In this week’s football review section we look back at some of the football stories from last weekend including: Chelsea, Newcastle and Iker Casillas
Weekly Football Phrase: A Hiding
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In our listening report this week we focus on Manchester United’s poor start to the 2014-15 season and in particular their defeat in the Capital One Cup and so this week’s football expression is ‘a hiding’
Listening Report: 2014-15 Manchester United’s Early Season Troubles
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Two weeks ago we looked ahead to the new Premier League season but we did not foresee the troubles that Manchester United and their new manager would be facing.
Football Language: Free Transfer
The transfer window is open for another ten days or so and so today’s football phrase is ‘free transfer’.
Weekly Football Phrase: Double the advantage
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What does the phrase ‘to double the advantage’ mean in football?
Weekly Football Phrase: Head-butt
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What does ‘head-butt’ mean?
Weekly Football Phrase: To be out of the cup
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What is the meaning of the phrase ‘to be out of the cup’?
Football Glossary: Quadruple
Quadruple: In football the quadruple refers to winning four different trophies or competitions.
Listening Report: The Ballon d’Or 2013
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This week’s listening report takes a look back at the Ballon d’Or 2013 award.
Football glossary: To be axed
What does the phrase ‘to be axed’ mean?
Weekly Football Phrase: To rubbish
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What does the verb ‘to rubbish’ mean? This week’s English for football phrase explains the phrase ‘to rubbish reports’
Football Glossary: One-two
What does a ‘one-two’ in football mean?
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Football Badges and the Merseyside Derby
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On this week’s football podcast for learners of English we feature the language of football badges as well as look back at some of our predictions and we also explain a new football expression.
Weekly Football Phrase: Favourites
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What does the expression ‘hot favourites’ mean? This week’s English for football phrase looks at the word ‘favourites’
Football Glossary: Scuffed shot
What is a Scuffed shot? This kind of shot is when a player does not really hit the ball cleanly but instead mishits the ball.
Football Glossary: Opponent
Opponent: This is a member of the other team or the team you are playing against.
Languagecaster Predictions: 2013 FA Cup Semi-finals
On this week’s languagecaster predictions we feature big games from England’s Premier League, as well as the two semi-finals from the English FA Cup.
Languagecaster Main Report: 2013 Champions League Quarter-finals
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This week sees the first legs of the Champions League quarter-finals taking place. This year sees three Spanish sides, two from Germany and one from France, Turkey and Italy – that’s right, none from England – all battling to make the final that takes place at Wembley in May.
Football Glossary: Sneak a win
Sneak a win: to get something without fully deserving it, to obtain something in a sneaky way. A team can sneak a win or sneak a point or a draw.
Football Glossary: To be Relegated
(to be) Relegated: To move down a division because of poor performances – to finish in the bottom 2 or 3 positions in the table