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Tottenham make the Champions League group stage, an ugly melee spoils the Copa Libertadores final and trouble at Liverpool. These stories and more feature in this week’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which can be heard on our weekly podcast. Vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

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Tottenham completed a remarkable comeback against Swiss side Young Boys this week to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League. Spurs last played in the European Cup in 1962 when they reached the semi-finals but getting out of the group would be deemed a success this time round. Peter Crouch was the hero this week with a hat-trick but young Welsh star Gareth Bale assisted in all four of the goals. Spurs face holders Inter Milan, Dutch champions Twente and German side Werder Bremen in the group stages – do they dare to dream?
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The Champions League draw has been made and the Italian and Spanish leagues kick off this weekend so football in Europe is very much up and running. We feature many of these stories on languagecaster.com’s weekly football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section. continue

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This week we feature the champions from the top 4 leagues in Europe: Barcelona; Bayern Munich; Chelsea and Inter Milan. Our guest this week is Marco an AC Milan fan.

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript below that. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Every Season we ask which team you think will win the Premier League. Last season the majority of fans correctly went for Chelsea but how about this season? Simply click on the poll below and let us know what you think.

It’s week 2 of the Premier League, the Bundesliga also kicks off and we salute Internacional of Brazil on winning the Copa Libertadores. These and many other news stories all feature in this week’s languagecaster.com’s football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section. continue

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team will include a main listening report that is featured on our weekly podcast. Below is the complete list and by clicking on the report you will be taken to a post with a transcript and an audio file.

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Each week on languagecaster’s podcast we feature a main listening report and on this week’s show we look ahead to the 2010-11 season for our two teams: Damon will talk about Liverpool while Damian discusses Spurs’ chances. You can listen to the report by clicking below and can read the transcript below. Explanations of vocabulary in bold appears at the foot of the post.

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Damon: Well, Liverpool had a dreadful season last year, no trophies again and finishing seventh in the league. Awful! Can we do better this year? I hope so. And hope is something that Liverpool fans have again after their new manager, Roy Hodgson, has introduced a new confidence with three wins and a draw in his first competitive games – three victories in the Europa League and a battling draw with 10 men against Arsenal. So there is hope around Anfield, and this hope stems from his sensible signings. The latest, the experienced, combative Christian Poulson, will replace Mascherano as a holding midfielder – but coming in for a modest 4.5 million pounds, Liverpool can hope to make some money with Mascherano valued at over 20 million probably on the move according to the press. Hodgson has also bought in Joe Cole on a free transfer, an experienced striker in Jovanovic as well as a youthful defender in Danny Wilson. All, on paper, strengthening the squad. continue

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript below that. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team will be explaining a football phrase or cliché connected to football. Below is the complete list which will be updated weekly and by clicking on the phrase you will be taken to a post with a transcript and an audio file. You can find many more examples by going to our previous season football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here and of course by listening to our Weekly football podcast for all learners of English

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team produces a weekly podcast. Below is the complete list of the podcasts which if you click you will be taken to the individual post.

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The World Cup is over and already football fans around the world are looking forward to the new club season in Europe. Languagecaster.com will be back for the start of the new English Premier League season in mid-August with a new series of podcasts and English-learning materials for football fans everywhere.

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Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché connected to this summer’s tournament. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Today’s World Cup phrase of the day is the expression littered with fouls which means that a game is full of fouls, that the game was a dirty one. The World Cup final between Spain and Holland promised to be a festival of football but instead we witnessed a game that was littered with fouls – Holland commited 28 and Spain 19. There were also 14 yellow cards in the game making it one of the dirtiest finals in World Cup history. To be littered with fouls. .

 

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The World Cup final takes place this weekend and we cast our eyes over the two teams and give our predictions. Vocabulary, in bold from the transcript of this report can be found below. You can also:

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Game 64 of the World Cup, has Holland taking on the Spanish to decide the winners of the 19th World Cup tournament. Neither of these two sides have previously won the trophy before and despite having great players in their team, good form coming into the competition and strong footballing traditions, few pundits had tipped them to reach the final. That is except those here at languagecaster – Damon predicted a Holland victory while I went for Spain. continue

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Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché connected to this summer’s tournament. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Today’s World Cup phrase of the day is the expression to go for it which means to try and win a game by all-out attack – it here refers to the game, to try to win the game. This phrase was used by both sides before today’s World Cup 3rd and 4th place play-off between Germany and Uruguay with both teams suggesting they would take the game very seriously and try to win it by attacking – by going for it. The game was an exciting, open affair with the Germans winning 3-2 and the game was a great spectacle as both teams had gone for it. To go for it.