Learn English Through Football Podcast

In this weekends FA Cup round games Portsmouth take on Bournemouth. Both are on the south coast of England, and along with Southampton, they make up three big south coast teams. We take a look at their history, nicknames and crests in this week's listening practice report.

To fashion a chance: To create a chance of scoring a goal

Last week we looked at the Premier League title race and as the Bundesliga has returned after its winter break we thought we'd take a look at the German title race on this week's listening practice report.

Nod home: When we use the phrase to nod the ball we mean that a player has used his/her head to move the ball - to head the ball...

On this week's listening practice report we wonder which team will win this season's Premier League title.

What is the meaning of the phrase 'Romance of the Cup' in football?

On this week's learning English through football podcast we feature the 2016 English FA Cup third round.

FA Cup 1976: On this week's listening practice report, Damon takes a trip down memory lane and describes the 1976 FA Cup final - played...

For this week's English for football phrase, we discuss the word 'starting XI'

[print_link] | Subscribe Our main listening practice report this week sees Damon give his thoughts on Liverpool's first half of the season. Damon is a Liverpool fan and talks about the manager, best players, flops, highlights and more. You can listen to the report by clicking on the link above, and you can also read the transcript of the report (below). There are also explanations of key vocabular...

This week's English for football phrase is 'to see out the game'

Our main listening practice report this week focuses on the FIFA Club World Cup, taking place in Japan starting this week.

Today's football phrase is 'back to back victories

On this week's show, in our predictions section we have four games from the Champions League, as well as Newcastle v Liverpool, a fixture that usually equals lots of goals! In our listening practice report, we have a post from our archive. This time it is from 2011 and we discussed some of the best overseas players to have played in the Premier League in England. Following this Damon explains the...

[print_link] | Subscribe In this week's main listening report, we feature a post from 2011 from our archive. We asked the question, who are the best ever foreign imports to have played in the Premier League? Of course, there are plenty of talented overseas stars playing now, but this report focuses on those who stayed for an extended period and left a mark on the game in England. You can listen to...

(to) Pick out: Today's football phrase is one from a question on our forum pages:  'to Pick Out'.

On this week's languagecaster podcast we focus on the last 16 places up for grabs in the Champions League in our main listening practice section

This week's English for football phrase is 'up for grabs' which is used to describe a situation in which a team has a chance of winning a game or qualifying for the next round of a competition after looking like there was no chance at all.

A month ago, we took a look at the Champions League groups after two games. Now, all teams have played five or the six group games and we review the current situation.

2015-16 Clásico: This week we feature the biggest game in La Liga: El Clásico in our listening practice report, following this Damon explains the football expression 'to be fit' and we have some huge games in our predictions battle

Listening Practice: 2015 El Clásico: Three Things to Watch out for

This week's football language phrase is simple but very important; it is 'to be fit'.

On our main listening practice report for this week's podcast we take a look at the Euro play offs and the teams' chances of getting through

What is the meaning of the word 'contenders' in football?

In this listening practice report we look ahead to the four 2016 European Championship play-off matches and try to offer a prediction!