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This week saw Champions League and Europa League quarter-final first legs, but these were overshadowed by the attack on the Dortmund team bus. This news will feature on our review section this week. We also have predictions, with games involving Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham, your posts, football language from the week and of course you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB). Learn English Through Football Podcast:A Dortmund Subscribe to the show and receive automatic downloads every week Subscribe through i-tunes here Click for the latest shows here Podcast FAQ Transcript of the show DB: You're listening to Languagecaster's football-language podcast. Hello everyone, my name is DamonA and I am here in a lovely sunny TokyoA hoping to talk to DamianA down the line in London. Damian, how are you doing? You must be happy with your team, Tottenham, still pushing Chelsea for the title! DF: Hello Damon, good to hear from you - it's a little chilly here in London but at least it's not raining! It's been another busy week of football with Champions League quarter-finals taking place. Did you manage to see any? DB: None! I need to work on my satellite subscription! Maybe when Liverpool get back in the Champions League next season? You? DF: I saw the Dortmund-Monaco game which was high on emotion indeed. By the way, as for Spurs, yes, we are doing well but I am still a little nervous of today's game against Bournemouth. Line up DF: Now, what else Damon do we have on today's show? DB: As you've already mentioned, we've had an eventful week of football in Europe, overshadowed by the attack on the Dortmund bus, more on that in our review section - the good, the bad, and the ugly. After that we have two football phrases for you 'to sky the ball over the bar' and a 'sweet left foot'. DF:A And after all of that, we'll finish up with our predictions and we're going to look at three of the big games in the Premier League. We're well and truly in the business end of the season! DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that was in Polish. We'd love to haveA some more voices and languages in our collection:A you can record the message a€œYou are listening to languagecastera€ in your language, or "Hi I'm a fan of (whatever your team is), and you're listening to languagecaster.com' - this message in English!A Just send it on to admin@languagecaster.com. DF: Right Damon, let's start the good, the bad and the ugly; what was good this week? Good DB:A Well the big news thisA week was the attack on the Dortmund team bus ahead of the quarter-final fixture against Monaco and the cancellation of the game.A Some good did come out of this terrible event, though. Football showed its good side, as Dortmund citizens volunteered to allow Monaco fans to stay overnight in their houses. A wonderful, warm gesture. Brilliant from the city of Dortmund and the individuals who opened their doors to help their French counterparts! Bad DF:A Yes. A great gesture from those football fans - football truly can be the beautiful game. But the way in which the game was hurriedly re-scheduled for an early evening kick off the next day was pretty bad. Although Dortmund could have asked for a longer delay and there is no direct evidence that UEFA forced the club to play the re-scheduled game so soon after the attack, it does show, perhaps, that clubs, officials, and executives are more interested in TV money, sponsorship, and keeping to the calendar than they are in how the players might have felt. It must have been difficult for the Dortmund players to fully concentrate on the game - a bad decision to let it go ahead so soon! What about ugly? Ugly DB: A Of course the attack on the bus, three explosions, was ugly, and it really is lucky that Marc Bartra's injuries were relatively light, but I'd also like to mention theA assault of a footballer in a bar in England last week. Ross Barkley of Everton w