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Football Language Glossary
The football language glossary is a page with a huge selection of football words, phrases and vocabulary that are organised in alphabetical order – it is like a football dictionary. You can find all kinds of football cliches, expressions and technical terms, as well as a variety of categories about many football-related subjects: transfers, football nicknames, match-day language, managers and much more.
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In this week's football-language podcast we look at some phrases from horse racing used in football, including neck and neck.
In this football phrase of the week we look at the expression, 'shooting boots' after Arsenal's game at Ipswich Town in the Premier League.
In this week's football phrase we look at the phrase X-goal thriller, a phrase used to talk about exciting games. We will focus on the...
In this football phrase of the week we look at the phrase, 'round the keeper' after Manchester City player James McAtee scored for...
In this podcast we take a look at language, including roll your studs over, describing a great goal scored in the CL quarter finals this...
In this football phrase of the week we look at the phrase, 'to seal the title' after PSG won their fourth Ligue 1 title in a row
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On this week's main listening report we look at relegation and the language used to describe it.
On today's football language listening post we look at some words and phrases connected to when a team is knocked out of a cup competition - the...
On today's football language listening post we look at some words and phrases connected to creating chances in football and in particular the verbs...
5 questions about football derbies: There are many derbies being played around the world this weekend so we thought we'd look at rivalries...
The Language of Postponements and Cancellations: In this football language post we explain some of the language connected to postponements and...
For this week's listening report, we focus on the language of the run in, the end of the season when the title race is decided.
This week's listening report is the language of misses. In football the aim is to score goals, but more often than not, a shot will miss, not find...
Foreign Words in English Football: A brief description of some of the foreign Words in English Football
The Language of Diving: This listening report examines the language used to talk about diving.