Football Shout-out: After the match

Jack: Hello and welcome to Premier Skills English - Football Shout-out 

Rich: Football shoutout is the series that teaches you the language you need when you’re watching the game.

Jack: Hi everybody my name’s Jack 

Rich: and my name’s Rich and welcome to our latest Football Shout-out where we talk about the English you need when you’re watching football.

Jack: If you listened to our last lesson, you will remember this:

Jack: Another long throw coming up. They’re just going to launch it again. 

Rich: It’s all they do. That’s it. Get it out! Clear it!

Jack: Nice. Down the line. Pass it. Go on go past him.

Rich: Corner.

Jack: Get it swung in. Ahh! They’ve played it short again. Pass it. That’s it. Penalty!!

Rich: Outside the box. Free-kick.

Jack: We never score free kicks come on. He’s never going to get it over the wall.

Rich: Top corner this. You watch. Crossbar! How unlucky!

Jack: Penalty! Handball!

Rich: Which way is going to put it?

Jack: Down the middle, I reckon.

Rich: Goal. He got a hand to it but he was never going to stop that one.

Rich: Our last lesson was all about what we shout when your team has a set piece like a corner or free-kick. If you haven’t heard the lesson, there is a link on the side of this page for you to go back and listen and learn lots of phrases and words we use in these situations.

Jack: This lesson is all about what fans say after a match. Listen to this:

Rich: What a game!

Jack: I’m exhausted and I only watched it on TV!

Rich: I think we got away with it, to be honest.

Jack: No way! We were much the better team.

Rich: Yeah, but I couldn’t believe it when they missed their second penalty. 

Jack: OK, I suppose we were hanging on a bit at the end but the referee had a stinker. Neither of them should have been penalties.

Rich: Hanging on? They were camped in our half for the whole second half.

Jack: Some great last-ditch defending though. It was all hands on deck at some points.

Rich: The keeper has to be my man of the match. He pulled off three or four worldies!

Jack: So, who do you think we’ll get next?

Rich: Could be Brazil? I think we can beat them too!

Jack: In the conversation, we were talking after our team had played. The situation was that we had won the game.

Rich: That’s definitely better because when my team lose, I don’t speak for about 24 hours!

Jack: So, our conversation was definitely more useful if you want to learn a few football phrases!

Rich: I thought that we’d been lucky to win the match. I said; ‘I think we got away with it’. This is used to say that we were lucky and that we might not have deserved to win.

Jack: But I thought we deserved to win, so I said; ‘we were much the better team’.

Rich: You changed your mind though, and used the phrase ‘hanging on at the end’. This is an expression to say your team was under a lot of pressure at the end of the match.

Jack: You might also want to talk about the players, referees and managers and whether they had good games or not.

Rich: Jack said that ‘the referee had a stinker’, which means a very bad performance.

Jack: And Rich said, ‘the goalkeeper was man of the match’ which means he was the best player on the pitch. You can also say that it was a man of the match performance.

Rich: I said that the goalkeeper pulled off three or four worldies. This is a really difficult sentence to understand.

Jack: To pull something off means to make or achieve something and a worldie is something amazing. So, it means the goalkeeper made three or four amazing saves.

Rich: I don’t think worldie is even in the dictionary yet, but it will be soon!

Jack: Another couple of idioms that we used in the conversation were connected to defending. They were last-ditch defending which is similar to last moment and all hands on deck which means everybody needs to help urgently in a situation.

Rich: Oh and nobody was camping on the football pitch in our conversation. When you say a team is camped in a half it means they are there for a long time and aren’t moving.

Jack: We’ll look at these phrases and a few more in the lesson which you can find below this podcast.

Rich: Listen again. Do you understand everything now?

Rich: What a game!

Jack: I’m exhausted and I only watched it on TV!

Rich: I think we got away with it, to be honest.

Jack: No way! We were much the better team.

Rich: Yeah, but I couldn’t believe it when they missed their second penalty. 

Jack: OK, I suppose we were hanging on a bit at the end but the referee had a stinker. Neither of them should have been penalties.

Rich: Hanging on? They were camped in our half for the whole second half.

Jack: Some great last-ditch defending though. It was all hands on deck at some points.

Rich: The keeper has to be my man of the match. He pulled off three or four worldies!

Jack: So, who do you think we’ll get next?

Rich: Could be Brazil? I think we can beat them too!

Jack: So, there are a few expressions you can use after the match. 

Rich: We’ve got some activities to help you remember the phrases that we’ve been speaking about in the lesson below this podcast.

Jack: This was our final football shout-out lesson in this series, we hope it helped you learn some new football phrases.

Rich: Bye for now and enjoy your football.