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Vocabulary: week 17

Here are some of the words and phrases that we used on this week’s show.
You can practise the vocabulary with our online crosswords here
Check out the BBC’s football vocabulary page here

  • to break (a story) – to reveal, to make public

Officially this hasn’t been broken yet, but it looks like Kaka will win the Ballon d’or.

easy-peasy – very easy (often used by children / or when adults are joking)

Japan’s groups is easy-peasy.

  • to hammer – to beat a team convincingly, easily, by scoring a lot of goals

Aston Villa absolutely hammered Blackburn 4-0.

  • to shrug off – to get rid off, to ignore, (in football to beat or go past when being tackled)

Torres shrugged off two defenders to score against Porto.

  • to get the chop – to be sacked, to lose your job

Poor Billy Davies gets the chop at Derby.

  • to kick in – to start

We predicted the managerial merry-go-round would kick in now, and it has.

  • trouble flared – trouble started, trouble broke out

Trouble flared before, during , and after the match.

  • appalling – terrible, very bad

Thats an appalling group: it’s so easy!

  • to reckon – to think

Hans, what do you reckon about Germany’s group?

  • be/get cocky – too confident

When Australia get cocky, they always lose.

  • powerhouse – dominant

Two of the major powerhouses in Asian football are Japan and Korea.

  • easy-peasy – very easy (often used by children or by adults when joking)

Kohei thinks Japan’s qualifying group is easy-peasy.

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