In this week’s football language podcast we look at words and phrases that describe a team suffering from a bad run of results: the language of poor form. Check out our glossary of footballing phrases here, and visit our site to access all the previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions, contact us at admin@languagecaster.com. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'mPd_fdLQSM5G53cCq0QzMw',sig:'e8ZIHBwXqkyED4gPOKQkHpYKjCE01UyEbEEcrkBb7_0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231709795',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Football Language Podcast: Poor Form DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Learning English Through Football team. I hope we are all doing well and staying safe wherever we are in the world. Now on this short football language podcast we take a look at some language associated with poor form – when teams play badly over a period of time. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Italian). DF: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Italian. Don’t forget that there’s a transcript to this podcast which you can access by coming along to our site. And you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or you can drop us a line at: admin@languagecaster.com. Right, let’s take a look at some of the words and phrases used to describe a player or a team not playing very well. What is the worse run of defeats in Premier League history? Good Form The meaning of form in football refers to how well or not a team is playing over a certain period of time. So, if a team is in good form it means they are playing well and winning games or maybe going undefeated for a few matches. A player can also be described as being in good form when they are consistently playing well and if a team or a player hits form then it means they have started to play well – they are playing like they should be playing, while to be in a rich vein of form refers to when a team is playing really, really well. Bad Form Of course, the phrase bad form is used to describe the opposite to this – so when a player or a team is playing badly we can say they are in bad form. If a team is playing poorly and cannot win a game we might hear the expression ‘can’t buy a win‘ which is a suggestion that no matter what they do, the team is unable to win. If a team is in bad form, on a run of poor form or out of form it means that they are not playing well and will not have much chance against a side that is in good form. A dip in form, or sometimes known as a blip in form, is not as bad as a poor run of form as it refers to something temporary; so maybe a team has lost or drawn a couple of games but then return...