Bench? Dugout? What's the difference. This week's Weekly Football Phrase explains.
What do we mean by the phrase 'the last four' in football?
In the world of football, how can you describe a long dribble? Check out this week's languagecaster weekly football phrase.
This week's football expression is 'vote of confidence'
What does the expression 'hot favourites' mean? This week's English for football phrase looks at the word 'favourites'
This week's English for football phrase is 'to net'. This verb is another way of saying to score a goal, for ...
What does the phrase 'to see off' mean? Find out by coming along to languagecaster.com
What does 'to be denied a point' mean in football? This week's English for football phrase is the expression 'to be denied'.
For this week's football phrase, Langaugecaster explains a way of describing a shot or a pass - to dink. We look at ...
What do we mean by a goalmouth scramble? This week languagecaster.com introduces the English for football phrase 'to scramble'.
This week, languagecaster.com introduces the English for football phrase 'scrape into' which means that a team...
Which players combine well in your team? Find out ore about this phrase in our Weekly Football Phrase post at languagecaster.com
Weekly Football Phrase: To start the new season, we look at the phrase 'curtain raiser', a phrase which is used to introduce the first...
This week, languagecaster.com brings you a common football cliche - 'They wanted it more'.
Outshine: When a player (or another team) is better than you; to be beaten by someone else' performance.
To not admit defeat; to refuse to give up; to have a great fighting spirit. What cliche describes this attitude? Check our Football...
'To be on loan' - When a team lends a player to another team for no money. A new football phrase in languagecaster's glossary
Do you know what the phrase 'on paper' refers to in football? Listen to our weekly football phrase to find out.
To sign a player: When a club buys a new player from another club.
This week, languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase 'to play off the park'
This week languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase 'to ship goals'.
How would you say the score 0-0? Zero zero? Check out 'nil' in languagecaster's football glossary.
This week's English for football phrase post takes a look at some words in our glossary that describe shots.
This weeka€™s English for Football is to be in the running. If you say a team is in the running, you mean that they have a chance of...
Languagecaster's football glossary - What word often follows these: sliding, fair, hard, crunching? Check out The Football Glossary
(to) Fall through: When a transfer or deal does not go ahead despite looking like it would do for a long time.
The FA: The Football Association, the organisers of the FA Cup and the England national team. They also look after ...
A bullet header: a powerful header that flies, like a bullet from a gun, towards the goal.
The 2012-13 Champions League knock-out stage starts next week with 16 teams battling it out to try and reach the final that takes place on...
What's the meaning of the phrase 'to hang up your boots'? This phrase is used when a player decides to stop playing the game...
Underdog - The team that no one expects to win (opposite of favourites), usually popular with fans (see also 'minnow').
On this week's football podcast for learners of English, we focus on the 'romance of the cup' and look at some of the language associated...