サッカーと英語 // Football & English

The current January transfer window is crucial for Newcastle United. With just one win in the first half of the Premier League season, they find themselves in the bottom three, in desperate need of reinforcements. There are many reasons players could be persuaded to move to Tyneside - playing at St James' Park in front of 52,000 passionate fans, the possibility of building a successful new era und...

He’s won trophies in Australia, Japan and now Scotland. He’s won a continental trophy for his country, lifting the Asian Cup with Australia in 2015. He’s set records and individually changed the course of history for coaches and football in Australia. Now with one of the biggest teams in Europe, he’s trying to restore Celtic back to the top of Scotland...and he’s brought some Japanese friends for...

Another edition of the world’s oldest football competition, the FA Cup, gets underway for Premier League teams this weekend. It is a competition with rich history, where clubs from all throughout the English football pyramid get the chance to play for their right to progress. Where clubs made of plumbers, publicans and office workers step onto the same stage as multi-millionaire, world class footb...

For many young football fans, it might just be the best job in the world. A pitch side seat to watch your heroes up close, and all you have to do is fetch the ball every now and then. Sometimes, however, this seemingly insignificant job can have a bigger impact on the match than you realise. Some managers have realised this, going as far as giving instructions to a ball kid on how slowly or quickl...

Peter Crouch: he's scored more than 100 Premier League goals, capped by England 42 times and scorer of 22 goals for his national team. He's played in Champions League Finals, won the FA Cup and numerous individual awards. But now? He's known as Peter Crouch: the podcaster. His show, alongside hosts Chris Stark and Tom Fordyce, has become *the* football podcast to listen to. But how has someone who...

They hunt in packs, often fuelled by alcohol, cocaine and other drugs. Though some are old enough to be fathers and even grandfathers, they're hooked on violence and confrontation, and the well out-of-date idea that by fighting with opposition fans, they're showing support for their club. Though their numbers have decreased as technology has progressed and the football culture changed, these peopl...

If you ever need proof that football is not an entertainment business, you only have to consider one thing: chants. In an entertainment business, the people respond to the quality of what they have paid to see. Gigs, plays, comedy shows, films, exhibitions, immersive theatre, whatever: if it’s good, people will like it and react accordingly. If it’s bad, likewise. Football isn’t like that, because...

This month marked 35 years since Sir Alex Ferguson was appointed as Manchester United manager, on the 6th of November 1986. It was one of the most inspired appointments in the history of football, and changed Manchester United and English football in ways that not many other people could claim. To recap all of those trophies he won at Manchester United: 5 FA Cups 4 League Cups 10 Charity / Communi...

適切な栄養補給をすることで接戦を制するための最後の力になると言っても過言ではありません。It's not exaggeration to say that fuelling your body properly can be the edge you need to win a close match.

Adelaide United player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current top-flight male professional footballer in the world to do so. The 21-year-old wrote on social media that he was "ready to speak about something personal that I'm finally comfortable to talk about in my life". "I'm a footballer and I'm gay," the midfielder said in an accompanying video. "All I want to do is play foo...

スパイク（フットボールブーツ）は、現在の形に辿りつくまでに長い道のりを歩んできました。1800年代のスパイクは固く重い素材でできており、仕事用の靴から派生しました。おしゃれでサッカーの一部を華やかに演出するものとなった今のスパイクは、クレイジーな色や挑戦的なデザインが主流となっています。番組では、トモとトミーがスパイクの歴史を振り返りながら、二人が昔履いていた懐かしの一足を紹介します。 // Football boo...

Discussing 'sportswashing', as Newcastle fans got their wish and they finally have new owners. An exciting time for them, whilst the rest of the footballing world looks on in concern.

An Australian own-goal kept Japan in the race for an automatic spot in next year's World Cup. Australia defender Aziz Behich put the ball into his own net in the 85th minute Tuesday to give Japan a 2-1 victory and six points from four matches in Group B, three points behind the Aussies and six behind Saudi Arabia. Goalkeeper Mat Ryan tipped a shot from Takuma Asano and the ball bounced off the pos...

With Australia travelling to Japan next week for a crucial World Cup Qualifier, Tomo and Tommy look back on the rivalry between the two teams, which really took off in 2006.

単純なように見えるPKには、多くの意味が含まれています。試合中に与られるPK、延長戦のあとのPK戦。GK対キッカーの対決は、心理戦、試合結果を左右する瞬間、トーナメントの雰囲気で勝負が左右します。スタジアムやテレビで見ている観客の存在も大きく影響を与えるでしょう。試合中、レフリーが笛を吹いてペナルティが蹴られるまで、1分ほどの時間に多くのことが起こるのも事実です。 For something that seems so simple, there'...

Fans will be allowed to stand at Premier League and Championship stadiums for the first time in more than 25 years as part of a pilot programme that begins on January 1. The Sports Ground Safety Authority is to invite expressions of interest from clubs in the two leagues to have pilots of safe standing this season. Clubs must apply to be part of the ‘early adopter’ programme by October 6. If appro...

ゲスト：辻翔子さん。後篇はヨーロッパ各国での生活した暮らしについて話を伺います。現在の仕事、 FIFAマスターの経験、ウルグアイでのドキュメンタリー撮影班のタクシードライバーがレコバのお父さんだったお話など。// Shoko Tsuji is joins us again to talk through her career, life in Europe, FIFA Masters, and the time she met Alvaro Recoba's Dad in a taxi in Uruguay.

Japan’s first professional women’s football league, the WE League, starts this weekend! Until now, the Nadeshiko League has been the top women’s league in Japan, however, the WE League has been established with the aim of creating a generation of professional women's footballers. The WE in WE League stands for ‘Women’s Empowerment’, with the goal of “becoming a driving force for women’s empowermen...

Months of speculation and clubs negotiating. Agents trying to get the best deal and players desperate to make their dream move. Then it happens! The transfer is done, and the player is ready to to get down to work. But there's one more important bit of business to be done: their squad number! 移籍市場の期間中はクラブ間交渉が行われ、ファンたちの憶測が飛び交います。エージェントは最高の契約を得ようと...

It’s the day that sends football fans and TV stations into a frenzy. Weeks and months of speculation, all coming to a head over the course of roughly 12 hours, as clubs, players and agents try to complete deals worth millions and millions of pounds. What is deadline day, why is it so important and what are some of the big stories and deals from over the years? 夏の移籍市場期間の最終日は、サッカー...

ポッドキャスト番組「サッカーと英語」が戻ってきました。眠れなかったEuro 2020後、中断期間を挟みこれから始まるサッカーシーズンに向けて準備をしていきます。毎週、トモとトミーでサッカー界のトピックを取り上げ、日本語と英語で語ります。 //Welcome back to Football & English! After a nice break following a busy and sleepless Euro 2020, we're back and ready for a huge season of football ahead. Every week,...

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Euro 2020 — or is it Euro 2021? — finally kicks off next weekend, and it’s set to be a cracker. 24 countries, playing across 11 host cities in 51 matches, will compete for the ultimate prize - to be the champions of Europe. This year’s tournament is one of the more complicated. The first to be played across the whole continent, with reduced crowds and extended squads, plus other changes to account...

Since the introduction of VAR, teams have been left to lament what might have been if their striker's foot was one size smaller; if the ball had been played half a second sooner. Goals have been allowed and disallowed, sometimes seemingly at random, with referees in booths drawing lines on a screen, often taking minutes to come up with a decision. The immediate joy of scoring a goal has been repla...