Football Cliches

This football language podcast takes a look at the Liverpool vs Manchester City match played last weekend in the 2021-22 season. We focus on some of the language used to talk about this exciting match, including the cliche ‘there or thereabouts’. You can read a transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check […]

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The language of football transfers in 4 easy steps: In this post we take a look at the language of football transfers. There is also a short vocabulary list at the foot of this post.

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In this short football language podcast we take a look at a football language cliche - 'They're like a new signing' with transcript.

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In this short football language post we explain the expression 'to be in the hat' which is often used when describing knockout football.

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In this short football language podcast, we talk abut the phrase 'not at the races', along with some other football language.A 

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In this short football language post we explain the expression 'to toy with an opponent' and how it is used in football.

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In this short football language post we explain the expression 'masterclass' and how it is used in football.

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Seven stages of being a football manager: Managers have yet again been in the news this week and so on this week's football-language podcast we take a look back at one of our 2009 posts that looks at some of the language used to describe the role of the football manager.

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In this post we explain the football expression 'labour to a victory'.

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Here we explain the football cliche 'add steel to the team' which is used when a team needs to be a litle stronger.

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