It’s the second week of languagecaster’s football podcast and already there has been lots of action. In this week’s podcast we turn to La Liga to preview the start of the season in Spain. As always we review the football stories from around the world in the good, the bad and the ugly: women fighting and injuries in the Premier League all feature. Come to the site at languagecaster.com to read about these and many other footballing stories.

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PREDICTION

Featured match

Tottenham visit their London city rivals West Ham Tottenham have got off to a flyer and will be hoping to stay top with a victory.

Can you do better than these predictions? Any comments? Come along to the prediction section on the site and let us know.

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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION

For this week’s English for football we have the phrase ‘to be sidelined‘. This phrase is a passive construction: that means it is made with the ‘be’ verb and the past participle of the verb, in this case ‘to sideline‘. The passive construction is used when someone or something has something happen to them. To sideline means to put on the side, to remove from the centre or the main action. To sideline someone means to keep them out of the main action. In football, players are often sidelined by injury: they get an injury and cannot play. This week, Fulham played in the new Europa competition and their striker, Andrew Johnson picked up a bad injury – he dislocated his collar bone. He will be sidelined for two months. He was sidelined by the injury.

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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:

Burnley have never been in the Pemier League before the season. Including Burnley, how many teams have played in the Premier League since it started in 1992?

a) 32

b) 38

c) 48

d) 51

Answer next week.

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This week’s POLL

This week’s poll asks which team do you think will win the Premier League in 2010. Come along to the site in order to vote.

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