In this week’s football language podcast for learners of English, we look at some of the language to describe the Premier League game between Manchester City and Liverpool – what do we mean by the phrase ‘title showdown‘ or ‘top-of-the-table clash‘? You can find out by listening to this week’s football-language podcast! You can also read a transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at [email protected].

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: Title Showdown – Manchester City vs Liverpool 2021-22 Season

DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. This is Damian and…I’m in London and I’m one half of the languagecaster team, the other member of course is Damon who is in Tokyo, Japan – I wonder if he stayed up to watch the big Premier League game live this weekend between his favourite team Liverpool and current league leaders Manchester City? It was a great game between two top sides and on this podcast we look at some of the words and phrases used to describe this match-up between the top two in the Premier League.

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Title Showdown

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In football, a showdown is a battle between two teams with the suggestion that there’ll be a final outcome or result; maybe something like a winner-takes-all game. In this kind of match we can add the word ‘title‘ to showdown to show that this is an important game – title showdown – the winner can probably go on to win the Premier League title. Another expression to describe this would be a ‘top-of-the-table clash‘ which means the two top teams in the league face each other (and here the word ‘clash‘ means a battle) – though maybe this expression can be used at any stage of the season, whereas a showdown suggests a more decisive game towards the end of the season. Of course, there are still seven games to go in this season’s league but many