bottle (courage), bottle it (avoid a tackle, lose a game because of lack of passion), lack bottle (not have courage) - soccer phrases from languagecaster's football glossary

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This week, languagecaster.com introduce the football cliche 'it's a funny old game'.

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This week's football phrase is 'to wrong-foot the defence', which means to do something to catch out the defence; to throw them off-balance or to catch them by surprise.

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This week, languagecaster.com brings you the football phrase 'mind games'. You can understand more about the word or phrase by reading the transcript below.

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Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase 'a drubbing'.

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Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase 'route one'.

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This week's football phrase is 'against the run of play', which is used to describe a situation when a team scores a goal when they...

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Slot home: This week's show features the phrase 'to slot home' which is a way of describing the scoring of a goal

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On this week's podcast, we look ahead to the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine this summer by previewing the Republic of Ireland's chances.

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché for learners of English who love the sport. This week is the phrase 'On aggregate'

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