Learn English Through Football Podcast

The Sack and the Hot Seat: This week's Podcast has a main report that explains the language connected with managers losing their jobs.

With the recent sacking of Manchester United boss David Moyes we take a look at some of the words and phrases used when a manager loses his or her job.

When do we use the phrase 'hot seat' in football?

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast looks back at one of our reports from five years ago: World Cup superstar Diego Maradona.

To assist or give an assist? Verbs and nouns in this week's Languagecaster's weekly football phrase

La Liga, football phrases, predictions - it's the Languagecaster Learning English Through Football podcast!

What do we mean by the phrase 'the last four' in football?

After last week's report on the English Premier League run-in we focus this week on Spain's title race in which three teams are battling for the 2014 La Liga.

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast features the 2014 Premier League title run in and asks which team will lift the trophy at the end of the season.

What does the expression 'can't buy a goal' mean?

This week's listening report focuses on the contenders for the Premier League title. We take a look the contenders and weigh up their chances.

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

This week's football expression is the verb to slice.

This week's football phrase is 'take a knock'

This week we interview author James Broadbridge about his new book on the mystery of the Jules Rimet trophy - The Lost Cup

An interview with James Broadbridge, author for atama-ii books, on his new book featuring the Jules Rimet Cup and Brazil.

In the world of football, how can you describe a long dribble? Check out this week's languagecaster weekly football phrase.

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast gets ready for the World Cup in Brazil with some key numbers and facts.

What does 'head-butt' mean?

To mark the fact that there are only 100 days left until the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil this week's listening report focuses on the build up to the competition.

This week's football expression is 'vote of confidence'

This listening report is all about the Euro 2016 Qualifying Draw

What is the meaning of the phrase 'to be out of the cup'? To be out of a cup competition' means a team is no longer involved or playing in a cup competition.

Our Football Phrase for this week is 'to be out injured'

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast takes a look at the MLS and also previews the upcoming Champions League knock-out stage.

Eyes in Europe are on the race for the titles, but in the USA, the MLS has made the news again with David Beckham's plans for a new team grabbing headlines.

What has the ancient pastime of church bell ringing and choosing a football team got in common? Languagecaster.com's weekly football phrase can tell you.

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast takes a look at the big leagues around Europe and summarises the situation at the top of each.

Most European football seasons have passed the halfway mark and so we take a look at the big five European leagues and ask who will finish champions come May.

This week's football phrase is 'terrace'

It's World Cup year and on this week's Listening Report we have chosen a report from our archives on World Cup stars. This report is on Der Bomber - Gerd Müller.

Who skied a penalty in a derby last week? And what does 'to sky' mean. Check out languagecaster's weekly football phrase.

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast focuses on Damon's favourite football team, Liverpool.

How has your team been doing so far this season. Damon reviews Liverpool's season so far in languagecaster's main report

What have Juan Mata and Lucas Leiva got in common? Check out this week's weekly football phrase!

This week's Learn English Through Football Podcast focuses on the Ballon d'Or, an honour that every professional footballer would love to win.

This week's listening report takes a look back at the Ballon d'Or 2013 award.

What does the expression 'schoolboy error' mean? Find out on this week's football language podcast.

This week's listening report looks back at the career of one of the all-time greats of world football, Eusebio, after the great Portuguese striker passed away recently.

This week's English for football phrase is the expression crunch game - do you know what this means?

This week's Learn English Through Football podcast focuses on the 2014 FA Cup Third Round

A new year, and for football fans in England it's FA Cup third round time. This week's listening report looks at this competition with some key numbers.

What phrase can you use to describe the perfect cross, or a free kick that is impossible to stop? Check out this week's English for football phrase.

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

What does the verb 'to rubbish' mean? This week's English for football phrase explains the phrase 'to rubbish reports'

Learning English Football Podcast Our three features on this week's learnA English through football podcast are: our main report, which features the language of the World Cup draw, a new football phrase, unplayable, and finally our predictions. The main features of the show can be found below: Listen only to the main report here - the transcript and vocabulary will help you understand key phrases and improve your language skills Check out this week's predictions here Listen to this week's football phrase 'unplayable' here. Learn English by asking a footballing question or questions about the English language in our forum section Football glossary - this is a huge collection of football vocabulary, football cliches and football phrases with definitions and examples. If you can't find a phrase you want to understand, send us an email or comment and we'll try to explain it for you. Listen to Languagecaster.com's football podcast A podcast is like a radio show that you can hear on your computer or your mp3 player (e.g. an i-pod). There are different ways of listening to our football podcasts: Subscribe to the show and receive automatic downloads every week Subscribe through i-tunes here Click for the latest shows here Click download on any of our podcast posts to save to your computer Podcast FAQ

This week's English for football phrase is the expression,which is becoming a bit of a cliche, 'unplayable'.

In this week's main listening report we look ahead at some of the key language that will be used in the 2014 World Cup draw taking place in Brazil.

In this week's podcast for learners of English who love football, we have our three regular features: our main report about football controversies, a new football phrase and our weekly predictions battle.

This week's English for football phrase is the expression 'to cut inside' which is often used to describe a player moving infield from wide...