On this week’ s Learn English Through Football Podcast we look ahead to some big games from the weekend including the Carabao Cup final between Man City and Arsenal and a grudge match between Manchester United and Chelsea. We’ll also be explaining lots of football language in the show, including the phrase ‘drag a shot wide‘ and try to predict some of the big games as well. You can see the transcript for the show below and if you have questions or comments, email us at: [email protected] (Damon= DB; Damian  DF).

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2018 Carabao Cup Final and Man Utd vs Chelsea

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Transcript of the show

DB: You are listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Welcome to the show for all those who love the game of football and who want to improve their English skills too. My name’s Damon and I’m in a cold, grey Tokyo, where the Winter Olympics are dominating the news, but the football season here has started up again, so there’s football around too. Damian, are the Olympics big in London?

DF: Hello Damon and hello everyone. It’s fairly big though with the time difference, it’s not as big as it is in Japan. By the way, it is wintry weather conditions here in London with temperatures about to drop to -6 degrees over the weekend…

DB: …yikes

DF: … I wonder if any games might be postponed this week due to freezing conditions? So, Damon, the J-League starts again this weekend, which teams are favourites for the title?

DB: Good question. I’m gonna’ say two teams beginning with ‘K’ and the main one is Kashima… Kashima Antlers and… but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that my local team Kawasaki might do well too, so the two teams with ‘K’.

DF: Wow, that’s great, what’s on the line up for today’s show?

Line up

DB: OK, Damian. Well, first, we’ll look at some footballing news in our section called the good, the bad, and the ugly. Second, we have a quiz question and this week it is connected with the Olympics, and that’s the summer version of course. Thirdly, we’ll talk about a few English for football phrases, including the phrase to drag the ball wide. And finally, we’ve got predictions, where we look at a couple of Premier League games and the League Cup, now known as the Carabao Cup, Final between Arsenal and Manchester City.

DF: Yes, the name of this competition has changed a lot through the years hasn’t it Damon? What version do you remember most?

DB: Well to be honest, I always called it and knew it as simply the League Cup, but I suppose the Milk Cup version was the one I was most familiar with. You?

DF: Yes, I agree with you as I always knew it as the League Cup.

You’re listening to languagecaster.com (message in Thai) 

DB: Yes,