Football Language Podcast: It’s the hope that kills you – Champions League Final 2019: On this extra football-language podcast we take a look at the football phrase, ‘it’s the hope that kills you‘ as I look back at the 2019 Champions League final and attempt to address the pain that football fans feel when their favourite team loses! Listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below – you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts – there are hundreds of them dating from way back to 2006! You can improve your English by reading the transcript as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several listening and/or reading activities for your learners. If you have questions or comments, email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF). It’s the hope that kills you – Champions League Final June 1st 2019. DF: Hello everybody, this is Damian from the languagecaster team and as it’s Champions League final time of year I thought it would be a chance to remind us of last year’s final which saw Liverpool win their sixth title and of course my favourite team Tottenham’s only Champions League final appearance. And so with this in mind I’ll be re-visiting the phrase, ‘it’s the hope that kills you‘ and other football language about the pain that football fans go through when supporting their team. There is a transcript, along with vocabulary support, with this podcast which means you can read along as you listen. You can also drop us a line and ask us any questions here at admin@languagecaster.com and maybe share with us a story when your team made you feel something like this. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Irish) Now, I have already mentioned that it’s a year since Tottenham lost in the Champions League final against Liverpool – so that was June 1st 2019. Spurs had never played in a Champions League final before and though they had reached the semi-final of the European Cup, way back in 1962, they had not come close to winning the biggest game in European club football in my lifetime. Until last season. Although deep down we knew beforehand that the team had not been playing well for a while, that our captain and talisman Harry Kane was not really fit and that Liverpool, five-times European Cup/Champions League winners, were 26 points ahead of us in the Premier League, we actually dared to dream that this beautiful, sunny June day might go down in history for all Spurs fans. We had hope. This was the hope that all football fans have before every game; not necessarily full of confidence but at least the thought that there is a chance, a possibility of a win, a draw, an upset of some sort that maybe sees the form book being thrown out of the window. And despite the form book very much telling us that we would not win, this had been an extraordinary Champions League campaign, with the team on the brink of elimination on countless occasions, which of course helped to fuel this hope even more. Remember that after their first three group gam...