Learn English Through Football Podcast: Hijack a Move

In this week's football-language podcast we look at two phrases from the past week: one to do with a shock cup win and the other connected to the transfer window: cup upset and hijack a move. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions about the phrase or our podcast then you can contact us here.



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Hello

DF: You are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast.



DF: Hello everyone I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the football. My name is Damian and though I am usually based in London, this week I have been travelling around Spain and Portugal and it has been really interesting to see and hear lots of football language from those two countries!



I am currently in Porto in the north of Portugal and Porto, of course, are a huge club here - they have a big football history and they have won the European Cup/Champions League on two occasions. This weekend they played against current champions Sporting last night and the locals who I was watching the game with were delighted as Porto won 2-1 away in Lisbon to go top of the table.



Now, Damon, the other member of the Learn English through football team, is usually in Japan but he’s also travelling so we won’t be hearing from him in today’s show but we will be talking about his favourite team Liverpool later on in our predictions section. We will also look back at some football language from the week, including some phrases to describe the shock defeat of Manchester United in the Carabao Cup by a team from the fourth division or tier, while we also explain a phrase that has been used quite a lot in the transfer window: hijack a move.



Stinger: Al-Hilal (Sudan) football fan)



Now, before we move on to talk about the football language, we'd like to let you know that we are continuing to make some changes to our site. We are now known as learnengishthroughfootball.com as we have changed our domain name. This means we are no longer using languagecaster.com. But don't worry you can still find us even if you still click on the old name and you will still hear and see languagecaster on many parts of our site and on our podcast. Now we did this change because we felt it better reflected what we are doing; so helping learners of English to improve their listening and vocabulary through football!.



Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Irish)



DF: Yes, that message was in Irish and we will have some more stingers or messages throughout the show in different languages. Try and guess what languages they are and we will let you know what they are at the end of the show.



And of course it would be great if you could send us a message in your own language - just tell us, 'You are listening to the Learn English through football podcast' in any language that you know.



Right, here's another stinger for you and I will give you a clue, this language is spoken in Europe and I was visiting there earlier on in the week!



Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Catalan) 

Football Language: Cup Upset

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So, this week saw one of the biggest shocks in English cup football when League Two side Grimsby Town (from the fourth <a href="https://learnenglishthroughfootball.