Learn English Through Football Podcast

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.