Episodes

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, we discuss the winter tradition in the UK of having fixtures all through the Christmas and New Year period.

On this week's main report we look at the tradition of playing football on the 26th of December - Boxing Day.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian focus on some of the tough guys who have played football - the hard men of the game. As always, we also look at some football language - this week Damian explains the phrase 'to wrong-foot the defence' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes one of the world's biggest derby matches: Fenerbahce and Galatasaray.

The hard men of football: On this week's main report we continue our look at the various positions on the pitch by focusing on the tough guys - the hard men.

This week's football phrase is 'to wrong-foot the defence', which means to do something to catch out the defence; to throw them off-balance or to catch them by surprise.

2012 FIFA Club World Cup: On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian focus on FIFA's Club World Cup competition taking place in Japan this week and next. As always, we also look at some football language - this week Damian explains the phrase 'mind games' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes another big derby match: Manchester City vs Manchester United.

On this week's main report we take a look at the 2012 Club World Cup, currently being held in Japan.

This week, languagecaster.com brings you the football phrase 'mind games'. You can understand more about the word or phrase by reading the transcript below.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian focus on another position on the pitch - this time it is the winger. As always, we also look at some football language - this week Damian explains the phrase 'a drubbing' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes one of the world's biggest derby matches: Vasco da Gama and Flamengo.

The winger is in the spotlight in this week's main report as we continue our look at the various positions on the pitch

Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase 'a drubbing'.

Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase 'super-sub'

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon and Damian focus on another position on the pitch - this time it is the full back; numbers 2 and 3. As always, we also look at some football language - this week Damon explains the phrase 'route one' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes the Rome derby

On this week's main report we continue our look at the various positions on the pitch by focusing on the full back.

Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase 'route one'.

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.