Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Coppa Italia Final and Manchester City v Arsenal. On this week’s football-language podcast we discuss some of the language that has appeared in the football world this week, including the phrases, ‘dispatch‘ and ‘pitch invader‘. There’s a football language quiz question and some predictions too as the Coppa Italia final takes place on Wednesday as of course does the return of the Premier League. 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 in 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. We have also created a listening gap fill exercise based on a section of this podcast. If you have questions or comments then you can email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damon=DB; Damian=DF). Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Coppa Italia Final and Manchester City v Arsenal Introduction DF: You are listening to languagecaster.com. Hello everyone, we hope you are all safe and well and welcome to the podcast for fans of football who love the beautiful game of football. My name is Damian and I am based here in a sunny London and of course Damon is in Tokyo – how are you doing Damon? DB: Not bad Damian. It’s been a pretty wet and windy week here in Tokyo – the rainy season has arrived – but I’ve managed to watch a bit of football including the highlights of the Seville derby we mentioned last week. We were both right in predicting a Sevilla win. How about you? DF: Well, following the Bundesliga’s return to action four weeks ago, an increasing number of other leagues in Europe, like the Spanish top tier as you mentioned, have also restarted and this means I have seen quite a lot of football this weekend – all behind closed doors of course: I saw Bayern Munich score a late winner against Borussia Mönchengladbach to move them even closer to their 8th consecutive Bundesliga title, that’s 8 league wins in a row. DB: Yikes! DF: I also watched both Coppa Italia semi-finals, first up Juventus and AC Milan played out a scoreless draw which was enough for Juventus to go through on away goals and then I saw Napoli reach the final after they drew 1-1 with Inter to go through 2-1 on aggregate. Like you Damon, I also watched the Seville derby on Thursday night – a fairly comfortable 2-0 win for Sevilla against Betis and then I enjoyed watching Leo Messi on Saturday as his Barcelona side easily defeated relegation-threatened Mallorca 4-0 and I also saw Real Madrid host Eibar and run out comfortable 3-1 winners. Oh my God, I saw a lot of football this weekend! DB: Wow! I can only add some more highlights – Liverpool’s