This week's Learn English Through football podcast focuses in the main report on words borrowed from other languages in footballing English...
Foreign Words in English Football: A brief description of some of the foreign Words in English Football
What is a rabona? this week's football language post explains this special move.
World Footballing Stereotypes - How would you describe some of the famous national teams?
Weekly football phrase - what does lacklustre mean when describing a team's performance?
This week we feature some huge matches from England, Greece, France and Germany and of course the first El Clásico of the season.
Although not really a football phrase, the expression behind closed doors has been in the football news this week...
Football Language Quiz: Glossary E-F
Low centre of gravity: Sometimes in football we use this phrase to describe a player - not usually a tall one - who has really good balance...
On this week's Learning English Through Football Podcast we have our three regular features: a main report on football in India, an...
This week's football phrase is the term 'back four' which refers to a team's defence.
This week's main listening report is a look at the Indian Super League in numbers.
On this week's languagecaster predictions. we go around the globe for England, to France, through Spain and Italy and on to India.
This report looks at some of the language used to describe international friendlies.
We are in the thick of Euro 2016 qualifying games for the 2016 European Championships to be held in France - and that's what we focus on...
One is used in several phrases connected with football, for example, one-two, and one way traffic, but this week we introduce another - one...
We are always interested to hear about first experience at football games - on this week's listening report, Riaz, describes his first...
When players are asked why they lost a game, often reply, 'The other team wanted it more.' This is our Weekly Football Phrase.
A first at language caster.com - our predictions section has a game from the Hong Kong top division in this week's fixture list!
This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast - Derbies galore! Merseyside, the South of France, a Basque clash, the Rhur, North...
The Genoese Derby features in our main listening report - we focus on the city, stadium and two teams - Genoa and Sampdoria
All six of the games that we look at in this week's predictions battle are derbies. The Merseyside and North London derbies will dominate...
There are many ways to describe scoring a goal with your head and on this week's phrase we take a look at one of them - 'to head home'
In this week's football review section we look back at some of the football stories from last weekend, including stories from Spain and...
In this week's podcast for learners of English who love football we feature a listening report that focuses on Scottish football, while...
Football in Scotland: Scotland has been very much in the news recently so on this week's listening report we take a look at the football...
There are some very big games in this week's predictions competition between Damon, Damian and our weekly guest who this week is Cole - a...
There are many ways to describe a pass. It is one of the most important actions in the game. This week we look at one of these ways - 'to...
In this week's football review section we look back at some of the football stories from last weekend including: Chelsea, Newcastle and...
On this week's podcast we have a Champions League group stage preview, a cliche and some great matches in the predictions section
The 2014-15 Champions League Group stage kicks off next week so on this week's listening report we take a look at the 8 groups and try and...
Students often ask about the pronunciation of players and team names. In this short recording you can hear Damon and myself going through...

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