Learn English Through Football Podcast

We've got cliches, spoils and predictions in this week's Learn English Through Football podcast

This week's football phrase is 'share the spoils'

Football clichés are expressions or sayings that have become so overused that they have lost some of their original impact. In football, clichés

This week's Learn English Through Football podcast brings you the history of the European Championships in numbers for our main listening report.

This week's listening report looks back at the history of the European Championship through numbers.

For this week's weekly football phrase we explain the football cliche to put a shift in.

On this week's listening report for learners of English we take a look at the women's game by comparing the Women's FIFA World Cup with the Men's competition.

For this week's weekly football phrase we explain the verb to finish which is often used to describe how a team scores...

This week's podcast looks at Kenyan football, explains the phrase 'pick out' and features predictions from Kenya, Argentina, England and Italy.

For this week's weekly football phrase we explain the verb phrase to pick out.

MYSA & Mathare United feature in our listening report this week, which describes this successful community project involving football

This week's Learn English Through football podcast focuses in the main report on words borrowed from other languages in footballing English - words such as classic, rabona, and manita

Foreign Words in English Football: A brief description of some of the foreign Words in English Football

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?

On this week's Learning English Through Football Podcast we have our three regular features: a main report on football in India, an explanation of a new football phrase and some predictions

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.

This report looks at some of the language used to describe international friendlies.

One is used in several phrases connected with football, for example, one-two, and one way traffic, but this week we introduce another - one-on-one.

We are always interested to hear about first experience at football games - on this week's listening report, Riaz, describes his first visit to see Arsenal

When players are asked why they lost a game, often reply, 'The other team wanted it more.' This is our Weekly Football Phrase.

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast - Derbies galore! Merseyside, the South of France, a Basque clash, the Rhur, North London and the Derby of the Lantern!

The Genoese Derby features in our main listening report - we focus on the city, stadium and two teams - Genoa and Sampdoria

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 podcast for learners of English who love football we feature a listening report that focuses on Scottish football, while Damon explains a new football phrase 'to lay the ball off'

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 played 'north of the border'

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 lay the ball off'

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 predict a winner or two.

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.

In this week's Weekly Football Phrase we explain the cliche 'Six of one and half a dozen of the other'

The smaller teams in Euro 2016, hold up the ball, and international matches in predictions - languagecaster's learn English through football podcast

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

The European Championships qualifying games are about to kick off and we take a look at 3 minnows

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'

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.

On this week's podcast we preview La Liga - the favourites and those tipped to go down.

La Liga Preview: This week we take a look at the new Spanish season that kicks off this weekend.

What is one of the most common injuries in football? This week's weekly football phrase talks about the word - sprain

English through football podcast: The Premier League is back and in the first of our eighth season here at languagecaster.com we preview some of the teams we think will feature at the top and the bottom of the table.

In this report we look at some of the favourites, dark horses and possible strugglers in this season's Premier League.

2014 World Cup Review: Here is the second in our series of short listening reports that look back at the Brazil 2014 World Cup. After looking at the fans in the previous report this time we ask what was the good, the bad and the ugly of the tournament.

Football Podcast: 2014 World Cup review - Fans - The 2014 World Cup is over and Damon and Damian look back at some of the key words and phrases from the tournament in our final podcast of the 2013-14 season.

In the first of a series of short listening reports about the 2014 World Cup we take a look at some of the fans.

The World Cup is a week old already and all the teams have played at least once so in this report from Brazil we review some of the best and worst so far of Brazil 2014.

It is nearly time for the 2014 World Cup to kick off in Sao Paulo Brazil. Damian is on his way (the last I heard he was stuck in Sao Paulo airport on his way to Recife) and it's about time we made a few predictions on how the tournament will turn out.

In the fourth of a series of listening worksheets to help you practice your English we focus on Group D which includes Italy, England, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

World Cup 2014 Listening Worksheet: Group B. In the second of a series of listening worksheets to help you practice your English we focus on Group B which includes Spain, Holland, Chile and Australia.

Listening Worksheet: Group A In the first of a series of listening worksheets to help you practice your English we focus on Group A which includes Brazil, Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon.