On this week’s podcast we spotlight World Cup newcomers, Slovakia. We also review the football stories of the past week and make our predictions on the big games – this week a host of derbies to look forward to. Come along to the site at languagecaster.com to read more.

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PREDICTION

This week’s featured match is Barcelona v Real Madrid

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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION

This week’s English for football is the expression ‘all bets are off’, which has a general meaning of a prior agreement no longer being applied. In football we use the expression when talking about a game that is difficult to predict – not because the teams are evenly matched but because of other factors such as it being a local derby game. Form counts for nothing as each team really wants to win the local bragging rights and so there is nothing certain in the game, it would be unwise to bet on the result – so all bets are off.

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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:

Which country inspired the Barcelona football team’s colours?

a. Germany

b. Austria

c. England

d. Switzerland

Answer next week.

The answer to last week’s question, ‘When was the last time that Manchester City won the League?’ was b. 1968

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