This weekend’s big game is the North London derby that takes place on Saturday at Wembley and we’ll be featuring this match in our predictions section along with another needle match: Southampton against Liverpool. We’ll look back at some of the footballing news from the week in the good, the bad and the ugly and of course we’ll be explaining lots of football language in the show 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).

Football Language Podcast: 2018 North London Derby

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Transcript of the show

DF: You are listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to the show for all fans of football and espcially those who wish to improve their football language. My name is Damian and I am in London where the weather is a little grey and cold but still good weather for football. I am getting ready for the North London derby between my favourite team Tottenham and our arch-rivals Arsenal that’s going to take place in a few hours. There is, of course, lots of needle between those two teams but luckily not too much needle between myself and Damon who is over in Tokyo – Damon, how are things? Did you manage to survive the languagecaster derby?

DB: Well, let’s just say I was a bit disappointed at the end to have a win snatched away in the last minute of the game. But, I mustn’t grumble! What did you think?

DF:  Well if it was five minutes before that, I think I could have said the same thing as well But it was a great game. I mean it had everything, didn’t it. And people were talking about it all week. So, what do we have on the show today?

Line up

DB: We’ll start with some news from the footballing world this week including stories about Swansea, Chelsea and some sad news from Irish football. We’ve also got some football phrases to explain for those wanting to learn more about footballing English and this week we’ll talk about ‘hand a team a defeat‘ and ‘needle‘.

DB: And have we got a quiz question?

DF: Yes we do, and this week it is all about derbies.

DB: And that’ll bring us to predictions at the end of the show, right?

DF: Yes, that’s right! And don’t forget of course that you can also read the transcript for this show by coming along to our site here at languagecaster.com, while ou can also read it on your phone.

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