September
Newsletter: Week 5
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The World Cup qualifiers from last week saw Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, Ghana and England all qualify for the finals in South Africa. Champions League kicks off this week and on this week’s show we preview the group stages. Come along to the site at languagecaster.com to read about these and many other footballing stories.
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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION
This week’s English for football expression is ’streaky’. This word in football has two main meanings. The first is used to mean lucky. So for example, ‘It was a bit of a streaky goal’ - meaning it was very lucky, it wasn’t a ‘clean’ goal. The second is related to the patterns ‘winning streak’, scoring streak’ etc. These phrases mean to go on a run, to have consecutive wins or goals. If a striker is described as ’streaky’ it means they score a lot of goals for a short period, then score none. Their form is up and down. They are not consistent. recently, Jermain Defoe has being scoring lots of goals for Tottenham and England, but he is often described as ’streaky’ – people are waiting for the goals and his luck to run out.
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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:
Which payer has played most Champions League appearances?
a) Roberto Carlos
b) Paolo Maldini
c) Ryan Giggs
d) Raul
Answer next week.
Last week’s answer was Terry Butcher (the last -futile- attempt to stop Maradona’s wonder goal.
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This week’s POLL
This week’s poll asks which team do you think will win the Champions League. Come along to the site in order to vote.
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