It’s April 1st which in some countries is known as April Fool’s Day so on this football language podcast we look at the phrase ‘to fool‘ which can be used in football to describe a situation when a player can deceive another player. There is a transcript with this listening activity along with some vocabulary practice and you can also check out our football glossary and football cliches pages for hundreds more explanations of the language of football/soccer. If you have questions or comments about this or any other phrase then email us at: admin@languagecaster.com. Learning English Through Football Podcast: To fool Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ElV0ONMYSbty2XNkKkwUfw',sig:'pztGg3392Tz_w01Mr9sEqZKOJ7vy5z_5a7FamYdF8Fo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1247776380',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Learning English Through Football team. I hope we are all doing well and enjoying the football. I’m one half of the languagecaster team and I’m based in London, while the other member of the team is Damon and he of course is living in Tokyo in Japan. Now, today is April 1st which here in the UK is known as April Fool’s Day – a day when people play tricks on each other. And so on this podcast I am going to talk a little bit about the verb ‘to fool‘ and some of its other forms that are used in football. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (Zambian fan). Now, don’t forget there is, of course, a transcript to go with this podcast – it’s great for teaching and learning English – and if you have any questions or comments about any of the football language in this report then you can contact us at: admin@languagecaster.com or ask a question on our football language forum. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (Greek fan).   To fool Now, I mentioned that today’s focus will be on the verb ‘to fool‘ which means to deceive or to trick someone. So, for example in football there are many ways that teams and players can fool opponents by using different tricks and skills. A player can fool another player by maybe nutmegging them – by putting the ball through another player’s legs. We can also say that a player fooled the referee – maybe by diving or pretending to be hurt – so that the referee will give them the decision. The referee was fooled by the dive and awarded the penalty, for example.