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Week 2: 2008-9 – Hull City and the Olympics

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Predictions: Week 2 2008/09 – (DF 2 – 3 DB)

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Damon edges into an early lead. This week we focus on the Olympic Men’s final and the Premier League. Italy and Spain kick off their leagues at the end of August. [TABLE=90]

Predictions: Week 1 2008-09

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Last season Damian cruised to a comfortable win and took the predictions crown from Damon. How about this season? This is the first week with most of the games concentrating on the new Premier League season. [TABLE=89]

Vocabulary: Week 1 2008/9

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Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster’s Full Podcast’s Good, Bad and Ugly section – a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets, football glossary and English for football phrases as well as the Learners’ Podcast. To be in full swing – to be up […]

Learners Podcast: Week 1 2008-09

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Podcast: Week 1 2008-09 – The Premier League is Back!

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Week 1 (08/09)

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While the leagues in Europe are just starting up there is still plenty of footballing news. This week transfers, Olympic football and Joey Barton all feature. The good The Olympics are in full swing and so is Olympic football. Not so important in Europe but taken very seriously by South America. So far it’s been […]

Derby to bounce back?

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A week to go until the Championship kicks off and much work has been going on in the off season. This being a post about Derby County, I can report that the squad has been ‘freshened up’ (whatever that means!) and several new faces have been brought in to replace those failures from last season. […]

Boring?

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Is the Premier League boring? Are the results too predictable? It does seem as though the ‘Big Four’ – Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United – seem to own the top four spots. But what about the other big leagues in Europe? [TABLE=87] Well, five teams in the premier League have contested the top four […]

Transfer dreaming…

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It’s the time for deals to be done, signings to be made and fans to dream about what might be for their teams. While Ronaldo’s off on move to real Madrid from man United has got most of the headlines, for me and other Liverpool fans it is the tiny hope that the Reds will […]

Summer Podcast 7 – Euro 2008 Final

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The good, the bad and the ugly – summer podcast 6 Euro 2008 Final

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Euro 2008 semi-finals, Copa Libertadores final, managerial casualties and appointments, as well as guns all feature in this week’s good, the bad and the ugly. Good It was good for Spain and Germany as they both won through to the Euro 2008 final. The Germans winning with a last-gasp winner against Turkey while Spain crushed […]

Predictions – summer podcast 6 (DF 23 – 9 DB)

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This is the very last set of predictions of the summer but there is no way back for Damon as he has been well and truly taken apart by Damian. Only two games this week but they are hugely important: the finals of Euro 2008 and the Copa Libertadores. [TABLE=85]

Predictions: Summer Podcast 5 (DF 19 – 7 DB)

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Damon’s dismal run continues. It looks like Damian has the crown all sewn up, but Damon will never say die! [TABLE=86]

Predictions: Summer Podcast 4 (DF 12 – 6 DB)

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Damian increases his lead again! It looks like Damon will lose his Summer Podcast Predictions crown as well! Will the start of the quarter finals change his luck? [TABLE=84]

The good, the bad and the ugly – summer podcast 3

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Hat-trick hero, favourites upset, hosts ‘go home’ and Polish sour grapes all feature in today’s good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links to discover more about each story. Good David Villa’s hat trick for Spain against Russia was the stand out performance after the first set of matches leading many to tip […]

Predictions: Summer Podcast 3 (DF 8 – 3 DB)

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Damian stretches his lead to 5 after gaining a 2-1 victory in last week’s predictions battle. Damon needs to get back to winning ways and today’s show features matches from the European Championships and World Cup Qualifiers in Asia and South America.   [TABLE=82]

Asian World Cup Qualifier: Oman 1-1 Japan

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On June 7 2008,  the Japan National Team had a match in the 3rd Qualifier of the FIFA World Cup 2010 against Oman. This was the same opponent as last week in Japan but this time it kicked off at 5:15 PM in Masqat, Oman. The weather was astonishingly humid and muggy and because of […]