It’s a great week of football this week! The big game in the Premier League is Man City v Chelsea, third versus first, Pep vs Conte, sky blues against the blues. We also have some English for football phrases including the multi-word verb ‘to sit out‘, and feature three big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle – Manchester City v Chelsea, West Ham v Arsenal and Everton v Manchester United. You can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).

2016-17 Learn English Through Football Podcast: Man City v Chelsea

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Transcript of the show

DF: Welcome to languagecaster.com’s football language podcast. This is the show for all fans of football who want to learn more about the language of the beautiful game. My name is Damian, and I am talking to you from London on a bright but chilly December day. Now, down the Skype line is Damon in Tokyo. Damon, how are things over there?

DB: Very good Damian. just getting ready for my team’s quarter-final game under the floodlights!

DF: Wow! Sounds good. Good luck to you and your team. How do you rate your chances?

DB: Slim! We only have 11 players and a few key members are out this weekend! But we’ll give it our best! Anyway, what have we got this week on the show?

Forza Chape

DF: Well, Damon before we talk about what is coming up on the show perhaps we should take a moment to pay our respects to all those who died in the air crash earlier this week in Colombia. As many of you will know, the Brazilian side Chapecoense were travelling to Colombia to face Atletico Nacional for the final of the Copa Sudamericana when their plane crashed killing 71 passengers. This included 19 players and members of the coaching staff, as well as many football journalists from Brazil. An extremely sad story from the football world this week.

Line up

DF: Right, on this week’s show we’ll start as we usually do with some news from the footballing world in the good, the bad and the ugly. After that, we’ve got a quiz question for our listeners before our focus on some of the footballing language we picked out from this week. And, of course, we’ll finish with our predictions for the results of three key games in the Premier League.

DB: Sounds good. Now talking of good, what was good this week for you Damian?.

Good

DF: Well, it was a good day today for Chelsea as they travelled to Manchester City and beat their rivals 3-1 and this after being one down in the first half. Conte’s men have now won seven games in a row and have a three-point lead at the top of the table.

DB: I can’t believe you didn’t mention Ben Woodburn, the youngest Liverpool player to score, who also comes from my home village back in the UK!

DF. Sorry. Great news and congratulations.