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Football Phrase of the Week: Goal Fest
This podcast’s weekly football phrase is ‘a goal fest’, a phrase used to describe matches with lots of goals. Read the transcript for this post below, and for more football language and vocabulary you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions, then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com
DB: Hello there.and welcome to LearnEnglishThroughFootball.com’s weekly football language podcast. My name’s Damon and I am based in Tokyo. As always, we hope you are well and that you have been enjoying the football this week. How did your team do? It looks like my team, Liverpool, have turned a corner with back-to-back wins. Check out our main podcast earlier in the week, where we discuss that phrase – to turn a corner.
The phrase we focus on today from the past week of football is ‘a goal fest‘.
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Today’s Phrase
DB: OK, let’s kick off this short podcast with a definition of ‘a goal fest‘. Basically this word is made with two parts ‘goal‘ and ‘fest‘. Adding the suffix, the ending, fest to a noun, gives the meaning of a festival or celebration where there are a lot of the noun used. Music fest – a music festival; drink fest – a party with lost of drinking; a laugh fest – a gathering with lots of laughter.
So, a goal fest is a match with a lot of goals. The nuance given is that the match was also a little bit crazy, a little bit chaotic. It is a game high on drama and goals – but possibly lacking quality.
A 4-4 goal fest
DB: This Monday Manchester United hosted Bournemouth in the Premier League and the match ended 4-4. It was a goal fest!
(to) Serve Up
DB: The scoring went 1-0 to Manchester United before Bournemouth equalised to make it 1-1. Then it was 2-1 before Bournemouth scored two to make it 2-3. Man United then scored a brace themselves to make it 4-3 and looked set to grab all three points until Bournemouth drew level in the 84th minute to make it 4-4. Lots of goals, lots of action – a goal fest.
For the fans, it was a great watch. The two teams served up a thriller. To serve up means to provide, to give, like a delicious meal in a restaurant. Here, the football served up was really exciting. You can combine ‘to serve up‘ with ‘goal fest‘ to make to serve up a goal fest – to give the fans an incredible exciting game with lots of action.
Example from the Media
Here is the headline from The Canberra Times describing the Man United vs Cherries, that is the nickname for Bournemouth, match: ‘One for the fans: Old Trafford hosts EPL goalfest‘.
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DB: So, on today’s weekly football phrase we looked at goal fest and to serve up, both phrases used to describe matches. A goal fest is a match with a lot of goals – probably with six at least. And to serve up is to give, to provide – to serve up an exciting match. I wonder if you will hear or read these phrases in next week’s footballing action. Let us know if you do!
Enjoy all the football this week and we’ll be back soon. Ta-ra!
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