2014-2015 archives - learn english through football by Damian Fitzpatrick

Football in China: It's Chinese New Year and so on this week's listening report we take a look at football in China.

The 2015 Women's World Cup taking place in Canada has reached the knock-out stage with the 16 remaining sides battling it out to see which nation will lift the trophy on July 5th. In this report we take a look at the favourites, dark horses and also-rans.

There is lots of football taking place around the world over the next few weeks including the 2015 Copa America that's taking place in Chile.

This weekend sees six cup finals taking place in Europe and so on this week's listening report we preview all six matches and even offer a prediction.

This weekend Liverpool number 8, Steven Gerrard, will probably play his last game for his boyhood side, Liverpool.

As the Premier League says farewell to Steven Gerrard, we have 8 facts for the midfielder who wears number 8. In part 1, we bring you the first 4.

In this report we take a closer look at the English Championship Division champions, AFC Bournemouth, who will join the Premier League next season.

The 2015 Argentinian Primera División sees its first Superclásico of the season and so on this week's report we take a look at the Argentinan top division.

The 2015 Champions League semi-finalists have been decided after the four quarter-final second legs took place this week and in this listening report we review these games and discuss where they were won and lost.

This weekend sees the 2015 FA Cup semi-finals taking place at Wembley Stadium and in this week's listening report we take a look at the two games and try and predict the finalists.

In a continuation of our series of reports on live games that myself and Damon have recently been to see, we feature the match between home side Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua from the 2015 Chinese Super League.

Back in 2007 we wrote a report on football in China and on the Chinese Super League, and we revisit the league in this weeka€™s report

A couple of weeks ago Damon watched his side Liverpool play in a Europa League tie against Turkish side Besiktas and this weekend it was my turn to watch some live football when I went to watch Hong Kong take on Guam in an international friendly.

The road to the World Cup in Russia has just started and in this report we take a look at some of the early rounds of 2018 World Cup qualification.

Impressions of Liverpool vs Besiktas in the Europa League second leg match in Istanbul.

2015 League Cup Final: This weekend sees the first of the English domestic trophies being decided when London rivals Chelsea and Tottenham meet at Wembley.

Derbies - Which player from your rivals would you like? Which player will be the key in big matches? What is the next biggest rivalry for your team?

It's Super Bowl weekend and on this week's listening report we take a look at some of the differences between American football and football - we have an interview with a fan of both sports David.

In, Success Breeds Success, we take a look at the richest clubs int he world, who they are, how they make money, and how they are dominating the game

we preview the 2015 African Cup of Nations that is taking place in Equatorial Guinea

In this week's listening report, we preview the 2015 Asian Cup that is taking place in Australia.

The 2015 Asian Cup starts this Friday in Australia and so we take a look back at the last competition from 2011 in this listening report from our archive.

On this week's main report we revisit one of our posts from the archive exploring Boxing Day and football traditions.

In this report we take a look back at fans reactions to rule changes and innovations in football in 2008 and see what has happened to the plans

For this week's listening report, we take a look at the team's in the 2014 Club World Cup.

For this week's listening report, we focus on the language of the run in, the end of the season when the title race is decided.

This week's listening report is the language of misses. In football the aim is to score goals, but more often than not, a shot will miss, not find the net.

Football clichés are expressions or sayings that have become so overused that they have lost some of their original impact. In football, clichés

This week's listening report looks back at the history of the European Championship through numbers.

On this week's listening report for learners of English we take a look at the women's game by comparing the Women's FIFA World Cup with the Men's competition.

Foreign Words in English Football: A brief description of some of the foreign Words in English Football

World Footballing Stereotypes - How would you describe some of the famous national teams?

This week's main listening report is a look at the Indian Super League in numbers.

This report looks at some of the language used to describe international friendlies.

We are always interested to hear about first experience at football games - on this week's listening report, Riaz, describes his first visit to see Arsenal

The Genoese Derby features in our main listening report - we focus on the city, stadium and two teams - Genoa and Sampdoria

Football in Scotland: Scotland has been very much in the news recently so on this week's listening report we take a look at the football played 'north of the border'

The 2014-15 Champions League Group stage kicks off next week so on this week's listening report we take a look at the 8 groups and try and predict a winner or two.

The European Championships qualifying games are about to kick off and we take a look at 3 minnows

Two weeks ago we looked ahead to the new Premier League season but we did not foresee the troubles that Manchester United and their new manager would be facing.

La Liga Preview: This week we take a look at the new Spanish season that kicks off this weekend.

In this report we look at some of the favourites, dark horses and possible strugglers in this season's Premier League.