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On this week’s show we review some of the football stories from this week in the first section of our podcast. We will also highlight some football language including ‘end product‘A and the classic cliche ‘six pointer‘. In our final section, predictions, we spotlight three games: Leicester v Hull (a real six pointer), Liverpool v Arsenal and Sunderland v Manchester City. Of course, you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2017 – Liverpool vs Arsenal
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DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football language podcast. My name is Damian and I am here in a bright and Spring-like London and looking forward to the weekend’s football. Damon, who is of course in Tokyo, will not be with us this week but we’ll hope to have him back next weekend’s games.
Line up
DF: Now, on today’s show we will start with a look back at some of the stories from the world of football. Then we look at a couple ofA footballing phrases, including ‘end product‘ and a very common football cliche ‘six pointer‘ and we finish off with our predictions section in which we look at three games from the Premier League: Liverpool taking on Arsenal, Hull City travelling to Leicester City in a relegation six pointer and Sunderland facing Manchester City.
DF: Yes indeed, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Irish. Now drop us a line at admin@languagecaster.com if you have the message a€œYou are listening to languagecastera€ in your language.
Now next up we have our review of the football stories from the week.
Good
DF: Now to start with I am going to look at some good news and this story comes from the Asian Champions League. Hong Kong side Eastern won their first ever point in this competition after a 1-1 draw against Japanese team Kawasaki Frontale. Not only was this their first point, it was also the first time a Hong Kong side had participated in the group stage of the tournament and of course they are managed by the first ever woman to lead a team in the Champions League: Chan Yeun-ting. Well done to them.
Sad
DF: Now, this is not so much bad as sad as two big figures from the game passed away this week. French star Raymond Kopa was the first Frenchman to win the Ballon d’Or, while he also starred in the 1958 World Cup in which France finished third. He also played in the great Real Madrid side of the late ’50s and won three European Cups and a whole host of league titles in France and Spain (Read Kopa’s obituary here from the Guardian).
The other footballer who passed away this week was former Scottish and Celtic defender Tommy Gemmell who was part of the famous ‘Lisbon Lions’ side that defeated Inter Milan 2-1 in the 1967 European Cup final. Gemmell scored in that game and indeed scored in another European Cup final in 1970 when Celtic lost to Dutch side Feyenoord 2-1 (Read BBC’s obituary here).
Follow us
DF: Now here’s the section where we remind you to get in touch with us and spread the word viaA our FacebookA page – Learn English Through Football – and on twitter where our handle is @languagecaster.A Thanks to all those who have liked us recently including Silambarasan, France Summy and Thim on Facebook and to Serkhan and Patty on Twitter. Remeber we also have an Instagram page where you can see some football pictures from Damon in Tokyo and myself here in London. If you have any football language questions then drop us a line at admin@languagecaster.com.
Quiz question
DF: OK, it’s time for our weekly quiz question and this week it’s connected with the relegation battle. We want to know what three times were relegated last season. Which three teams went down last year to the Championship? And the answer, of course, will be at the end of the show.
Now next up we explain some football language that has emerged from the week.
Football Language: End product
Now the first phrase is ‘end product‘. This football phrase is a way to say a€˜goala€™. The goal or aim of football is to beat your opponent by scoring more goals than they do. The passing, tackling, movement are all done as a team try to score a goal and stop the otherA team from scoring. The final objective is to score; a successful result is a goal. Final objective can also be said as end result, or end product, so the end productA of football is to score a goal. However, usually this phrase is used in the negative a€“ no end product. This describes a team trying to score but who fail a€“ thereA is no end product. AnotherA way to say this is the team lacked a cutting edge. Here is an example from The Guardian newspaper: ‘But for all this good work there is a tendency to be obviously busy but lack an end product. Hea€™s scored no goals in 26 games for England.
Football Language: Six pointer
The next football phrase is the football cliche ‘six pointer‘ which is often used towards the end of the season. At this time of year, teams are trying to win the title or secureA positions for important cup competitions the next year, such as Champions League places in Europe. There are otherA teams who are near the bottom of the table and want to avoid relegation. If two teams at the top of the league, or two from the bottom, play each other, the match is very important, and is referred to as a six pointer. The winning team gets three points and the losing team a€˜losesa€™ three points: so, 3 + 3 = 6. The winning team denies the otherA team the chance to get 3 points. If feels like there is now a six-point gap between the teams, even if it is in reality an imaginary one. So, for example in this quote from theA BBC, Middlesbrough midfielder Adlene Guedioura says Saturdaya€™s trip to Selhurst Park, to face his old club Crystal Palace, is a a€œsix-pointera€ in their battle against relegation.
Predictions
DF: Now next up we have our weekly predictions competition including a six pointer between two teams at the bottom end of the table. Remember you can try your luck in our monthly predictions – our March one has just started – or for the whole season by coming along to our site languagecaster.com and then clicking on the link on the top of the homepage. And I’m currently on 198 pointsA while Damon is on 155.
Leicester City v Hull City
DF: The first game this week is a big relegation six-pointer – two clubs battling the drop – between last season’s champions, Leicester City, and visiting Hull City. The away team have found some form in recent times under new manager Marco Silva but of course Leicester are coming off a 3-1 win over Liverpool under new manager Craig Shakespeare. I’m going for a 1-1 draw between these two sides.
Liverpool v Arsenal
DF: I remember watching these two sides play each other on the opening day of the season – with Damon actually – and applauding Liverpool’s wonderful attacking play but after that defeat against Leicester on Monday the Reds need to bounce back against top four rivals Arsenal. I think this will also be a draw which would suit my team Spurs nicely!
Sunderland vs Manchester City
DF: Well, on Sunday bottom of the table Sunderland host Manchester City who will be hoping to continue their recent good form. I am going for a comfortable away win – maybe 4-1 to City – to leave Sunderland rooted to bottom spot.
Quiz Answer
DF: OK, just before we go here is the answer to our quiz question. We asked you which three teams were relegated from the Premier League last season and the answer is Norwich City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United. Well done if you managed to get all three of those correct and of course we will have another quiz question for you next week.
Good bye
DF: Now, don’t forget to get in contact with us to let us know what you think of the show or whether you have a football language question and you can do this by emailing us at admin@languagecaster.com, coming along to our football language forum or posting a comment on one of our posts.
Next week we have both Premier League and FA Cup games to look forward to. Enjoy all the football this weekend and see you next week. Bye bye.
Check out our glossary of footballing phrases here
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