In this football language post we look ahead to some of the big games taking place in Europe this weekend and in particular four of the biggest games of the season that are taking place on Sunday – a real Super Sunday. 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 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: Super Sunday – El Clasico, Le Clasique and Derby d’Italia DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Learning English Through Football team. I hope we are all doing well and enjoying the football – how did your favourite team get on this week? Well, my team Tottenham had a mixed week with an away victory at Newcastle in the Premier League before losing to Vitesse from the Netherlands in the Europa Conference League on Thursday. Oh, they were very bad! I think our other member of the languagecaster team, Damon, who of course is in Tokyo, is feeling much happier after his side’s thrashing of Watford last weekend and then they followed that with a wonderful 3-2 win in Madrid against Atlético. Now on our forum, someone asked whether the phrase used by Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to describe the win as ‘dirty’ was the same as an ‘ugly win‘ – here’s how the UK newspaper The Guardian reported his words: ‘The dirty points are often the most important, and they were dirty tonight…’. So yes, this fantastic description of a hard-fought win for his side, so I think yes, it’s the same expression as ‘an ugly win‘ or ‘winning ugly‘ and this describes a situation when a team doesn’t play well but still wins. Indeed, to win ugly is often seen as a mark of champions which will please Jurgen Klopp and all Liverpool fans including Damon of course! Now Liverpool play their arch rivals – that’s their big, very big rivals, Manchester United this weekend but their are lots of other huge matches being played all across the big leagues in Europe this weekend, actually all on Sunday. The expression ‘Super Sunday’ is used by TV companies to advertise their Sunday football show here in the UK but this doesn’t always mean the games are exciting or ‘super’ but this weekend we definitely have a ‘Super Sunday’. So on this week’s show we preview some of the big games…no, the biggest games from Spain, England, Italy and France that all take place this Sunday.