A huge weekend of Premier League football is taking place with games at the top and the bottom of the table taking place and we look ahead to some of these games in our predictions competition. We also have some football language from the week including the phrase ‘snapshot‘ and the acronym G.O.A.T. There are also listeners posts and comments as well as our regular weekly football quiz in our football-language podcast. Of course you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2017 Tottenham vs Arsenal

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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 sitting here on my balcony in a sunny London waiting for the North London derby between Tottenham and Arsenal to kick-off later on today – as a Spurs fan I am feeling very nervous indeed! Apologies for the slight delay in this week’s podcast but both Damon and myself have been pretty busy over the past week. In fact Damon, who as regular listeners will know is based in Tokyo Japan, will not be with us this time round but will of course be back next week.

Line up

DF: Now, what do we have on today’s show? Well, we’ve had another another busy week of football with lots of games taking place and we’ll be looking back at some of those games in our review section – that’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. After that we have some more football phrases for you: ‘snapshot‘ and ‘on the road‘, as well as a discussion on some football abbreviations. And after all of that, we’ll finish up with our predictions and we’re going to look at three of the big games taking place today, Sunday, in the Premier League. It really is the business end of the season!

DF: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Thai. If you would like to record the message “You are listening to languagecaster” in your language then just send it on to us here at [email protected].

Good

DF: Right, let’s start with the good, the bad and the ugly. First of all, congratulations to Bayern Munich who won their fifth Bundesliga title in a row after thrashing Wolfsburg 6-0 away from home. Well done also to London sides Chelsea and Arsenal who defeated Tottenham and Manchester City respectively in the FA Cup semi-finals to reach the final. But really the stand-out performance of the week has to be from Leo Messi after his two goals helped Barcelona to a 3-2 victory over Real Madrid in last week’s clasico. He absolutely ran the show and his goal in the last second of the game has ignited the title race in Spain. The greatest of all time?

Bad

DF: After ten seasons in the top flight of English football, north-east side Sunderland were relegated to the Championship...