Hello, TIFO football podcast listeners. I am Josh Schneider-Wiler, host of TIFO's This Football Life podcast, and today I'll be hosting this bonus episode. Don't worry, Joe and Alex will be back with you on Monday. Today, we are joined by journalist Tom Williams, whose work you can regularly read in Bleacher Report and AFP. He is the author of the new

book, Do You Speak Football, a glossary of football words and phrases from around the world,

which you can buy in bookstores and on Amazon starting today. In this episode, we chat about the new

book and focus on how the language of football has evolved in countries around the world.

You'll hear Tom explain why Germans love to use the word Gurkin, who is football's William Shakespeare,

and which country has a similar football lexicon to England.

And most importantly, you'll learn lots of new

terms like Cholismo and Schwimkamp that you can impress your friends with. If you want to continue

the conversation on this subject, go on Twitter and use the hashtag, do you speak football?

So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with writer Tom Williams.

I'm here with Tom Williams, author of the book, Do You Speak Football? Tom, how are you doing today?

Very good, thanks. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. We're in a beautiful place, Finsbury Park. It's about to be

springtime. No complaints here.

What could be better?

Exactly.

So you just wrote this book and you were telling me it's an 18-month process.

It's out into the world.

Let's start with a super easy question.

What's something you learned writing the book?

Something I learned.

I learned so much.

I mean, this was the great joy of writing a book was that I was writing about all sorts of football cultures that I knew very little about.

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