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Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Luke's English podcast this episode is

all about football

Saturday afternoon excitement down the pub or going to the match listening on the

radio the results coming in on your phone the mixed emotions of a big game the joy

the tension the the disappointments, the

celebrations, the rivalries, the joy of being a child and playing football in the

park, jumpers for goalposts, to the international spectacle of the World Cup.

Huge moments of drama witnessed by the whole world simultaneously.

The star players, the controversial refereeing decisions, angry and stressed out football managers,

the tears, the injuries, the glamorous and sexy footballers wives, and the sight of a perfectly struck free kick.

The ball spinning and curling in the air in slow motion as it glides over the wall

and over the heads of defenders curving through space and beyond the tips of the

goalkeeper's fingers as it sails majestically right into the top corner of the goal, sending the net billowing back and cascading behind it.

The goalkeeper still falling, the player staring.

There's that brief moment of silence before the entire stadium just explodes like a million tons of dynamite, but in a good way.

Football, our old friend.

Or maybe you can't stand it. Maybe for you it's just 90 minutes of

crushing boredom. Watching powerless while a bunch of overpaid prima donnas

kick an airfield sack around a green rectangle,

while nothing happens, nothing changes. Men get either drunk, depressed or violent, or even worse, drunk depressed and violent. The inarticulate players cheat

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