In this football language podcast we take a look at some football phrases that use the verb ‘to pick up‘, including, ‘pick up a caution‘; ‘pick up some points‘ and ‘pick up a 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 pick up 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 a rather chilly London, with the other member of the team being Damon and he of course is living in Tokyo in Japan. Now, how is your favourite team getting on? Have they picked up a win recently? Has their form picked up? Did they pick up a bargain in the recent transfer window? Or do your players forget to pick up an opposition player at a corner? Well, you might have already guessed that the main focus of today’s football-language podcast is all about the verb phrase ‘to pick up‘ as we look at some of the ways we use it in football. 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 (Spanish fan).   To pick up Now, I mentioned that today’s focus will be on the verb ‘to pick up‘ which has lots of different meanings in the world of football. So, here are some of the words that we’ll be explaining in today’s podcast: * To pick up a caution or to pick up a booking * To pick up a player * To pick up a win * To pick up some form * A pick-up game Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Vietnamese). To pick up a booking/caution Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'6sQboKPDTI1kLSZ3CkM17Q',sig:'ywvRpYIOW2LGBnF7be5OxhNNkbD-zBe6feNcTHI3kr8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1246721552',caption: false ,tld:'com',