This weekend sees our 15th podcast of the season and we look at one of the big London derbies of the season: Chelsea v Spurs. We also take a look at some language from football world, and feature three of the big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle – Chelsea v Spurs, Arsenal v Bournemouth, and Southampton v Everton. (Damian = DF and Damon = DB).

2016-17 Learn English Through Football Podcast: Chelsea v Spurs

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Transcript of the show

DB: You’re listening to languagecaster.com’s football language podcast. Welcome everyone to the show for all fans of football who wish to learn more about the language of the beautiful game. My name is Damon, and I am talking to you from Tokyo on a sunny but chilly November afternoon.

This weekend, Damian is off to his home country of Ireland to meet with family, so it’s just me for a short podcast this time.

Line up

I’m going to start with a look at some of the news from the footballing world that caught my eye this week in the good, the bad and the ugly section of the show. After that, I’ll talk a little about our football phrase of the week, ‘off the ball incident’. And I’ll wrap up the pod with a look at three games from this weekend’s Premier League fixtures – Chelsea v Tottenham, Arsenal v Bournemouth, and Southampton v Everton.

Good

OK. The good, the bad and the ugly and for good, I’m going to start with Steven Gerrard, who has retired from football at the age of 36. Now, this isn’t good exactly, but more of a congratulations to the Liverpool midfielder from Huyton, Liverpool, who was one of the best players of the last decade in the English game. Just a few stats: 710 appearances for Liverpool, 212 goals for club and country, 9 trophies, including the famous Champions League win in Istanbul 2005, and captain of both Liverpool and England. Famously, he didn’t win the league championship, but he won a lot of supporters for his passion and dynamic play. Well done Stevie G!

Bad

As for bad, well it’s been a bad few weeks for Bayern Munich. The German giants are so used to being on the top of the table, that it must be a shock to be in second six points behind leaders Leipzig. The have drawn with Hoeffenheim and lost to big rivals Dortmund in their last two league games, while also losing 3-2 to Rostov in the Champions League. That result drops them into second place in the group. All doesn’t seem well under the new management this season of Carlo Ancellotti and their game this weekend against Bayer Leverkusen is suddenly much more important than the Bavarian side would like.

Ugly

Very ugly scenes in Sweden last week as Jordan Larsson, the son of former Barcelona and Celtic player Henrick Larsson, was confronted after the last game of the season by hooded men, who forcibly took his shirt off.