Podcasts: 2006-07 Archives - Learn English Through Football

Football Language Podcast: Review of 2007 Season

The 2007 Asian Cup Final and Beckham's Debut: In the last of our special summer podcasts before the new season, the languagecaster team discuss the Asian Cup final as well as David Beckham's MLS debut. There is also a new poll in our vox pop section and of course, the weekly predictions' battle continues.

Our free podcast covering the main football news from around the world. Damian makes a come-back in the predictions battle and also looks at the UEFA Cup, and of course, there are all our regular spots. Error: Damon wrongly says that Mexican side Guadalajara beat Houston in the CONCACAF cup. They beat DC United. Download the worksheets, vocabulary lists and transcripts here. If you have questions or comments, email us at: [email protected] (Damian=DF, Damon=DB). Subscribe to the show and receive automatic downloads every week Subscribe through i-tunes here Click for the latest shows here Podcast FAQ Check out our glossary of footballing phrases here If you have any suggestions, contact us at [email protected]

Welcome to this week's podcast, on this week's show we look at football rivals and footballing cliches

Languagcaster's podcast for learners of English. Damian and Damon bring two sections of the full podcast with free worksheets and listening exercises to football fans around the world

On this free podcast the Champion's League with English football fans' views, a review of the football news, football for English and predictions. All brought to you by Damon and Damian the languagecaster team. Enjoy! Worksheet week 17 pdf Vocabulary week 17 pdf

This week's show features news from Thailand on the ASEAN cup, a look at international friendlies, and our usual review of the week, English for football, vox pops and predictions.Damon is in the UK and Damian is reporting from Thailand. You can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at [email protected]. Contact UsA  Forum Glossary [paypal-donation] http://gty.im/73199010 This week's worksheet, answers, transcript, vocabulary and English for Footbal Worksheet week 15 pdf Vocabulary_15.pdf Transcript Yes, I am in Thailand at the moment and though Damon thinks I am only enjoying the beach I am also enjoying the football here. Thailand is a football-crazy country a€“ there are games of football being played everywhere, people wear the colours of their Premier League favourite team and there is more football on TV here than anywhere else I know. Now, Thailand has never qualified for a World Cup finals though they did reach the final group of 6 for the 2002 finals but with a FIFA ranking of 125 it does not look as if they will challenge in the near future, particularly as Australia now play in the Asian qualifiers and the fact that Asia may well lose a qualifying spot for future tournaments. The country is joint hosts (along with Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia) for the upcoming Asian Cup tournament, which is the Asian equivalent of the European Championships. Thailand is not expected to win and may even struggle to qualify from their group, which includes Australia, Oman and Iraq though they will play their home matches in front of 35.000 noisy locals at Bangkoka€™s Supchalasai Stadium. To warm up for the continenta€™s major competition in July, the Thai team participated in the ASEAN Cup this month along with seven other teams in the region and after defeating Vietnam in the semi- finals (which I went to see) they played the two-legged final against Singapore which has recently become one of Thailanda€™s biggest rivals. The first leg was played in Singapore last week and in a tense and often physical match and the score at 1-1 the referee awarded a dubious penalty against Thailand who promptly walked off the pitch. They stayed there for 15 minutes before finally coming back on. Singapore scored the penalty and held on to win the first game 2-1. Not a very good advertisement for the game in South-east Asia. For the return game in Bangkok, tensions were high. Newspapers from both countries were full of accusations of cheating against the other nation and security was very tight. The game was tense again but also scrappy and though Thailand scored first they never looked comfortable and with just 8 minutes to go Singapore equalised and held on to win their 3rd ASEAN Cup. This was a big disappointment to the Thais who had hoped victory in this tournament would help their chances in the forthcoming Asian Cup and the World Cup qualifiers that start next year. It looks like a difficult road ahead for the football-crazy nation.

Learn English Through Football Podcast 14: Beckham in USA (2007) This weeks show: What is the MLS in America? What do Americans think about David Beckham's move to the USA? and Damian sends some reports from a beach in Thailand! Next week an ASEAN Cup report. Of course, our regular features: vox pops, the good, the bad and the ugly, predictions and English for football. Worksheets, vocabulary and transcripts

2007 Bundesliga Preview: Welcome football fans to Podcast 13. On this show all the soccer news from around the world

We also look at David Beckham's LA Galaxy Move and on this week's Football for English we discuss the expression take the game by the scruff of the neck

In this report Damian talks about the 2006 winter transfer window

On this week's podcast for learners of English who love football, Damon and Damian take a look at the winter transfer window.

In the first podcast of 2007 we preview the FA Cup 3rd Round from England, which also has a worksheet for learners of English...

Damian and Damon look ahead to the FA Cup 3rd Round by looking back at some of the history of the FA Cup.

Football review of 2006 for learners of English

In the this podcast for language learners who love football, Damian and Damon ask four football fans about the best and worst of the 2006 season

In the seventh Languagecaster.com podcast Damon and Damian look back at some of the main football news of the week. They also discuss football in Argentina, introduce a new English for football expression, as well as the regular predictions battle.

This week's English for Football expressions are connected to losing your job and focus on the insecurity of being a Premiership manager.

In the 6th Languagecaster.com podcast Hans discusses the upcoming Champions League matches, Brendan reviews Manchester Utd vs Chelsea and the languagecaster team review the big stories in the football world and continue with the predictions battle.

In this week's show, Damian and Damon take a look at four Premier League dark horse teams and their managers.

In this week's show, Damian and Damon feature a report about sexism in football, review the week in football and predict some of the big games this weekend

In our third Languagecaster.com podcast Damon and Damian look back at some of the main football news of the week.

This week's English For Football looks at the expression dark horse

Welcome to the second Learning English through Football podcast with Damon and Damian. On this week's show we talk to an England fan about their recent poor showing as well as a Manchester City fan on why he is a City supporter.

This week's football phrase is 'winning streak' which is used when a team wins football games in a row; they dona€™t lose.