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Football Phrase of the Week: Touching Distance
In this football phrase of the week, we introduce the football phrase ‘touching distance’, connected with the Arsenal vs Man City game. You can read the transcript for this podcast 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.
Touching Distance
DB: Hi there everyone. This is Damon from the Languagecaster team. Welcome to our Football Phrase of the Week. I hope you are all doing well.
We are looking at the phrase touching distance, which is a word we can use to describe the weekend’s action. The phrase is connected with the Arsenal versus Manchester City game.
Going into this game, Arsenal were nine points behind league leaders Liverpool. That was a big gap, and the pressure was on Arsenal to win; lose, and the Gunners would be nine points behind having played a game more than Liverpool.
If you watched the weekend’s action in the Premier League, you will know that Arsenal thrashed a fragile Manchester City side 5-1. That meant they closed the gap on Liverpool to six points, to keep within touching distance of the leaders. Touching distance means close enough to still have a chance of catching a team above. The gap is still big, but it can be closed; catching Liverpool is not impossible.
Here is how the BBC used this phrase in their match report: ‘Arsenal have played a game more than Liverpool, but this impressive victory at least means they remain within touching distance of Arne Slot’s pace-setters.‘
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