I hope someone scores a “Worldy” — A world class goal (mostly said by Harry Redknapp and Paul Merson.)

A goalkeeper could have a “Howler” — A shockingly bad mistake by a player.

“Twelfth Man” — can either mean one of the referees seems to be helping out a team, or, a football team’s fans are acting like a “Twelfth Man” because of their extraordinary support for their team.

“Hit the Woodwork” — The ball strikes against the goal post or crossbar.

Europa league all time Top scorers

Little Englanders was an insult coined by the British establishment and leveled at English people who took the principled stance against expansion of the British Empire around the time of the Boer War in South Africa.

Modern Little Englanders want independence for England – not because they think England is better than other countries but because under current arrangements England has no parliament – despite parliamentary democracy being invented in England.

Those who hate the English have twisted to term Little Englander 180 degrees to mean intolerant and bigoted. Nothing could be further from the truth. Little Englanders want the same rights for the English as every other country has.

Thank you for your comments and thank you for stumbling upon our site, which is now in its sixth year. We hope that you can find something of interest to you, especially as you work so closely in the world of football and use English (and Spanish) to do so.

We will certainly be checking out http://www.dfb.de for information about German football in the near future.

To respond to your points:

“1) Football Language Quiz 3, I honestly cannot subscribe to the explanation provided for the expression “to be let off the hook”, the actual meaning perhaps best described by the following phrase – Rangers (insert any other club) have been unconvincing in recent weeks and their fans will have left Ibrox (insert stadium name accordingly) aware that they were let off the hook.”

You are correct, sir! The mistake is completely ours and is because of the contradiction of the question using the passive for (to be let off the hook) and the answer needing the active sense (to let off the hook). This has been corrected, and is down to the sloppiness of the author – myself. Sometimes, we allow deadlines to take precedence over careful checking.

“2) Football Language Quiz 4 calls for test takers to insert “inviting”, which, when clicked on, gets a “X”, whereas the patently wrong “inverted” gets ticked off as correct. A software error no doubt but still.”

Again – yes, you are right. That was unfortunately not a software problem, just flagging the wrong item to be given as ‘correct’.

Both of these problems have been addressed, and we would welcome any more comments you have on our site and material – particularly the podcast, which we aim to publish every Saturday. Perhaps you would be interested in being our guest predictor this week? We ask one football fan to go head-to-head with myself (Damon) and Damian (the co-aothor of the site) each week in predicting six or seven matches. If you would like to help, let us know and we’ll send you the fixtures and all you need to do is email us back with your guesses.

Here is last week’s predictions post: < http://languagecaster.com/languagecaster-predictions-acn-quarters-and-europe/>

Damon
http://www.languagecaster.com