1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 You're listening to the Footglish Podcast. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Love football, learn English. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Why did Czechia lose to Turkey? 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 What part did the referee play? 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Did the Czech players fight hard enough? 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And how do we use the third conditional in English? 7 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Hello everyone, welcome back to the Footglish Podcast. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 An English learning podcast which can help you develop your English listening skills. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 My name is Denik Lukas and welcome. 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,000 And unfortunately today we are going to have to talk about the result of the Czech team. 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And that's because my team, Czechia and the Czech Republic, have just been beaten by Turkey. 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:10,000 When I say have just been beaten, well it was yesterday, but it feels like it was today because the emotion is really strong. 13 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I have to say I'm really disappointed. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I'm absolutely gutted about the result, about what happened, how it all panned out. 15 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Czechia with one point, last place, fourth place in the group. 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Unfortunately nowhere near qualifying. 17 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,000 All we had to do is beat Turkey and well I'm going to tell you about this game a bit. 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 But you should know that it's quite hard for me to even talk about this. 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Because watching this game was like watching a horror film. 20 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Basically the main event of the game, the main sort of talking point will have to be two yellow cards for the player Barak. 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Who unfortunately was sent off very early in the game. 22 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 In the 20th, it was around the 20th minute. 23 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:09,000 And the Czech Republic had to play with 10 men for about 80 minutes, 80 remaining minutes of the game. 24 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And that was a real sucker punch. 25 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 I think even for the fans in the stands, obviously in Germany you've got a lot of Turkish people. 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 So you can imagine they were dominant force in the stadium in the stands. 27 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 There were more Turkish fans than the Czech fans. 28 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And after this incident, I have to say that basically those two yellow cards are justified. 29 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 The referee sent the player off. 30 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,000 I think it was insensitive because it pretty much affected the whole game. 31 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,000 The game was over or the game that could have been was over and it was a completely different sport. 32 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Those of you who have played football then you know that playing with 10 men for so long, it just changes the dynamic of the game. 33 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:05,000 And basically we were trying to find a way to somehow beat Turkey with one man down. 34 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And that's always hard. 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 The player who did this Barak, he seemed to be over motivated when he was singing the national anthem. 36 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 He seemed to be very vigorous, right? 37 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Full of energy, which I liked. 38 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 But then unfortunately he made some really bad decisions in the game. 39 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Got sent off and yeah, we have to say that he is kind of to blame for this loss. 40 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Yeah, there are other reasons, of course, we lost it. 41 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 But this was the main one, I have to say. 42 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Now, it's interesting that despite this, we managed to have total 12 attempts, six on goal. 43 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Whereas the Turks had 17 attempts in total and five on goal. 44 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:55,000 So overall, we battled, we fought hard despite this unfortunate event. 45 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Now we have to mention the referee who was an absolute disgrace. 46 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 We have to say he cost us the game. 47 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 The decisions he made impacted the game. 48 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 I said the first one, the Barak sending off was insensitive, but he can justify it. 49 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I don't think he can justify what happened after that. 50 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The Turkish player was supposed to be sent off as well after a series of fouls on the Czech players. 51 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 There was one decision which could have even been a straight red card. 52 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,000 It went to VAR, but this player was let off in the end. 53 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,000 And well, it was a power play for Turkey. 54 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 They had one more man and that's what it comes down to. 55 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 The referee showed 18 yellow cards and two red cards. 56 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 There was one more red card for a Czech player after the game finished. 57 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 But 18 yellow cards is a new Euro record. 58 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Basically, it was not a nice display from the referee and he affected the game really badly. 59 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 His name is Istvan Kovács. 60 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 It sounds like a Hungarian name, that's right. 61 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:09,000 The referee is Romanian, but he has got a father from Hungary. 62 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 And he has got a Hungarian passport apparently. 63 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And I don't know in what universe you would let a referee from Hungary be in charge of a game 64 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:29,000 where the Hungarians who were in the other group in the third place waiting for the other matches to finish, 65 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:35,000 when they needed actually the Turkish team to draw or win. 66 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,000 They needed us not to win, the Hungarians, right? 67 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:47,000 I don't know in what universe you would let a referee who has got an interest in this, right? 68 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Obviously, if you were born in Hungary, you want your team to progress, right? 69 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 So I don't understand how they even let him be in charge of this. 70 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 This was a conflict of interest. 71 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Unless I'm missing something, I mean you may say that this is a conspiracy theory, 72 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 and you might well be right. 73 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,000 I'm not saying I know the answer here. 74 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 But to say the least, this is suspicious. 75 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And the way this match was refereed, it's not just the red card, 76 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 it's not just the fact that the Turkish didn't get a red card, it's also a penalty. 77 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 There should have been a penalty for the Czech team. 78 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:36,000 But instead, the referee decided to blow the whistle and it was an offensive foul from our player, Kukta. 79 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I don't want this podcast to be about a referee. 80 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 I don't want to rant about the referee. 81 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,000 I don't think it's right, because then you will look for excuses, some external factors. 82 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Obviously, Barak made a massive mistake, and it's inexcusable and unacceptable. 83 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But unfortunately, the referee was a big, big player in this game as well. 84 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Because if he had sent off the Turkish player too, if he had given us the penalty, 85 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 things might have gone differently. 86 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Also, some people talk about bad luck, because we had bad luck with the referee, 87 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 then our goalkeeper got injured, and things like that. 88 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Well, again, we can talk about bad luck. 89 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 The things went from bad to worse in this game. 90 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 But the problem is, if we look for all these excuses, 91 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:40,000 then we will basically be distracting ourselves from real issues that there are with the Czech team. 92 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 And there are issues. 93 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I actually thought that the nomination was well made. 94 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,000 I liked the way Ivan Hasek, the Czech coach, the main coach, was talking in the media. 95 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I liked the way it was all presented. 96 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 There was an improvement from the previous management. 97 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:05,000 But I think the issues are more general. More general with Czech football. 98 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 We don't have enough creative players, I believe. 99 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 We don't have Rosickis, Poborskis and Nedvěts. Not anymore. 100 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 And that's why our individual technical ability is just so much lower. 101 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 And I think it costs us the games. 102 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Because in this game, we played really well, despite this hardship that we had to deal with. 103 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Despite the way the game was going for us, we battled really well. 104 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,000 And I think that is quite praiseworthy. I think we need to commend that. 105 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 We need to praise that. 106 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And I was actually proud of the team in the end. 107 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 But we only finished with one point. We didn't manage to beat anyone. 108 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,000 We only drew with Georgia, who finished above us because they beat Portugal. 109 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,000 You could say that Portugal had nothing to play for because by the time they played Georgia, they had already won the game. 110 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 You could say that. It's probably true. 111 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 But then again, we did not deal with Turkey. And Turkey beat Georgia. 112 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 So we deserved to go out, unfortunately. 113 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:15,000 We deserved to go out, no matter how you try to wrap it with bad luck and terrible referee, which is true as well. 114 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 We have to look the truth in the eye. And this is what happened, right? 115 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 We were hard done by. We were treated unfairly. 116 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And even the international media are on our side and they praise us for fighting hard. 117 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Players like Provod, Soucek, Krejci. They really gave their everything on the pitch. 118 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:41,000 But unfortunately, it's not enough. So there are positives to take from this. 119 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,000 But I'm afraid the negatives far outweigh the positives. 120 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Soucek played as the true captain. He scored our only goal. 121 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,000 And you could say that this was a heroic performance from him. Same from Provod. 122 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 But yeah, it's not enough. 123 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 We had the youngest team in the Euro, so that might be a good thing as well, right? 124 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 That could be a promise of a bright future. 125 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 We had good team spirit, or at least that's the way it looked. 126 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Decent manager, the assistant managers seemed to know what they were doing. 127 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:22,000 My respect actually goes to Ivan Hasek and the players who stayed on the pitch. 128 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Staniak, excellent performance from the goalkeeper in the tournament as well. 129 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 We fought valiantly. We had courage and determination. 130 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 We did not give up. We had a chance. The Turks, they were afraid. 131 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 They were afraid because for a long time it was a draw. 132 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 And all that had to happen was us to score one goal. 133 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And they would have been eliminated from the tournament. 134 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:53,000 So from that perspective, we did what we could. We did not give up. We kept going. 135 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 But in the end, it was meant to be. It happened, right? 136 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,000 We lost the game and it's probably what was supposed to happen. 137 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:07,000 I think what we should do now is to learn from our mistakes. 138 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:14,000 We shouldn't cry. We shouldn't blame just the referee for what happened. 139 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,000 And we should not put ourselves in the position of a victim. 140 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Because the more we do this, and we are quite good at this, the Czechs, 141 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:29,000 because we have an experience with the referee Pierre Luigi Colina, 142 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:36,000 who basically gave a penalty, I think it was in year 2000. 143 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:41,000 And we lost the game against the Netherlands back then. 144 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Then he was the enemy of the country. 145 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:51,000 But I think we can't think in this kind of way. We have to have a different mindset. 146 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,000 You know, you can be stronger after failing, because you learn from your mistakes. 147 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 And if you bounce back, it will make you stronger. 148 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,000 What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. 149 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 The only question is, can we do that? Can we do that? 150 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Can we stop blaming and just start working harder? 151 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I hope we can. I have to say congratulations to Turkey. 152 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 They knocked us out the third time in a row. 153 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 And it was always the last game of the group stage. 154 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 The Turkish always beat us in the last three games. 155 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 We played them. So from that perspective, they are our bogey team. 156 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,000 We don't want to play them, because they are so good. 157 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 They just showed more in this group than us. 158 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 They beat Georgia at least, and we didn't. 159 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,000 So, yeah, it is what it is. I'm not very happy about this. 160 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And it's harder to record episodes like this. 161 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 But it had to be done. It had to be done. I had to give you my opinion. 162 00:12:52,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I can see all the factors, right? The referee, the barak mistake, getting himself sent off. 163 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I can see the bigger picture as well with the Czech players lacking creativity. 164 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Yeah, and this is the result. Unfortunately, we are out of the tournament. 165 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 But this is not the end of the Footglitch Podcast. 166 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:22,000 We will keep going. And as always, let me teach you some stuff in the next segment. 167 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Welcome back in this part of the show. 168 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 As always, I'm going to teach you something. 169 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 And this time I would like to take a look at the third conditional. 170 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:42,000 It's a scary, scary structure in English because it has so many parts. 171 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:49,000 And it's notoriously difficult for English learners to learn and to use correctly. 172 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,000 But maybe it will be easier when I give you an example that I used in this episode. 173 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I said at one point, if he had sent off the Turkish player too, 174 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:06,000 if he had given us the penalty, the things might have gone differently. 175 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 So I was of course talking about the referee, right? 176 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I talked about the referee too much in this episode. 177 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Hopefully in the future episodes I won't have to do that. 178 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,000 And I am kind of talking about an alternative past. 179 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:32,000 So the way the past happened is that the referee didn't send any Turkish players off 180 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 and he didn't give a penalty for the Czech team. 181 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:42,000 So basically this is the reality. This is what happened. This is the fact. 182 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:48,000 But now we are thinking, okay, what would have been if things had gone differently? 183 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 So this is how this third conditional is used. 184 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Now notice the structure. If he, the referee, had sent off, 185 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:07,000 so sent is the third form of the verb send, send, sent, sent, right? 186 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:13,000 So if he had sent off, send off, to send someone off means to give someone a red card. 187 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:19,000 If he had sent off the Turkish player, yeah? 188 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:27,000 And then there was one more. If he had given, so you have had plus the third form of the verb, 189 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 give, gave, given, right? If he had given us the penalty. 190 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 So this is the condition. So a conditional sentence has two parts. 191 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:41,000 The condition, which is the structure with if or the clause with if, 192 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:48,000 and then the main clause. And then in the main clause I said the things might have gone differently. 193 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:55,000 So often we use would there, right? I could have said things would have gone differently. 194 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,000 But instead I went for things might have gone differently. 195 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,000 So look at the structure again here. Might or would, have, 196 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:10,000 and again the third form of the verb. The things might have gone differently. 197 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Go, went, gone, right? So again, if he had sent off the Turkish player too, 198 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,000 if he had given us the penalty, the things might have gone differently. 199 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,000 This is the third conditional. And it basically talks about the past that did not happen, 200 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,000 like an alternative past, unreal past that you cannot change. 201 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Usually it's used to sort of have regrets or criticize someone, right? 202 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Or just, yeah, it's used in this kind of way. Maybe I could have regrets about recording this episode 203 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:51,000 because perhaps I wasn't very calm when I was recording it. Perhaps I was ranting too much. 204 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Yeah. So maybe I could now say if I had been calmer, I would have recorded a better episode. 205 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 So I'm sort of like regretting the way I recorded this episode. 206 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:15,000 If the Czech Republic hadn't lost against Turkey, I would have recorded a more fun episode. 207 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Something like that. Okay, listeners, that's it. I'm done with this. 208 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I hope I don't have to talk about the Czech team for a few days now. I need a little break. 209 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,000 I will still keep doing episodes, but we will be focusing on different teams, of course. 210 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,000 So I want to thank you very much for listening to the Footgrish podcast. 211 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:43,000 And yeah, please subscribe to this podcast if you like it. 212 00:17:43,000 --> 00:18:02,000 And thank you for listening again. Take care, everyone. Bye bye.