1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Love football, learn English. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Who is the new Premier League leader as of now? 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Is Mohamed Salah thriving under the new Liverpool manager Arnaz Slot? 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Who scored four goals and became an unquestionable hero of the week? 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And how are the prepositions like for, of, from and at usually pronounced in conversation? 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the Footglitch Podcast. 8 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 What's Footglitch Podcast? 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 I hear you asking. 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Well, the Footglitch Podcast is a podcast about football and it is for English learners. 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,000 So anyone that is learning English and is interested in football, this is a podcast for you. 12 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,000 And today I am joined by Wojta, who has his own FPL channel. 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Welcome to the podcast, Wojta. 14 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Hello. Thank you for inviting me. 15 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Hopefully I'll try my best with my English, but hopefully it's not going to be so bad. 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Honestly, all it took was 10 seconds and I know that you are an excellent guest for this podcast. 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:37,000 And also for another reason, not just because you have a very, very decent English, 18 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,000 but you actually have your own YouTube channel about the Fantasy Premier League. 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Would you mind telling us something about it? 20 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Yes, sure. It's in Czech, but I'm just playing Fantasy Premier League and the Czech League, Fantasy. 21 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,000 And I have the channel like two years, I think, or something over two years. 22 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And yeah, it's been interesting. 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And I just try to talk about my team, about my transfers, captains and so on. 24 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And people watch me, at least some people. 25 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Well, I do too. That's how I discovered you. 26 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Because you know what? I don't think there are that many people from the Czech Republic who have a channel like that in Czech. 27 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000 So I think you made the right decision to start a channel like that because it's really popular in the UK. 28 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Yeah, in the UK there are a lot of big accounts and big YouTube accounts. 29 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:47,000 So this is something new in Czech because I know that it's a popular game, 30 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:58,000 but in the Czech Republic it's not so much popular as in the UK or like in other countries in Europe, for example, like Norway and something like that. 31 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Exactly. And that's why you come in because you are here to popularize this fantastic game. 32 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Although I don't think you are their employee. You are not employed by them, right? 33 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 No, no, no, definitely not. 34 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 You just do it for fun. 35 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Exactly. In my spare time. 36 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Perfect. OK, and you're here today to talk about the Premier League. 37 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 And we can see if you're watching this, ladies and gentlemen, on YouTube, 38 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:33,000 because you can either listen to this podcast on any podcasting device, whatever it is, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, you name it. 39 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Or it can also be found on my YouTube channel, the TeachersDenek YouTube channel. 40 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:45,000 So if you are there, then you will probably see Vojta, what he looks like and what he has on him. 41 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:53,000 He's wearing an LCF shirt. Liverpool FC is your team then. 42 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Yes, that's my team. It's kind of an older kit. I think it's from the 2014-15 season. 43 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 But yeah, it still kind of looks nice. 44 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:17,000 LFC, Liverpool FC. Well, I think I invited you exactly at the right time because isn't it the first game week that you are actually top of the league, 45 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 that you managed to get past Manchester City and Arsenal and you're top of the league? 46 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Yes, kind of surprising to me. But we had some not that difficult games at the start. 47 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:41,000 So that definitely helps when you have a new manager. And the start is good. 48 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I mean, the last game wasn't that good, but we still won and three points. So that's all that matters. 49 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Exactly. Well, this is Premier League and there are no difficult, as we can see, but we can use a cliché. 50 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 There are no easy opponents in the Premier League anyway. So you might have had an easier run in at the beginning of the season. 51 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:09,000 But you know what? Sometimes it's all about momentum. And if you had started the season with a few bad results, 52 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:18,000 it might have had some impact on the rest of the season. So I wouldn't worry about the fact that you played some easier opponents. 53 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,000 So this weekend it was Wolf Hedelton, right? Was it a home game? 54 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Away. It was an away game. I have to admit I did not see this game, even though I invited you to talk about it. 55 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:37,000 But perhaps that's why I have you here. You can tell me more about it. So I can see it's a 2-1 win. How did you see the game then? 56 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Well, the first half was actually quite boring. There was like nothing going on. Maybe Vos were even like a better side. 57 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:59,000 But then we had like a big chance. We missed Soboslay. And then at the end of the first half, we scored from a corner kick. 58 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:10,000 So that was really helpful. But until then, I think there wasn't like really big chances, but they had more ball, I think. 59 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:26,000 And it was quite boring. The second half was a little bit better, but still the performance from Liverpool was not that good. 60 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:37,000 We've seen this season much, much better. But we still, we considered like, I think the second goal we considered this season, 61 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:50,000 but it was like a stupid mistake from Konate plus Alisson. Like a free goal for them. Until then, they didn't have like a big chance. 62 00:06:50,000 --> 00:07:03,000 So that was 1-1. But then we got the goal from the penalty spot. So Mohammed Salah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, as always. 63 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,000 He is still your penalty taker. How long has he been the main penalty taker? Maybe for five years, six years? I don't know. 64 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Yeah, something like that. I think like when he came in, maybe the first season, I don't remember, maybe there was someone else, but the season after, I think he started. 65 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:26,000 And occasionally he does miss an old penalty, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes. 66 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:37,000 But I think he's one of them that he changes his, like sometimes he goes in the middle. He goes actually in the middle a lot. 67 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:45,000 But the goalkeepers never stays, never stay on the line in the middle. So that's good for them. That's weird. 68 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:53,000 They should learn it by now. If he keeps it there most of the time. Maybe they need one of those cheat sheets, you know, how we see these days, 69 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:01,000 occasionally during maybe European Cups or important games, we see a goalkeeper with a cheat sheet of the potential penalty takers. 70 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Perhaps they should start doing that. They should stick it on their bottle and have it ready in front of their goal. 71 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Yeah, I know he changes. He still changes a lot. And I remember some interview with Ben Foster. 72 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:23,000 He's like the retired goalkeeper and in the match against Watford, there weren't any penalties. 73 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 But after the game, Salah went to the goalkeeper of Watford and he was asking, if I had a penalty, where would you dive? 74 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:43,000 So he just wants to know, you know, for cases like that. These are all mind games and it's part of it's part of football, of course. 75 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Well, I have to say these kind of games against teams that are bottom of the league, actually, 76 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:56,000 which we have to say, Wolf, Harempton, Wanderers are bottom of the league. I think they are on one point only. 77 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Yeah, they are. But they had like the hardest fixtures at the start I've ever seen. 78 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:09,000 And it continues like until game nine or something like that. But they're actually a good site. 79 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:20,000 They're unpredictable because they can beat anyone, but still then they lose to Chelsea like 6-2 or whatever. 80 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 But they're a good site, actually, I think. 81 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Yeah, I just wanted to make a point that these games are often a trap because everyone expects you to just put, I don't know, 82 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,000 five, six goals past them, especially in this context of the fantasy Premier League. 83 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:43,000 And it doesn't always work out that way. So I think, for example, as a Liverpool fan, you must be happy for three points, right? 84 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Yeah, definitely. And I was like quite worried that one goal we can concede and then it will be hard to score 85 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:59,000 because no one was actually like on fire from the attacking players. 86 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:10,000 And Jota was actually a little bit better than in previous matches, but it was like no one was really, really good in that game. 87 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,000 OK, and your new manager Arne Slot, a tough position to be in, in my opinion, 88 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:24,000 to replace someone who has been so, so important for you and who has changed the club upside down, Jürgen Klopp. 89 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:32,000 And as we know, he decided to retire last season and it's a tough act to follow, as we say in English. 90 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:45,000 And I heard a lot of people, a lot of experts, a lot of pundits actually, you know, predicting a tough season for him and for Liverpool and for Liverpool fans. 91 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:52,000 And they were almost saying something like brace yourselves for a bad season. Another Erich Ten Haag is coming. 92 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 But you know what? He's doing a good job, isn't he? 93 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Yeah, yeah, especially when we actually didn't buy anyone. 94 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:08,000 So it was like weird that he didn't bring someone, for example, from Feyenoord or something like that. 95 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 So I was actually a little bit afraid as well. 96 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:21,000 But after like one, two, three games and then some interviews with him, I'm already in love with him. 97 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:28,000 What do you mean? You mean in terms of football and tactics and not anything else? OK, just want to make sure. 98 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Yeah, yeah. It's so good at interviews and how he sees the game and how he can explain what he can see from the opponents, for example. 99 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:47,000 After the match with Manchester United, he just had an interview, I think it was with Sky Sports or something like that. 100 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000 And in like three minutes, he analyzed the whole game and how they won. 101 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,000 And it was like when I see Ten Haag. 102 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I wanted to say that there's almost like a stereotype that Dutch managers are cold or uncharismatic. 103 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And I think Erich Ten Haag is to blame for that. 104 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,000 But also there was Luis van Gaal and these managers, you know, they didn't exactly have the best reputation in the Premier League. 105 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And part of the problem was like sort of their personality in TV, which should not be or on TV, which should not be the most important thing, of course. 106 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Right. It should be about how good you are as a manager. 107 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:36,000 But these days, because of marketing, social media and and it's just the world is a bit different nowadays. 108 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:44,000 And you kind of need to be able to handle press conferences and and post-match interviews and all that. 109 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:53,000 And so it's nice to see a manager from the Netherlands who's breaking, breaking the stereotype, you know, breaking the mold. 110 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:04,000 But you can still see that he's Dutch because, for example, I don't know, after the first match, he just substituted Kwanzaa, 111 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 he sent him back after after the first half. 112 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 And he was just at the press conference. 113 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 He was just he didn't win enough jewels. 114 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 I subbed him off. 115 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 It's kind of similar to the German attitude, the German mindset. 116 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 They did just honest, very honest. 117 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:29,000 And I think the main gap, the main issue is that the English language, right, as an English teacher, I know this very well. 118 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,000 It's a it's a kind of language where being indirect is a virtue. 119 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 It's one of the values, the core values of the British culture. 120 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:51,000 And it's like for for the Brits, sometimes the way Germans and the Dutch speak, it's just too direct and almost almost as if rude or something cold. 121 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,000 So that's where this discrepancy comes from, basically. 122 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Yeah. 123 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 So he's like that. But for now, it works. 124 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 And hopefully that's not going to change. 125 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Isn't it isn't it always about results ultimately? 126 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Yeah, yeah, it is. 127 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 So now the results are good. 128 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 So everyone's happy. 129 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Even you. 130 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 131 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 For now, including you. 132 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I also wanted to ask you about Mohammed Salah because correct me if I'm wrong, 133 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:34,000 but it seemed that the last few years, first of all, he had been he had not let's let's say it in the English way. 134 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 He had not been getting any better. 135 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:45,000 And also it seemed like there were a few, let's say, conflicts with the manager, with the organ club. 136 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:53,000 So would you say that for him, it's to have a new manager like that is actually a breath of fresh air. 137 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Yeah, it might be. 138 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:04,000 But also the with Klopp, why he was like mad at him was because he substituted him. 139 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And he just he's just used to playing 90 minutes of all games. 140 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 And now slot actually is doing the same. 141 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 He's just playing 90 minutes. 142 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 So right. So he knows. 143 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:27,000 It might happen that if he subs in some match that it might happen again because he just wants to play even when he doesn't play very well. 144 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Yeah, exactly. 145 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000 And then he's not very basically he's not able to be very objective. 146 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Right. He is too emotional about these things. 147 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 And sometimes you have to make a tough decision, a tough call as a manager. 148 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 But also you don't want to upset this player. 149 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Right. 150 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:53,000 And could it could it be that this is what Arnaz slot is getting better than Eric Stenhaag, his predecessor or doesn't doesn't sound right. 151 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 The original touch manager, there was a Ralph Ragnick before him. 152 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Right. Ralph Ragnick and before that Oleg Gunnar Solskjær. 153 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 So not really good years for United. 154 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Actually, we could say that after Ferguson's era, it all went downhill. 155 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Right. 156 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Every single manager. 157 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:22,000 So I think it's it's a bit of malaise there in in that at that club and with the fans, you know, they always have high expectations and so many fans around the world. 158 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 And there was a moment, right. 159 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:35,000 It was it. I don't know if it was last year, perhaps two years ago, where basically Cristiano Ronaldo came back to the club and it was an important moment. 160 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:48,000 And the first season he was all right. But knowing Cristiano Ronaldo, it's often about himself, just about himself is kind of a selfish player with a lot of a lot of goals and a lot of respect around the world. 161 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 But not always a team player. 162 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Right. 163 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:02,000 And then the response that Eric Stenhaag gave gave him or the treatment he gave him was that he slowly but surely he sidelined him. 164 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:13,000 He got him out of the team. Right. So perhaps we could see some sort of parallel because no offense, but Salah is also getting a bit getting on a bit. 165 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 So how do you see this comparison? Is it fair or? 166 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Yeah, but Salah is still getting goals and I still I don't know. 167 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Yeah, I still can't imagine like without playing without Salah. 168 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Yes, actually was the only transfer in and I don't know if he's ready. 169 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,000 But Salah, we saw it in this match. 170 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,000 He doesn't play well and then he decides the game and he just scores. 171 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:50,000 I know it was a penalty, but even in other games, he just scores goals. 172 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:59,000 And that's what's the best about him, even when he's like not that good in the in the game. 173 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 But yeah, it's all about goals and he scores them. 174 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Exactly. So I think we've dealt with this game Wolves Liverpool. 175 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Let me just quickly go through all the results. 176 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:19,000 So this was the first game of the weekend Wolves won Liverpool 2, then Nottingham Forest 0, Fulham 1, Everton 2, Crystal Palace 1, Chelsea 4, 177 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Brighton 2, Brentford 1, West Ham 1, Arsenal 1, my team beat Leicester City 4-2 and then Newcastle Man City 1-0. 178 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Now, sorry, this was the first game of the weekend. 179 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Wolves Liverpool was the last game of Saturday. 180 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:43,000 I got it wrong. And then on Sunday, we had two games. 181 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Ipswich 2, Aston Villa 2 and finally Manchester United 0, Spurs 3. 182 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 And I think today we've got one more game, which will start in about four minutes. 183 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 And that's Bournemouth against Southampton. 184 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I think it's one hour and four minutes. 185 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 OK. Probably looking at the wrong time as well. 186 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 There's time difference, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, that's a thing. 187 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Right. So any of these did any of these results actually surprise you? 188 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Would you say any of them stands out? 189 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 I think there were some interesting results. 190 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,000 For example, Newcastle City, of course, two points lost by City. 191 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And we can see now already first game without Reddry who just got injured for the whole season and they just lost. 192 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:44,000 There was a narrative last season as well, wasn't it? When he got injured for a few games, suddenly they win. 193 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Win rate went down and now it's happening again. 194 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,000 It looks like. Yeah, but at the start of the season, he wasn't ready and they still won. 195 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,000 So I think they will still keep winning, but it will definitely be harder. 196 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,000 And I don't think they're going to win the league. 197 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Yeah, I think now is the time to place a bet on Liverpool or Arsenal winning the league. 198 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 I agree with you. It's a chance for us. 199 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Yeah, exactly. Even I believe a little bit as in a little bit more. 200 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 But but we're still in the game. 201 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 We're first. It's just one game after one game. 202 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,000 And if you keep winning, we can we can be there. 203 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Absolutely. I think it's it's too early to predict and it comes down to injuries at the end of the day. 204 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:43,000 We should also remind our listeners that it's not just this player that is injured. 205 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:48,000 It's not just Rodri. There are other injuries at Manchester City at the moment. 206 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Oscar Bob, I think, broke his leg or something. And then we have Eric, not Eric Denhaag. 207 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Kevin De Bruyne is out, right. And those are really important players. The same the same issue at Arsenal. 208 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:07,000 You have Odegaard, you know, the playmaker. So not easy, not easy times. 209 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:19,000 And I think if a few important players are out, then it can really sort of shuffle the deck, you know, not shuffle the deck, but it can make a make a huge difference for the league. 210 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Yeah. And I was quite, quite fortunate last season because like no one got injured for like more than two games from the from important players like Saliba, Gabriel, Odegaard, Reis and so on. 211 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:45,000 So this is new for them. Starting with Odegaard, we will see if something happens to like one of the centre backs that would be devastated as well. 212 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Exactly. That's a good word to use. Saliba, Gabriel are on fire right now. Yeah. 213 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:59,000 So for me, another surprising result is I would say Manchester United Tottenham 0-3. 214 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:15,000 OK, I may have expected Tottenham to get something out of this game, but to lose to lose for United in such a such a way, I think it's a real it's a real blow. And also they lost Bruno Fernandez. 215 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:25,000 He got a red card in that game. Did you see what happened? Yes, I did see it. And I don't think that was a red card. It was. He slipped, didn't he? 216 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Yeah, it was pretty harsh. I know that it doesn't matter if he slips or not, but he still didn't hit him like directly. 217 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:42,000 It was. Yeah, I don't think that's a red card. But still, until the red card Tottenham like could have already been winning like 3-0. 218 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:51,000 That's right. That's right. They deserve they deserve to win. Even if we don't take this red card into account. That's true. 219 00:22:51,000 --> 00:23:00,000 It doesn't certainly doesn't help the team doesn't help the mood. And how long have we have we been hearing this? 220 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Ten heart out for a long, long time. Nothing is happening, though. 221 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:14,000 No, no, nothing is happening. And it's always just the process. And I won trophies and so on, so on. 222 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Yeah, exactly. If I was a United fan, I would be like already over a year just calling him to just to leave. 223 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:36,000 But it would be protesting protesting at the Wenceslaw Square or something like that, which is a famous Czech Square in Prague. 224 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:47,000 If you don't know listeners. OK, I've got this segment on this show called Hero of the Week, and it's followed by the villain of the week. 225 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:54,000 And I don't know how about you, but I think it's pretty clear who the hero of the week this weekend is. 226 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:03,000 There's a player who scored four goals. Would you? Yeah, would you have him as your hero of the week or? 227 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Yeah, for me, it might actually be the villain because I don't have him in the fantasy team. 228 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:24,000 So that's why. But yeah, of course, he's amazing. And Biden, yeah, they didn't defend very well, but still something he does, you can't even defend. 229 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Four goals in the first half hadn't happened before. It's the first time ever. And I remember him scoring four goals before. 230 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:44,000 So, like, you know what? I have to admit, I played my wild card before this game in the in the FPL, and it is by far my worst week is the irony of it all. 231 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:55,000 It's not just because of Palmer. Everyone else did so badly. Everyone else that I got into my new team did so poorly. 232 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Yeah, me too. I also used my wild card and I got like 33 points for now. I still have two players playing today. 233 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Not even worse than me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm hoping like Seminio and Kavir Nyer can do something in an hour. 234 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Seminio, yeah. It seems like we have exactly the same fantasy team. Let me see. 235 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:31,000 So this is the Footgris podcast league for those of you that are watching us. And currently I'm on 35 points. I thought I had more. 236 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Look at this, yeah. So it's like a template lineup. And the only two only three players that did something for me were Rogers, Saka and Bełmo. 237 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:51,000 And the only reason Saka did something is because I captained him. It was such a disaster this round for me. 238 00:25:51,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Yeah, for sure. And for template players, it was like a big disaster because like 30 points and nothing else. 239 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Because Palmer wasn't like the template pick because they had like two good games now, but then they have like hard games. 240 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:22,000 And Saka was just the obvious call to have Saka because they have like Leicester home, Southampton home. 241 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Exactly. But yeah, Saka had like three big chances created or four, something like that, but no points. 242 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:38,000 He was on three bonus points and they were about to give him that assist for that Trossard's winner goal. 243 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:46,000 And then they took it off him and that was a disaster. As you can see, I also bought Nicholas Jackson. 244 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Maybe that was an unexpected pick. That was my differential, as they call it. Unfortunately, Solonke is on bench. 245 00:26:52,000 --> 00:27:00,000 So if Seminio plays, I don't get points from him. Yeah, I put Rogers on the bench. So it's the same. 246 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Yeah, maybe even worse because Rogers has one more point. Yeah. So if any of you are interested in joining the Footglitch Podcast Mini League, 247 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:21,000 as you can see, we have 18 teams here. Feel free to join, including you, Vojta. You're also welcome to join. 248 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Yeah, I'm going to join. Have you got your own league as well for your YouTube channel? 249 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Not really. I had it before, but then we decided like a lot of, I don't know what to say, influences in the FPL world. 250 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:50,000 But for example, Kulture Podcast, then FPL, CZ Twitter account, and some of us just got together and created one big league, one big Czech league. 251 00:27:50,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Yeah, there are like two leagues. The first one has like top 50 and you play against each other, every round, different opponent. 252 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:13,000 So it's the H2H style. Then there's like the second league and you can qualify for this top 50. 253 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:28,000 So the top 10 goes to the top 50 and there are like us, then there are like people from Canal Plus Sport and some like famous people who play. 254 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Yeah, I think the great thing about this mini league is that all the viewers and listeners can join us. 255 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:42,000 So of course, there will be a link in the description of this episode and there will also be a link to your channel, Vojta, 256 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:51,000 which is Vojta FPL. If there are any listeners from the Czech Republic, then you can join us and you can join Vojta's channel. 257 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:59,000 You can subscribe and get some insight about the Fantasy Premier League as well. 258 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Yeah, but currently I am like 3.5 million over the rank. So maybe it's not that good to listen to me, but I'm gonna get it back, I promise. 259 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:24,000 It's like one of those when there is a dietary advisor who is overweight and giving advice about healthy diet. 260 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 So you are a Fantasy Premier League expert who is not doing very well right now. 261 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Yeah, you can say that. 262 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,000 Well, that can all change because the season is long, right? And it's about consistency after all. 263 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Yeah, it's not actually good to look at the ranks in the first weeks because there are a lot of accounts who use their chips at the start and triple captains and so on. 264 00:29:50,000 --> 00:30:01,000 And yeah, but it's still a little bit better to be at least one million or something like that, not 3.5. 265 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Okay, well, we started talking about the heroes of the week. So I think Palmer, I'm giving it to Palmer, I think looks like so. 266 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000 So are you and what about our villains of the week? 267 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:23,000 Ooh, villains, that should be someone from Aston Villa, right? I don't know, there are a lot of villains, I would say. 268 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Every team has a villain. Every single referee is a villain as well. 269 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Yeah, exactly. 270 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:37,000 VAR, you can always choose the video assistant referee. It's an easy pick as well. 271 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Yeah, yeah, I would say it's I think you can say like there's not like a big villain of the round, but you can select a villain for every match or something like that. 272 00:30:50,000 --> 00:31:00,000 So I don't know, Gindogan for the city game, because I think that was like his worst performance I've ever seen. 273 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000 It's a great pick actually, yeah. 274 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Well, I know he was unlucky Bruno Fernandez, but his first red card. 275 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Yeah, I could also pick someone from West Ham because they have been atrocious this season, these are disastrous. 276 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000 So we, for example, Paqueta is just out of form. 277 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, they still got a point from Brunsford, so that's something I guess. Socek for the save them again. 278 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000 Yeah, Socek scored his second goal of the season. 279 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Yeah, you know what? He has been getting so much stick from the fans. 280 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:50,000 It's unbelievable because I've been subscribed to the West Ham United fan channels on YouTube quite a lot. 281 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:57,000 I've been watching it. I'm interested in what they have to say about our Czech captain of the Czech national team. 282 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,000 It's been going downhill with him and the support he has been getting. 283 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:09,000 But now every time he scores, suddenly they just love him again. 284 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:17,000 They are so fickle, the fans. All it takes is just one goal and suddenly they are like, oh, he has to play, he has to play. 285 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,000 And then he doesn't score for one or two games and he has to be out of the team. 286 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 So simple with the fans sometimes. 287 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Yeah, I think they're just groups. And when he plays bad, one of the groups is louder when he plays well, the second group is louder. 288 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Yeah, so yeah, I think you're right. 289 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000 OK, so shall we just quickly take a look at the table at the Premier League table? 290 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Because that's, I think, something you really want to see, isn't it? 291 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:54,000 I think. So enjoy the moment. Enjoy it while it lasts, Vojta. 292 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000 It may not be forever. 293 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000 Liverpool on 15 points, top of the league. 294 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 Five wins, one defeat. 295 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Ten plus goal difference. 296 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,000 I think you have the best goal difference of all of all teams as well. 297 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:26,000 And yeah, followed by Manchester City on 14 points, Arsenal also 14 points and Chelsea doing really well in top four in the fourth place with 13 points. 298 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:32,000 Then Aston Villa 13 points, Fulham, Newcastle in the other European spots. 299 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Tottenham Hotspur on 10. 300 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:45,000 And the bottom of the league, we've got three players in the relegation zone, Crystal Palace, Southampton and Wolves. 301 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Anything that surprises you looking at this table? 302 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Oh, well, United are 12. 303 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I would expect it to be like 15, but OK. 304 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000 Just joking. 305 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Of course, Wolves is surprising because they're just a good team and they will start winning, I think. 306 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Just hard fixtures. 307 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000 And they, for example, they should have won against Newcastle. 308 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000 They were a better team. 309 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,000 And then that just conceded two stupid goals. 310 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Like one of the goals from behind the box. 311 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 So, yeah, but it was surprising. 312 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,000 I don't know. I didn't expect Chelsea to click like this quickly. 313 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Yeah, yeah. They're doing a great job there under Marek's guard, right? 314 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:50,000 Yeah, yeah. And with all the transfers, everyone's laughing at them that they have like 500 players and so on. 315 00:34:50,000 --> 00:35:00,000 But they just clicked and there are a lot of young guys and they just enjoyed football and scoring goals, I guess. 316 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000 That's right. 317 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000 The bench is like so much quality, like João Felix, Pedro Neto, Kuncu. 318 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000 It's like, yeah. 319 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000 So Chelsea is surprising to me. 320 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000 OK, wonderful, Wojta. 321 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Yeah, so another week ahead of us. 322 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000 I mean, it's so much football these days. 323 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:28,000 European competitions as well, the Champions League, the Europa League, the Conference League, then another round of the Premier League. 324 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Honestly, it's madness. 325 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000 Yeah, never stop. Then there's international break. 326 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,000 So that's less fun. 327 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000 That's less fun. 328 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Exactly. 329 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Not on this podcast. 330 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 We don't stop on this podcast either. 331 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 I talk about that as well. 332 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 We talk about everything we can here. 333 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:53,000 But it's been fantastic to have you on the podcast, Wojta FPL, if I may call you that. 334 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000 Sure, sure. 335 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:05,000 And yeah, enjoy the moment where Liverpool are basking in the first place, on the first spot like that. 336 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Oh, yeah, I will. 337 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000 Hopefully, it's not going to change quickly. 338 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Hopefully, we keep going. 339 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:22,000 And you'll see like in two weeks, we play Chelsea, I think that's going to be first half game of the season. 340 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 So that's going to be interesting. 341 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000 And hopefully, we just keep winning. 342 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000 Yeah, I mean, yeah, we'll see. 343 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Good luck. 344 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Thank you for inviting me. 345 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Yeah, it was a pleasure, Wojta. 346 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Your English is great, by the way. 347 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Thanks for talking to me. 348 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:48,000 Yeah, well, I still like find the words, but I can like understand perfectly. 349 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000 But finding the words and I don't look every day. 350 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000 So it's, I mean, yeah, it's hard. 351 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000 I think that's understandable. 352 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000 We are not native speakers. 353 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,000 So, I mean, the most important thing is that we are able to communicate. 354 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 And that's what I'm helping my students to do as well. 355 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,000 I'm helping them with communication, you know, confidence and expanding their vocabulary. 356 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:19,000 And that's all it matters, in my opinion, a little bit of pronunciation, you know. 357 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000 Yeah. 358 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Okay, Wojta, thank you very much for featuring on this week's Footgris podcast about the Premier League. 359 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 And all the best to you and your channel. 360 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,000 You too. 361 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Thank you. 362 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Take care. Cheers. 363 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Welcome back to the Language Corner. 364 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to teach you something. 365 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And the first thing I have to say is that I'm actually in a good mood. 366 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 And that's because I've just come back from a run. 367 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,000 I went jogging after about a 20-day break. 368 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000 That's right. 369 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Because about 20 days ago, they extracted one of my teeth, you know, one of those wisdom teeth. 370 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:13,000 And I had been suffering ever since, until about yesterday. 371 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:22,000 And honestly, it was such a relief, such a massive relief that I was able to do some sports after so long. 372 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:30,000 You know, for someone who doesn't play football anymore and who used to run on a regular basis, this is almost like a drug. 373 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And if you don't do it for such a long time, it's making you go a bit crazy. 374 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:43,000 So honestly, I'm so happy that I can do sports again. 375 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 It's a great feeling. 376 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,000 But this is completely irrelevant to the Language Corner. 377 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000 So why did I start talking about that? 378 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 I don't know. 379 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,000 I thought I might as well share something from my private life after so long. 380 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000 I think I did that in the very first episode of the Footgrish podcast. 381 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 But usually we just talk football here. 382 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,000 And let's have a look at some pronunciation as well. 383 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 You know, prepositions, right? 384 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:24,000 Prepositions are words like off, at, on, in, a very integral part of the English language, very important part, right? 385 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:30,000 But did you know that most of the English learners actually mispronounce prepositions? 386 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 In what way? 387 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,000 Well, they usually pronounce them too much. 388 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000 They put too much emphasis on them. 389 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:47,000 And that's because when you learn these little words separately, right, when you word them as separate words, 390 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:57,000 they are pronounced in what we call a strong form, at, on, in, of. 391 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:06,000 However, when you use these, well, when we should say when the native speakers use these little words in sentences, 392 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:13,000 in a fast flowing conversation, they're actually pronounced much faster. 393 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Of, at, on, like that with the uh sound, which is in English called the schwa sound. 394 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000 I'm going to give you a few examples. 395 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000 We were talking about Mohammed Salah. 396 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,000 And for him, having a new manager was like a breath of fresh air. 397 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,000 This is what I said. I said for him, having a new manager was like a breath of fresh air. 398 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:52,000 So instead of saying breath of fresh air, you're going to sound more fluent and more natural if you say a breath, breath of, of, a breath of fresh air, like that. 399 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Right. Another one. 400 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,000 This is, this is what Vojta said, I think. 401 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:05,000 It's not good to look at the ranks in the first week. 402 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:12,000 Right. Vojta said that. So it's not good to look at the ranks in the first week. 403 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000 And again, you can say it's not look to look at the ranks, at the ranks. 404 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:23,000 It's not look to look at the ranks in the first week. Even in, you can say in, in, in the first week. 405 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000 Right. Another one. 406 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000 You are not their employee. You do it for fun. 407 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,000 I said that. You're not their employee. You do it for fun. 408 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,000 I said to Vojta, it was supposed to be a little joke. 409 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000 I said that Vojta doesn't work for FBL. That was the idea of the joke. 410 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000 Wasn't really a funny joke, was it? 411 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,000 You know, not all jokes can be funny. 412 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,000 For fun. Right. So rather than say for fun, you can say for fun. 413 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000 And here is the last example. 414 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:03,000 At the end of the first half, we scored from a corner kick. 415 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:12,000 At the end of the first half, not at the end, but at the end, at the end of the first half, of not of, 416 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:18,000 at the end of the first half, we scored from, not from, we scored from a corner kick. 417 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000 This is going to make you sound more fluent, more natural, 418 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:28,000 if you're able to use these little prepositions in their weak forms. 419 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,000 If you're able to pronounce them in their weak forms rather. 420 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:39,000 OK. Are there any cases when we pronounce these prepositions in their strong forms? 421 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,000 Yes, there are. But that's not what this podcast is about. 422 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000 I don't want to overwhelm you. I think this is more than enough for today. 423 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000 I would like to remind you that there is a way you can support the FoodGish Podcast. 424 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,000 If you want to do so, it's on my hero hero. 425 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,000 Right now, there are no benefits to doing that. I want to introduce that in the future. 426 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000 But for that, I first need to build a larger audience. 427 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:11,000 So if you think that these episodes are worth listening to and you really like the content, 428 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,000 why not support me on my hero hero? The link is in the description of this episode. 429 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:22,000 Anyway, I've been Zdenek. Thank you very much for listening and I'll speak to you again soon. 430 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:49,000 Cheers. Bye for now.