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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 is to implode. Maybe most students of English have heard of explode, like a bomb, an explosion. Implode is a word used to describe a team, or team performance that is so bad it damages the chances of the team, it causes them to destroy their own chances – they collapse inwards. No prizes for guessing which team has imploded at this World Cup, France. Anelka sent home for swearing at the manager, captain Evra fighting with the coaching staff, players refusing to train and terrible, disjointed performances on the pitch. France imploded. They destroyed their chances and are now heading home early. To implode.

How much do you know about the history of the World Cup? Who won the tournament in 1938? Where was the final played in 1974? Who was the top scorer in 1966? Download the pdf file below, answer the questions and fill in the crossword. There is also an online version and of course there are answers provided.

World Cup Crossword.pdf | Answers | Online Version

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2. Losing finalists in 1974 and 1978
6. The host nation of the first World Cup
8. One of the losing semi-finalists in the 2002 World Cup
13. The only person to have scored a hat trick in a World Cup final. Geoff ____________
14. Brazil beat which host nation 5-2 in 1958 to win the World Cup?
16. Cameroon and which other African nation have reached the quarter-final of the World Cup – the furthest an African team has made?
17. Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya. Which of these four North African nations has never appeared at a finals?
18. Sent off in the 2006 World Cup final
19. First person to win the World Cup as a player
and a manager?
20. Juste Fontaine scored the most goals in one World Cup than anyone else. Which country is he from? continue

We are in the run-in to many of the European league’s title races. If we look at the Premier League, it is Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham in the top four, while in La Liga Real Madrid are first, followed by Barcelona, Valencia and Mallorca.

Most league tables are based on how many points a team has. How about these top fours? How are they decided?

Imaginary Tables

	Premier League	La Liga
1	M United	Barcelona
2	Arsenal	R Madrid
3	Sunderland	Espanyol
4	Man City	A Madrid

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In this week’s quiz we ask how much you know about La Liga in Spain? The answers will appear tomorrow.

1. Which team has won most La Liga titles?
a. Barcelona
b. Real Madrid
c. Valencia
d. Athletic Bilbao

2. Which was the last team apart from Barcelona or Real Madrid to win La Liga?
a. Deportivo La Coruña
b. Atlético de Madrid
c. Valencia
d. Villareal
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How much can you remember from the footballing world in 2009? Who were the winners and losers over the past 12 months? Try languagecaster’s end-of-year quiz below and see how much of a football fan you really are! Answers can be found by subscribing to our newsletter here or by listening to next week’s podcast. There are 20 questions in all. Good luck!

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1. Name the recently-crowned champions of the following countries’ leagues?
a. Argentina -
b. Brazil -
c. Japan -
d. USA -

2. Which three teams were relegated from the Premier League in 2009?

3. Name the four semi-finalists of the 2009 Champions League.

4. Racism reared its ugly head on many occasions this year but what’s the name of the UK’s anti-racism in football group?

5. How many countries that qualified for the World Cup this year have done so for the first time ever?

6. Which Brazilian club side does Ronaldo play for?

7. Manchester City’s new manager Roberto Mancini has managed three Italian clubs, which ones?

8. How many of the 20 Premier League clubs currently have a manager from England?

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