It’s the third podcast of the new season and this week we take a look at some language from the big games, including ‘last ditch defending’ and ‘give the green light to‘. We also look back at some of the good, the bad and the ugly from this week’s football – including a small Lancashire club, while we also feature some of the big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle – including Damian’s team Tottenham taking on Damon’s team Liverpool. You can check out the transcript for the show in the post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).

2016-17 Learn English Through Football Podcast: Week 3 – Spurs v Liverpool

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Transcript of the show

DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football podcast

DF: Hello football lovers everywhere. If you also want to improve your English language skills, you’ve come to the right place! My name is Damian, and this is week 3 of the 2016-17 football season and today on our football language podcast we will be reviewing some of the football news, introducing some football phrases and taking a look at the Premier League games coming up this weekend.

Now, in here London the weather here has recently been really really hot – I wonder what it is like in Tokyo, where Damon is hopefully there at the end of the line. Damon, how are you doing?

DB: Hi there Damian. Yep, good to hear from you. Well, over here I’m doing well after a battering by a couple of typhoons, Tokyo is now sunny, hot and humid – the sun is good, the rest is not! Now, it’s been an interesting week of football with Brazil becoming Olympic men’s football champions for the first time after a penalty win over Germany, the qualifying rounds for the Champions League have finished and the draw has already taken place – a nice draw for the English sides – and the transfer deadline approaches, that’s the 1st of September. Damian, talking about the Olympics, does the football competition mean much?

DF: I think for fans in Brazil it most definitely did; though we should remember it is mainly an under 23 tournament, I ‘m not sure I’d actually say that in Brazil.. I am not sure either that it means that much for fans here in Britain however. How about in Japan, is it a big competition there?

DB: Well, yeah, I think it is a bigger over in Japan than perhaps in Europe. It’s seen as a big scalp if you can do well in that tournament, I think,  in Japan.

Line up & Quiz

DF: Now, we’re going to start our show this week with our good the bad and ugly section, with three news stories from the beautiful game this week. But before that, we have a quick question for our listeners: which two countries have won the men’s tournament at the summer Olympics three times – the answer is at the end of the show. Now, Damon, what was good this week?

Good

DB: Well, of course congratulations go to Brazil for winning the Olympic gold but I think that this week the ‘good’ should go to Accrington Stanley, a fourth-tier club in the English league who beat Premier...