Another bumper crop of football-useful phrases from this week’s podcast! For more English practice try our online quizzes and crosswords, worksheets and English for football phrases.

• under the weather - sick, tired, feeling down or depressed (maybe after your team has lost to a big rival)

I’m just a bit under the weather at the moment.

• a bumper (crop) - a good (crop), a large amount of something, lots

We’ve got a bumper show this week.

• on a roll - a succession of good results, to be doing well over many games, the start of some positive results

Newcastle are on a roll.

• to extend - to stretch, to increase, to make longer or larger

Lyon and Bayern Munich in France and Germany respectively extended their leads at the top of the table.

• to be thrashed - to be beaten badly, to lose by a lot of goals

Saudi Arabia were thrashed in the World Cup qualifiers.

• to fall off the pace - to drop back, to begin to perform poorly in a race, to lose points, to do badly in the title race

Arsenal have drawn four and lost one out of five: They have really begun to fall off the pace.

• to relish - to look forward to, to be excited about

I’m actually relishing the Liverpool Everton derby.

• to rate - to think highly of, to think (someone/thing) is good

I don’t actually rate Skrtel yet.

• at the end of the day… - my final opinion is.., after thinking about both sides of the argument, I think…

At the end of the day, I think Liverpool are going to win it.

• a slump - a bad run of form, a time of bad luck or bad results

Inter will come out of their slump and win this game one-nil.

• to blow (something) wide open - to make the chances for all contenders more equal, to beat a leading team and make the second or third place team think they can win the title

Sevilla are going to blow the title race wide open by beating Real Madrid.

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