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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 football phrase of the week we explain the expression, 'Foul and abusive language' after Real Madrid player Jude Bellingham was...
In this week's football-language podcast we look back at some language from the Champions League play-off games, including 'settle the tie'...
In this football phrase of the week, we talk about the football phrase 'under the lights', connected with theupcoming Merseyside derby.
This football language podcast looks at some football language from an FA Cup tie between Man United vs Leicester, including to squeak past.
In this football phrase of the week we introduce the football phrase 'touching distance', connected with the Arsenal vs Man City game.
In this football language podcast we look back at some of the language from this week's European action, including the phrase 'seal a spot'.
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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.
The Language of Predictions: On this report we feature some of the language Damian and Damon use when describing football predictions.
This week's main report discusses some of the language of referees.
Setting up goals: Last week, we looked at the language of scoring goals and this week we continue, but we focus on how to describe setting up the...
On this week's main report we look at one of the key positions on the football pitch: the goalkeeper
On this week's main listening report we focus on some of the language that is used with one of the most controversial rules of the game: offside.