Learn English Through Football Podcast

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian focus on another position on the pitch - the centre back, or stopper.

Today we explain the phrase 'let a lead slip' in our weekly football phrase

Following last week's main report on goalkeepers, this week we look at another positions on the football pitch: the centre back.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian look forward to one of the greatest match-ups in world football - Boca Juniors against River Plate.

On this week's main report we look at one of the biggest games in world football: the Superclasico between River Plate and Boca Juniors.

This week's football phrase is 'against the run of play', which is used to describe a situation when a team scores a goal when they...

On this week's main report we look at one of the key positions on the football pitch: the goalkeeper

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian look forward to some more World Cup qualifiers taking place this week.

This week's main listening report focuses on the international minnows of the game.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian take a look at the big football stories from the week and profile the career of Leo Messi.

Leo Messi: This weekend sees the first clasico meeting of 2012-13 and so on this week's main report we profile one of the best players in the world: Barcelona's Lionel Messi.

On this week's football podcast, Joe, an American football fan, shares his experiences of visiting Boca Juniors' famous ground La Bombonera.

2012-13 Champions League Preview: This season's Champions League has just kicked-off and so on this week's listening report, complete with worksheet, the languagecaster team preview the group stages of Europe's biggest club competition.

On this week's football podcast, Damon and Damian preview the 2012-13 Champions League in our main report. We also look at some football language - this week we are highlighting the phrase 'to be held by' before finishing with our weekly predictions battle.

On this week's football podcast, Damian takes a look at his team Tottenham Hotspur and previews their season.

This is languagecaster's fourth main listening report of the 2012/13 season, and after Damon looked ahead to his team's Liverpool's prospects for the upcoming season it is the turn of Damian to do the same for his favourite side, Tottenham.

On this week's football podcast, Damian takes a look at the qualification system for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

The World Cup in Brazil is still nearly two years away but the qualifying process to decide the 31 countries that will join hosts Brazil in the finals has been running since June 2011. On this week's report we take a look at how each of the FIFA Federations decide which teams will qualify for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

2012-13: The Reds - a look at the coming season: This week Damon makes some predictions about his team, Liverpool's chances in our main report. We look at some football language from our huge glossary page before finishing with our predictions.

This is languagecaster's second main listening report of the 2012/13 season, and Damon looks ahead at his team, Liverpool's, season.

On this week's football podcast, Damon and Damian preview the 2012-13 Premier League in our main report. We also look at some football language - this week we are highlighting some phrases from our huge glossary page before finishing with our weekly predictions battle.

2012-13 Premier League kicks off: This is languagecaster's first main listening report of the 2012/13 season, and Damian and Damon give their predictions for the coming season in England.

Today's main report reviews the first round of matches in Group C from the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. You can listen to the report by clicking on the link below, while vocabulary support (in bold) appears at the foot of the report for learners who wish to improve their English. A Subscribe: Main Listening Report The Good It was a refreshing change to see a team take on Spain, an...

Euro Listening Report: Group B Review: We continue our reviews of the first round of matches from the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine by looking at the group of death: Group B. You can listen to the report while there is also a worksheet.

Today's main report reviews the first round of matches from the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine and starts with Group A. There is also a worksheet with answers for those who wish to practice their English.