Languagecaster Newsletter: Week 8

Good for the three London teams in the Champions League, bad refereeing decisions in England and Alex Ferguson in the ugly section again. These stories and more all feature on this week’s languagecaster.com’s football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section.
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PREDICTION

This week’s featured match sees Chelsea play Arsenal in a London derby. Below are Damon and Damian’s predictions

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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION

This weeka€™s English for Football phrase is a€˜a turn up for the booksa€˜. This phrase is used when you want to say the result of a match was surprising or unexpected. The phrasal verb, to turn up, means to arrive or appear unexpectedly. The final part of this phrase, a€˜the booksa€˜ refers to the records or information of a€˜bookiesa€˜ a€“ a casual word for people or companies that take bets on sports, especially horse racing. At the beginning of the season in la Liga, Hercules beat Barcelona, and last week West Brom beat Arsenal in the Premier League. Both results were a surprise, they were both unexpected, each one was a turn up for the books.
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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:

How many London clubs have won the English league title?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

Answer next week.

The answer to last week’s question was Ajax have won 4 European Cup/Champions League titles
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