English Through Football Podcast: May 2020 – Laying down a marker: On this week’s podcast, we spotlight another Liverpool match from the 2019-20 season. With the season in doubt and with Liverpool 25 points clear at the top of the Premier League, Damon picks one of his team’s key matches. Damian and Damon discuss why it was a key match and some of the football language used to talk about it. 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! 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 Damon=DB). Learn English Through Football Podcast: May 2020 – Laying down a marker Introduction DB: Hi there listeners and welcome to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. We hope you are well and not too affected by the COVID-19 health concerns. My name is Damon, and I’m based in Tokyo, and I’ll be talking to Damian in a moment, and he has been busy this week continuing Languageacaster’s look at great World Cup games, as well as introducing some more football language to our massive online glossary of terms at our site at languagecaster.com. Damian, first of all, how are you and tell us a bit more about the posts and podcasts you’ve been working on this week. DF: Hello Damon, hope you are well. And hello to all our listeners – yes, we hope you are all doing well during this tough time. I’m in a very stormy London – you might be able to hear the wind in the background during this recording – and of course still under lockdown. Now, I know that there has been no football for a long time – the last game in the Premier League was way back on March the 9th – but there has been quite a lot of talk about the possible return of football. The K-League, that’s the Korean League, has just re-started and such is the demand and the desire to watch live football, that the BBC here in the UK are showing some games. The Bundesliga in Germany will return next week and a lot of people will be watching not just the games – even though they will take place behind closed doors – but also how the matches are organised. DB: Yes, that’s a big move by German football and we’ll see just how successful it is, and already one second-tier team, Dynamo Dresden, has had to pull out of the first match because two players tested positive for COVID-19. DF: Now Damon, you mentioned the World Cup podcasts that we have been posting over the past few weeks and we have just published another one on Friday when we featured the Netherlands versus West Germany from the 1990 World Cup – Italia 90. It really was a great game that typified the strong rivalry between the two sides – red cards, penalties, great goals, near misses and of course controversy – while we also look back at some of the other highlights from that tournament in the podcast. *