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It's FA Cup 3rd round weekend and so on this week's show we will be taking a look at some of the big games. Maybe there will be a cup shock as a minnow defeats a favourite as form goes out the window? On this week's show we feature three of the games from the FA Cup a€“ Chelsea v Peterborough, Tottenham v Aston Villa, and Liverpool v Plymouth,A while we also introduce an English for football phrase 'scorpion kick'. You can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB). Learn English through Football Podcast: 2017 FA Cup 3rd Round 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. Hello everyone and a happy New Year to you all wherever you may be. My name is Damian and I am based here in a wet and rather miserable London while of course Damon is over in Japan in Tokyo. Now Damon, unfortunately, is not with us this weekend but he'll be back for next week's show. Maybe he is still recovering from all the football over the festive season! There is no Premier League football this weekend as the FA Cup takes centre stage in England with teams from the top two divisions joining 24 other teams from the lower two leagues, as well as some non-league sides. Football fans will no doubt hear phrases such as David and Goliath tie, giant killing, minnows, form going out the window and of courseA the romance of the cup over the weekend. So, the main focus of this week's show will be the FA Cup 3rd round. Line up DB:A  Now on this week's podcast we have our regular look back at the football news in the good, the bad and the ugly and this week we feature stories from the FA Cup as some of the games have already finished. After that, we take a look at the football expression 'scorpion kick' and then we will have our regular weekly quiz question, answer some of your football-language questions and look ahead to some of the cup games taking place tomorrow Sunday.A  DF: OK, let's kick off with some of the good news from the world of football. Good DF: It has been a good FA Cup weekend for the two Manchester clubs as City thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Friday night - a game I went to see at the London Stadium - while Manchester United eased into the 4th round after beating Championship side Reading 4-0. Their captain Wayne Rooney scored his 249th goal in 543 games for United which equalled the club record set by Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton. So, well done Wayne Rooney. Bad DF: It was a bad night for the Hammers as they were thrashed, trounced and yes, hammered by a resurgent Manchester City 5-0 for whom David Silva was wonderful. It could have been a lot worse for the home side as City eased off towards the end but the West Ham fans were not happy with the result, the manager or the performance. A bad night for the London club. Ugly DF: Nothing too controversial but the all-Premier League tie in the FA Cup third round between Sunderland and Burnley finished 0-0 in front of only 18.000 fans and was described by the BBC as being 'dire' which of course means it was a terrible match. DF: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com. That was in Italian and if you'd like to record your own version of the message, 'You are listening to languagecaster.com' in another language then you can send it on to us by emailing here at admin@languagecaster.com. Follow us DF: You can also follow us on Instagram - and this week we have photos from my visit to the London Stadium to see the West Ham - Man City FA Cup game and Damon's end of year celebrations with his Tokyo football team. We are also on FacebookA  - our page is Learn English Through Football and on twitter - our handle is @languagecaster. Thank you to all those who have done so in the past few days including Lakhan, Wojciech, Omer and Otmane on Facebook and Laura, Jose and