On this week’s show we review some of the football stories from this week in the first section of our podcast. We will also highlight some football language including ‘end product‘ and the classic cliche ‘six pointer‘. In our final section, predictions, we spotlight three games: Leicester v Hull (a real six pointer), Liverpool v Arsenal and Sunderland v Manchester City. Of course, you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2017 – Liverpool vs Arsenal

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Transcript of the show

DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football language podcast. My name is Damian and I am here in a bright and Spring-like London and looking forward to the weekend’s football. Damon, who is of course in Tokyo, will not be with us this week but we’ll hope to have him back next weekend’s games.

Line up

DF: Now, on today’s show we will start with a look back at some of the stories from the world of football. Then we look at a couple of footballing phrases, including ‘end product‘ and a very common football cliche ‘six pointer‘ and we finish off with our predictions section in which we look at three games from the Premier League: Liverpool taking on Arsenal, Hull City travelling to Leicester City in a relegation six pointer and Sunderland facing Manchester City.

DF: Yes indeed, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Irish. Now drop us a line at [email protected] if you have the message “You are listening to languagecaster” in your language.

Now next up we have our review of the football stories from the week.

Good

DF: Now to start with I am going to look at some good news and this story comes from the Asian Champions League. Hong Kong side Eastern won their first ever point in this competition after a 1-1 draw against Japanese team Kawasaki Frontale. Not only was this their first point, it was also the first time a Hong Kong side had participated in the group stage of the tournament and of course they are managed by the first ever woman to lead a team in the Champions League: Chan Yeun-ting. Well done to them.

Sad

DF: Now, this is not so much bad as sad as two big figures from the game passed away this week. French star Raymond Kopa was the first Frenchman to win the Ballon d’Or, while he also starred in the 1958 World Cup in which France finished third. He also played in the great Real Madrid side of the late ’50s and won three European ...