s football-language podcast looks back at some of the big stories from the football week and also looks ahead to some of the big games taking place in the Premier League this weekend. We also explain some words and phrases from the past week including bomb forward and to kill off the game. The show also features three big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle – Bournemouth v Southampton, Manchester City v Arsenal and Everton v Liverpool, while we also answer your football-language questions. You can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF).

2016-17 Learn English through Football Podcast: Bomb forward, kill off the game and the Merseyside derby

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Transcript of the show

DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football language podcast. Hello everyone, my name is Damian and I am here in a rather grey and cold London though I am looking forward to all the football taking place this weekend including Tottenham’s home game against Burnley tomorrow as I will be going along to White Hart Lane to see that one! Now this week Damon, who of course is in Tokyo in Japan, will not be with us as he is playing football – let’s hope he wins and tells us all about it next week.

Line up

DF:  Now on this week’s show we have our regular look back at the football news in the good, the bad and the ugly and this week we feature stories from the World Club Cup in Japan and of course the Premier League. After that, we take a look at a couple of football expressions including the phrase to ‘to bomb on‘. Then we have our predictions in which we look at three big games taking place this weekend – a couple of interesting derbies among them – and of course we also have a quiz question and we answer some of your football-language questions.

DF: OK, let’s kick off with some good news from the world of football.

Good

DF: Well done to Japanese side Kashima Antlers after their 3-0 defeat of Colombian side Atlético Nacional in the semi-final of the FIFA Club World Cup to become the first ever team from Asia to qualify for the final of this tournament. Antlers will face Real Madrid in the final this weekend and though few give them any chance of winning, they will have home advantage and the confidence of defeating the South American champions to fall back on.

Bad

DF: Well, it has been a bad week for Manchester City’s German midfielder Ilkay Gündoğan who tore his knee