Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster's Full Podcast's Good, Bad and Ugly section - a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets, football glossary and English for football phrases as well as the Learners' Podcast. UEFA: The European governing body of football (Michel Platini is [. Click to continue reading...

Fightback against racism in Europe and World Cup shocks all feature on this week's good, the bad and the ugly, our weekly review of the football news. Click on the links below to find out more about the stories. Good Finally UEFA are at least trying to do something about eliminating racism from football. Click to continue reading...

A quick video from US Soccer of US supporters taking booze buses from a couple of Chicago bars to the Trinidad match at Bridgeview. Watching it reminds me that I'm going down to D.C. for the US-Cuba World Cup Qualifier next weekend. I'll be embedded with the North Jersey Brigade, who are rolling down to the nation's capital 60 deep. Click to continue reading...

In the DFB Pokal second round, Heath Pearce and Rostock were successful, while Sal Zizzo and Hannover crash out in these midweek German cup games. Click to continue reading...

The Champions League group games started this week and languagecaster takes a look at how teams from la Liga and the Premier League fared. For learners of English check out our Football Language Resources with: Worksheets and transcripts Vocabulary lists ** NEW ** Football language glossary Transcript Damian - The Spanish Teams Spanish teams usually feature among the favourites at the [. Click to continue reading...

The Munich air disaster in 1958 devastated the soccer world after a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashed killing 23 of the 44 passengers on board, many of them United players and personnel. While the crash sent shockwaves through Great Britain and the soccer community, the news was also covered in the United States. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor has refused to fly with the Togo national team for their World Cup qualifier against Zambia after hearing rumours that the plane they were travelling on was going to crash. Adebayor, who has previously rowed with the Togo FA over bonus payments, caused further controversy when he delayed the flight by 24 [. Click to continue reading...

Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster's Full Podcast's Good, Bad and Ugly section - a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets, football glossary and English for football phrases as well as the Learners' Podcast. to spare (s.o's) blushes - to avoid embarrassment I think a [. Click to continue reading...

This week's the good, the bad and the ugly features the new boys in the Premier League, Olympic action and the unfortunate Valeri Bojinov. Click on the links below to find out more on the stories that appear on this week's show. The Good Good for some of the newcomers to the top-tier in England. First, Hull [. Click to continue reading...

Seeing a side as talented as Holland crash out of the Euros has really made me appreciate how much... Click to continue reading...

Before Freddy Adu or Jozy Altidore, there was Santino Quaranta, the great young hope for American soccer. He had loads of talent and looked to be a player around which a team could be built, so at age 16, DC United signed him to a pro-contract. All started out fine, but soon the pressure and loneliness of a child in an adult's world would get the better of him. Click to continue reading...

After 42 weeks of predictions, Damian is crowned languagecaster's Predictions King. Behind for the whole race, he pipped Damon at the post with a devastating show of predicting power in the last week. He got the result correct for ALL ten games - a first at languagecaster - with two perfect scores to bring [. Click to continue reading...