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Learn English Through Football Podcast

Damon Brewster and Damian Fitzpatrick

Learn English Through Football Podcast: A show for football fans to improve their English language skills

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4:28

Weekly Football Phrase: Penalty Shootout

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2026/02/17

In this football phrase of the week we look at the phrase, 'penalty shootout' after the FA Cup 4th Round tie between Birmingham and Leeds was decided this way.

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7:18

Learn English Through Football Podcast: Bullet Header

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2026/01/31

In this week's football-language podcast we look back at some of the football language from the final round of games from the 2025-26 Champions League group stage,

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9:28

Learn English Through Football Podcast: Missed...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2026/01/25

In this week's football-language podcast we look back at the AFCON final between Morocco and Senegal and discuss missed penalties

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10:17

Learn Englsh Through Football Podcast: 2026 FA Cup...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2026/01/18

In this week's football-language podcast we focus on the language of the 3rd round of the FA Cup, including the cliche 'the magic of the cup'.

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3:24

Football Language Podcast: (to) Ping

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2019/11/16

In this football language podcast we look at the verb 'ping' and the two main ways it is used in football.

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16:31

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2019...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2019/05/05

Learn English Through Football Podcast - 2019 - Champions League Semis: Boom! The season in Europe is nearly at an end, which means big games pretty much every day. We talk about the Champions League semi-final first legs in our review section this week. We also have a goalkeeper-themed football language quiz and phrase. And of course, we look ahead to the second legs in Europe's top cup competition as well as three key games in the Premier League title race in our predictions.

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10:46

English Through Football Podcast: 2018-19 Liverpool...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2018/10/02

A huge weekend of football sees the two unbeaten sides at the top of the Premier League table face off, the top two in Serie A play each other, the Rome derby and the Madrid derby also take place! We'll talk about the good, the bad and the ugly news from last week, feature some English phrases used in football, including the cliche 'no one is biger than the club' and try to predict some of the games in the Premier League in our predictions competition.

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8:14

Football Languagecaster Podcast: Gunners v Spurs

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2017/11/21

This weekend sees the Gunners take on Spurs; Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur in the North London Derby - a massive game for both teams.

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9:57

Learning Football Through English: International Break

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2017/09/07

It's international break and World Cup qualifiers this week. The season has only just started in most of Europe but September brings international matches. The whole world looks towards the World Cup in Russia in 2018, hoping their country will make it to the finals. The transfer window has also closed this week in Europe with some big deals being done and lots of disappointment too. We'll be looking at the qualifiers and transfers in our review section on this week's podcast. There is a transcript

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10:05

Learn English through Football Podcast: The Top Four...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2017/05/07

In this week's show we focus on the race for the top four spots in the Premier league. These places secure a berth in the Champions League.

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1:01

Weekly Football Phrase: Three-peat

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2016/05/14

This week's weekly football post explains the phrase three-peat. Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here. Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase Three-peat For this week's English for football phrase, we explain the term three-peat. The term uses the verb to repeat and adds the number three. To repeat, means to do again, and adding

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0:53

Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Go over the top

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2016/04/23

This week's weekly football phrase is goA over the top. Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here. Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase (to) Go over the top The verb phrase to go over the top, is used to describe a dangerous tackle. In this kind of tackle, a player tackles the opponent not the ball - the foot goes over the top of the

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1:12

Weekly Football Phrase: Off the Mark

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2015/11/07

Today's football phrase is 'Off the mark'. Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here. [print_link] | Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase Off the Mark This phrase means to get a first win or a first goal. Mark in this sense, means the start line of a race, so to get off the mark, means to start the race. Every season, strikers especially

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2:46

Listening Report: Football Crests – England’s North East

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2015/02/14

This week's Listening Report takes a look at the football crests of three English teams from the North East of England.

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0:36

Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Side-foot

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2015/01/17

In this week's football phrase we introduce the football phrase 'to side-foot' , a phrase which describes a type of pass or shot.

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1:14

How do you Pronounce… the 2014-15 Premier League Teams?

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2014/09/12

Students often ask about the pronunciation of players and team names. In this short recording you can hear Damon and myself going through the names of this season's 20 Premier League sides in alphabetical order.

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0:57

Weekly Football Phrase: Hold the Ball Up

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2014/09/05

Does your team have a striker who can hold the ball up? Languagecaster's weekly football phrase - to hold the ball up

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4:04

Listening Report: 2014 Champions League Quarter-finals

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2014/03/31

In this main listening report we look ahead to this week's 2014 Champions League quarter-finals and try and predict a winner.

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10:10

Learn English Through Football Podcast: Managers and...

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2013/12/25

The language of football manager's career, handbags and winter football all feature this week in our English through football podcast.

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0:48

Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Lob

Learn English Through Football Podcast ·

2013/04/20

How many different kinds of shots are there in football - here we explain one of them - to lob

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