Learn English Through Football Podcast: Turn Around (The Game‪)‬ Learn English Through Football

In this football language podcast we look at the phrase ‘turn around (the game)‘ which is used to describe comebacks in football. 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 then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.

 

Learn English Through Football Podcast: (to) Turn around (the game)

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DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. My name is Damian and I am in London where Spring is starting to slowly appear. I wonder what the weather is like in Tokyo where, of course, the other member of the Languagecaster team, Damon, is living?  Now, first of all, I’d like to apologise for the lack of podcasts in recent weeks – both Damon and myself have been pretty busy at work but we will be publishing some more football-language podcasts over the next couple of weeks – we’ll try and catch up – especially as we now approach the business end of the season.

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

DF: Yes, that message was in Spanish and remember that you can send us an audio in any language letting us know that you are listening to Languagecaster.com.

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Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (from a Besiktas fan).

DF: Now, on today’s show we will be looking back at three of the big games from the Premier League this weekend: Tottenham against Crystal Palace; West Ham versus Everton and the Manchester derby between City and United. Do you know what all these games have in common? Yes, they all finished 3-1 (Tottenham, West Ham and Manchester City all won). But all three matches had stoppage-time goals and in all three games the winning side had to come from behind to win. This means that although their opponents were winning at some stage in the game (so,