Today’s football language post looks at the phrase, ‘to wrap up‘. You can read the transcript for this post below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.
(to) Wrap up
To win, to complete a victory – usually used to refer to a title race, e.g. the team wrapped up the title. This phrase can also collocate with the word ‘points’, i.e. City wrapped up the points with a third goal at the end which means that they won the match.
- Example: Manchester United wrapped up their 19th title on Saturday by getting a point at Blackburn.