These are some of the words and phrases we used in this week’s podcast. For more English practice try our online quizzes and crosswords, worksheets and English for football phrases.

• a lifeline - help, reprieve

Gretna have been handed a lifeline by the Scottish Premier League.

• shaky - weak, unsafe, not solid

It seems a bit of a shaky end to the season for Gretna.

• humdinger - extremely exciting, extraordinary, great

Chonburi defeated Melbourne in a humdinger of an Asian Champions league game the other day.

• to provide - to give, to pass (in football)

Maybe Beckham will be providing Wheater with some dead ball crosses.

• horrendous - terrible, awful, very bad

Ashley Cole! Horrendous tackle - gets a yellow card. Turns his back on the referee shows so much disrespect to the referee…

• whinge - complain, whine, cry

(Ashley Cole continued) … complains, whinges about it (the yellow card), and he’s joined by his Chelsea team-mates…

• spine - the main part of a team, the most important part, your backbone

Cole, Lampard and Terry. That’s almost the spine of the England team there.

• trouble brewing - trouble coming, problems starting, bad things soon to come

At Barcelona, there’s trouble brewing with Ronaldhino.

• to call off - to cancel, to stop

In Argentina the match between Velez and Sarsfield had to be called off after a fan was killed on his way to the game.

• to presume - to guess, to think, to believe

I presume Gotham hall is in Hollywood.

• to go for - to choose, to decide on

I went for a 1 nil win and you went for a draw.

• to ride (your) luck - to rely on luck, get results through luck

Man United have been riding their luck in this fixture against Liverpool recently.

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