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On this week's show we review some of the football stories from this week in the first section of our podcast. We will also highlight some football language including 'end product'A and the classic cliche 'six pointer'. In our final section, predictions, we spotlight three games: Leicester v Hull (a real six pointer), Liverpool v Arsenal and Sunderland v Manchester City. Of course, you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB). Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2017 - Liverpool vs Arsenal 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 DF: You're listening to languagecaster's football language podcast. My name is Damian and I am here in a bright and Spring-like London and looking forward to the weekend's football. Damon, who is of course in Tokyo, will not be with us this week but we'll hope to have him back next weekend's games. Line up DF: Now, on today's show we will start with a look back at some of the stories from the world of football. Then we look at a couple ofA footballing phrases, including 'end product' and a very common football cliche 'six pointer' and we finish off with our predictions section in which we look at three games from the Premier League: Liverpool taking on Arsenal, Hull City travelling to Leicester City in a relegation six pointer and Sunderland facing Manchester City. DF: Yes indeed, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that message was in Irish. Now drop us a line at admin@languagecaster.com if you have the message a€œYou are listening to languagecastera€ in your language. Now next up we have our review of the football stories from the week. Good DF: Now to start with I am going to look at some good news and this story comes from the Asian Champions League. Hong Kong side Eastern won their first ever point in this competition after a 1-1 draw against Japanese team Kawasaki Frontale. Not only was this their first point, it was also the first time a Hong Kong side had participated in the group stage of the tournament and of course they are managed by the first ever woman to lead a team in the Champions League: Chan Yeun-ting. Well done to them. Sad DF: Now, this is not so much bad as sad as two big figures from the game passed away this week. French star Raymond Kopa was the first Frenchman to win the Ballon d'Or, while he also starred in the 1958 World Cup in which France finished third. He also played in the great Real Madrid side of the late '50s and won three European Cups and a whole host of league titles in France and Spain (Read Kopa's obituary here from the Guardian). The other footballer who passed away this week was former Scottish and Celtic defender Tommy Gemmell who was part of the famous 'Lisbon Lions' side that defeated Inter Milan 2-1 in the 1967 European Cup final. Gemmell scored in that game and indeed scored in another European Cup final in 1970 when Celtic lost to Dutch side Feyenoord 2-1 (Read BBC's obituary here). Follow us DF: Now here's the section where we remind you to get in touch with us and spread the word viaA our FacebookA page - Learn English Through Football - and on twitter where our handle is @languagecaster.A Thanks to all those who have liked us recently including Silambarasan, France Summy and Thim on Facebook and to Serkhan and Patty on Twitter. Remeber we also have an Instagram page where you can see some football pictures from Damon in Tokyo and myself here in London. If you have any football language questions then drop us a line at admin@languagecaster.com. Quiz question DF: OK, it's time for our weekly quiz question and this week it's connected with the relegation battle. We want to know what three times were relegated last season. Which three teams went down last year to the Championship? And the answer, of course, will be at the end of the show. Now next up we explain some