WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 You're listening to the FootGlish podcast. Love 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:09.640 football, learn English. Manchester United 1, 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:13.720 Arsenal 1. Is this a United performance Rubin 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.719 Amorin can finally be proud of? Has Bruno Fernandes 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.500 stepped up? Now that he's a captain, is he less 00:00:21.500 --> 00:00:25.500 petulant than he used to be? And how do we use 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:49.689 prepositions at the end of sentences? Welcome 00:00:49.689 --> 00:00:53.109 back, audio listeners and video viewers. The 00:00:53.109 --> 00:00:56.570 Footgrish Podcast is back. What's the Footgrish 00:00:56.570 --> 00:00:59.289 Podcast? Well, it is a podcast which combines 00:00:59.289 --> 00:01:03.189 my and hopefully also your favorite passion, 00:01:03.450 --> 00:01:07.890 football, and learning English. And today with 00:01:07.890 --> 00:01:11.730 me in the studio is, of course, Leon Teres. And 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:15.129 that can only mean one thing. Or potentially 00:01:15.129 --> 00:01:17.310 two things. It could mean that we're going to 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:20.569 talk about Manchester United or Dutch football. 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:24.030 Yeah. I think it's going to be mainly Manchester 00:01:24.030 --> 00:01:27.909 United, right? Yeah. Yeah, life has been too 00:01:27.909 --> 00:01:32.670 busy to watch two different types of competitions. 00:01:33.890 --> 00:01:37.250 Okay, that's fair. That's fair enough, man. So 00:01:37.250 --> 00:01:40.769 where do we start? I guess we have to talk about 00:01:40.769 --> 00:01:44.910 the game that took place yesterday. Arsenal, 00:01:44.910 --> 00:01:47.870 Manchester United in the reverse order. It was 00:01:47.870 --> 00:01:50.209 actually at Old Trafford. So Manchester United, 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:53.590 Arsenal. What do you make of it? What did you 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:55.650 make of it? That was better from you, wasn't 00:01:55.650 --> 00:02:00.790 it? Yeah. Of course, it's not anything to be 00:02:00.790 --> 00:02:03.170 very proud of, I think. I don't think Manchester 00:02:03.170 --> 00:02:07.569 United is at the stage where they can, you know, 00:02:07.569 --> 00:02:11.030 be proud of anything. And Ruben Amorim is definitely... 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.759 aware of this. He's very noble in his remarks. 00:02:17.219 --> 00:02:19.479 He says things like, well, the season for us 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.939 is done. We can't change anything. We can't win 00:02:22.939 --> 00:02:25.319 anything. So the only thing that we can hope 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.939 for is that we win the Europa League, which I 00:02:27.939 --> 00:02:33.400 don't think it's going to happen. But they played 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.719 okay. I do think something that we do need to 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.159 mention is that free kick by Bruno Fernandes. 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:43.939 I think... It reminded me of the old Paul Pogba 00:02:43.939 --> 00:02:46.740 at Man United in his second spell. You remember? 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.099 He was also able to have these free kicks and 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:53.340 finish them off perfectly. Juan Mata as well. 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.000 Those three people, Mata, Fernandes, and Pogba, 00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.680 it all came together in that free kick. That 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.120 was excellent. The truth is, if you want anyone 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:09.300 to take that free kick from that position, from 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:11.439 both teams. I would probably choose Fernandes 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.219 to do it, to execute it because he's just that 00:03:14.219 --> 00:03:16.199 good. He's got a lot of experience of scoring 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.319 similar goals and a great technique. I may not 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.919 like this player, but I respect him for what 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.460 he can do on the pitch. I also think he is an 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:30.680 excellent captain. Oh, my lights keep falling. 00:03:30.939 --> 00:03:35.759 Okay. An excellent captain and he, you know, 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:40.360 he's able to maintain some sort of momentum in 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:44.740 the team. I think that's very good. We saw that 00:03:44.740 --> 00:03:47.099 as well. And a good example of this type of behavior 00:03:47.099 --> 00:03:52.139 was just around the halftime break where he kind 00:03:52.139 --> 00:03:56.400 of stopped CXA of approaching the referee. I 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.379 think that's a good thing. I think Bruno Fernandes 00:03:58.379 --> 00:04:01.080 really knows his position and his role in the 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.159 team. I think he has stepped up. And honestly, 00:04:04.419 --> 00:04:07.520 you will have to... You will have to ignore me 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.319 if you don't like what I'm going to say, but 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.180 a lot of fans of the opposition teams have been 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:17.560 sort of pointing out the fact that he tends to 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:22.100 dive a lot and sometimes he behaves in a petulant 00:04:22.100 --> 00:04:27.259 way and he's just like crying all the time. Whatever 00:04:27.259 --> 00:04:31.160 you think, you may disagree with me, but I'm 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.860 going to say this. In my opinion, he has been 00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:38.279 doing less of this. In the last few months. And 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.240 I don't know. I think it was under the previous 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.100 manager. Ten Hag. I think a little bit. I think 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:47.680 he started getting better at this. But now under 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.800 Amorim. I think he told him. Probably these managers 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.639 sort of had a chat with him. Had a word with 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.800 him. And they said what they don't like about 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.970 his game. And he seems to have. improved that 00:04:59.970 --> 00:05:02.589 aspect of his game would you agree with me because 00:05:02.589 --> 00:05:05.189 i don't remember him doing this in the recent 00:05:05.189 --> 00:05:07.870 games he he should have a lot of opportunities 00:05:07.870 --> 00:05:10.050 to do it too because your results have been awful 00:05:10.050 --> 00:05:16.670 yeah well i think um i think what you mentioned 00:05:16.670 --> 00:05:18.970 about him behaving like this and they're behaving 00:05:18.970 --> 00:05:21.810 better on the 10 half i think he also was a very 00:05:21.810 --> 00:05:24.259 good player on the social A very good player 00:05:24.259 --> 00:05:28.240 under Ranjik. So, Socia, Ranjik and Ten Hag. 00:05:28.339 --> 00:05:32.360 He was a good player. I do agree that I think 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.980 when the results started to go bad under Ten 00:05:35.980 --> 00:05:39.699 Hag, he really stepped up. You can see the disappointment 00:05:39.699 --> 00:05:41.680 in his face. You can see that he's trying to 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.319 coach on the field, put players in their positions. 00:05:47.969 --> 00:05:50.810 If there's anyone on the field that wants to 00:05:50.810 --> 00:05:54.189 win the game, even when they're 3 -0 down, it's 00:05:54.189 --> 00:05:58.910 Bruno Fernandes. He leads by example. For me, 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:03.180 this is also a sign of a great player. Everyone 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:05.819 has a weakness. Everyone has a weakness, right? 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.180 And his weakness, in my opinion, was his sort 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:10.779 of behavior on the pitch because I think it affects 00:06:10.779 --> 00:06:14.060 others as well. If you dive too much, if you 00:06:14.060 --> 00:06:16.459 roll on the ground too much, if you behave in 00:06:16.459 --> 00:06:22.040 a way that you cannot inspire your teammates 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.639 by that, in my opinion. A lot of your teammates 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:30.920 will be looking at it with disgust in their face, 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.620 I think, mostly. But if you really manage to 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:38.220 sort of eradicate that sort of weakness from 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:41.860 your game, I think that's a mark of a great personality, 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.079 of someone who shows that they can develop. And 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.540 he's been given the armband, right? So now he's 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:53.519 a captain. I think he's stepping up. Yeah, I 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.620 agree. And I think his attitude is very important. 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.600 especially if things turn around and they start 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:06.839 winning again. I think the team will be grateful 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:11.779 for this Bruno Fernandes now. Yeah, it's definitely, 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.420 for me, this is a better attitude than what Ronaldo 00:07:14.420 --> 00:07:16.519 has shown in the past. Whatever you may think 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.680 about Ronaldo, a great player, goal scorer, the 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.019 greatest player of all time, the GOAT, but his 00:07:23.019 --> 00:07:27.750 behavior hasn't always been top -notch. Neither 00:07:27.750 --> 00:07:30.110 has been Bruno. So those two players, like the 00:07:30.110 --> 00:07:32.269 greatest players of the Portuguese national team, 00:07:32.310 --> 00:07:34.529 you could say, in the last few years, in the 00:07:34.529 --> 00:07:38.449 last decade. And now Bruno, I think, is sort 00:07:38.449 --> 00:07:41.410 of winning me over with this, with the ability 00:07:41.410 --> 00:07:45.930 to reflect on his own behavior. He's, of course, 00:07:45.930 --> 00:07:48.470 not a player that... Ronaldo is a very good player. 00:07:48.610 --> 00:07:50.810 And Fernandes is a good player as well, but he's 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:54.579 not kind of the... the core player that everyone 00:07:54.579 --> 00:07:58.500 kind of relies on, right? When Ronaldo was at 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:00.579 United for his second spell, everybody knew, 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.319 well, he was going to pull us through and win. 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:06.279 So there was this arrogance that was sort of 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:11.519 expected, I think, sort of self -fulfilling, 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.360 self -fulfilling arrogance that Bruno Fernandes 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.389 doesn't have. That's true. That's true. It makes 00:08:17.389 --> 00:08:19.410 him more humble. And sometimes I think if you 00:08:19.410 --> 00:08:22.990 combine confidence with humility, I think this 00:08:22.990 --> 00:08:26.670 is the best mix for success. That's my humble 00:08:26.670 --> 00:08:32.149 opinion. Pun intended. If you are only humble, 00:08:32.330 --> 00:08:35.409 I don't think that's enough because you will 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:38.970 never have enough ambition. So I think if you 00:08:38.970 --> 00:08:41.809 are confident and believe in your ability to 00:08:41.809 --> 00:08:44.629 do it and to succeed, that's important as well, 00:08:44.750 --> 00:08:47.409 which often brings that confidence as well, especially 00:08:47.409 --> 00:08:50.149 if you are successful long -term, it gives you 00:08:50.149 --> 00:08:53.210 some arrogance as well. But if you manage to 00:08:53.210 --> 00:08:56.049 weigh it up, if you manage to balance it with 00:08:56.049 --> 00:09:00.070 a bit of humility, with a bit of sort of grain 00:09:00.070 --> 00:09:04.629 of not thinking you are the best and always thinking 00:09:04.629 --> 00:09:09.620 forward wanting to develop despite knowing that 00:09:09.620 --> 00:09:12.820 you are good already that is how you become the 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:15.139 best yeah and i think there's another player 00:09:15.139 --> 00:09:17.899 on the field sorry who i think there's another 00:09:17.899 --> 00:09:20.460 player on the field who also has done yeah so 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:22.779 can you say this again i will remove that part 00:09:22.779 --> 00:09:25.240 sorry we stopped over each other okay you say 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.320 okay so i think there's another player on the 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.740 field that has the same attitude and that's garnacho 00:09:30.740 --> 00:09:34.240 alejandro garnacho i think he also has this um 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.750 he's less prominent In a sense, he's not as present 00:09:38.750 --> 00:09:42.450 in his attitude as Bruno Fernandes, of course, 00:09:42.570 --> 00:09:46.330 because he's not the captain or a prime player. 00:09:46.549 --> 00:09:50.330 But he's also able to reflect, to change, to 00:09:50.330 --> 00:09:53.110 keep up the mentality of, I need to score, I 00:09:53.110 --> 00:09:56.549 need to fight for my position. So that's also 00:09:56.549 --> 00:09:58.970 another player that really has the same. And 00:09:58.970 --> 00:10:00.990 we saw that during the Arsenal game as well. 00:10:01.049 --> 00:10:04.330 He had very good movements. He was able to move 00:10:04.330 --> 00:10:07.240 around. around the Arsenal players, around the 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:11.720 Arsenal defence very easily. So, yeah, I think 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.960 if we compare United under Ten Hag and United 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.799 now, even though they're playing worse now... 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.840 The results are worse now, right? The results 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.539 are worse. The win rate is worse. Yeah, but some 00:10:26.539 --> 00:10:29.100 players who are kind of bad for the attitude 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:33.019 of the team, like Anthony... You know, I don't 00:10:33.019 --> 00:10:34.639 know whether the players were bad for the team. 00:10:34.700 --> 00:10:36.860 I don't know what Ten Hag did to some of those 00:10:36.860 --> 00:10:40.600 players. But, you know, Anthony is playing very 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:48.460 well now. So, you know, it's something that attitude 00:10:48.460 --> 00:10:52.059 like some sort of curse maybe that hangs around 00:10:52.059 --> 00:10:55.480 United. No, this is important. Like you need 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.720 to see something, right? Even if the results 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.700 are not there, you need to see some sort of... 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.000 positivity out of it. You need to see some signs 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.919 of a brighter future. And if you don't, as a 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.259 fan, as a United fan, being in the 15th place, 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:13.080 that must be a tough pill to swallow. So I think 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.100 a draw against Arsenal, a team that is sort of, 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:20.279 they think they are in the title. I don't think 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.980 they have been there for the last two months, 00:11:23.059 --> 00:11:26.750 but okay. the Arsenal fans want them to be in 00:11:26.750 --> 00:11:28.610 the title race and they are in the second place. 00:11:28.789 --> 00:11:35.490 So if anyone can put Liverpool's hopes of winning 00:11:35.490 --> 00:11:41.009 title in danger or at risk, then it would have 00:11:41.009 --> 00:11:43.730 to probably be Arsenal. I mean, Nottingham Forest 00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:47.789 have a great season, but come on, not them. Manchester 00:11:47.789 --> 00:11:50.610 City, they are out already. They just lost to 00:11:50.610 --> 00:11:53.620 Nottingham Forest, speaking of which. it has 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:56.259 to be Arsenal. So a draw against Arsenal with 00:11:56.259 --> 00:11:59.220 decent performance, a deserved draw in my opinion. 00:11:59.220 --> 00:12:01.940 If you look at the stats, okay, you do have only 00:12:01.940 --> 00:12:04.700 one third of possession. So Arsenal were dominant 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:07.360 on the ball, but that means nothing in football, 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.080 right? These days. So if you look at chances, 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.700 Arsenal have a few more, but I don't know about 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:18.480 the XG, but I think the XG might be on your side 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.120 because you had some... like david raya the arsenal 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.320 keeper had a double save towards the end of the 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.580 game you might have nicked it there remember 00:12:26.580 --> 00:12:30.480 that chance yeah the double chance you had yeah 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:35.580 yeah i agree i think um i think they can be proud 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:37.919 of this result i mean it could have been like 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.320 three four nil uh against arsenal which is also 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.500 a very good team for you for you you could have 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:47.759 won it three four one right i think i thought 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.570 you had some chances there Yeah, but I don't 00:12:50.570 --> 00:12:54.789 think that... I think the team mentality is not 00:12:54.789 --> 00:12:58.269 winning 3 -4 -0 or 3 -4 -1. I don't think so. 00:12:58.549 --> 00:13:02.070 I know what you mean. I think Arsenal also didn't 00:13:02.070 --> 00:13:05.169 start the game very well. They were also sort 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:08.730 of off. It's not the Arsenal from last season. 00:13:08.769 --> 00:13:11.929 Definitely not. Yeah, something isn't right there. 00:13:12.429 --> 00:13:16.330 Yeah. We were happy to score through Declan Rice. 00:13:16.590 --> 00:13:19.909 It was a good equalizer. I mean, fantastic shot 00:13:19.909 --> 00:13:24.429 off the post. We thought, oh, okay, maybe we 00:13:24.429 --> 00:13:28.009 could win it now. But then it didn't happen. 00:13:28.350 --> 00:13:32.830 And I think in the end, we should be grateful 00:13:32.830 --> 00:13:37.210 for the draw because of that double save from 00:13:37.210 --> 00:13:40.309 Raya. I think we should be grateful for the draw 00:13:40.309 --> 00:13:45.960 as well. I think so. Really? Okay then. I guess 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:50.539 it's a fair result in the end, right? I want 00:13:50.539 --> 00:13:54.340 to ask you about Mazraoui because I thought he 00:13:54.340 --> 00:13:57.200 was excellent in the game. The Moroccan, in my 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.620 opinion, was the man of the match. At least for 00:14:00.620 --> 00:14:04.840 your side. Would you say so? Yeah, I think he 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:10.500 played well, definitely. I don't have anything 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:14.419 in particular that I thought was excellent. But 00:14:14.419 --> 00:14:18.559 I think Masori is also improving game after game. 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:21.559 That's definitely true. In the beginning, you 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.179 could see that he was sort of uncomfortable at 00:14:24.179 --> 00:14:28.500 United. It felt off. It felt weird. He's now... 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:33.500 He's made his... He's found his spot. I don't 00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:36.679 think he was a good addition to the team. I don't 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:38.940 feel it was necessary, but Ten Hag thought, well, 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.899 let's make Ajax again. Now that he's there, we 00:14:42.899 --> 00:14:45.860 might have to roll with him. Yeah, yeah. Okay. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:50.940 And then also one more name, Aydin Haven, because 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:54.240 he's an ex -Arsenal player. He's a youngster 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.679 that came from the Arsenal Academy, I believe. 00:14:56.860 --> 00:14:59.379 And he's now playing for your team, for Manchester 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:01.659 United. I think he played in the second half, 00:15:01.740 --> 00:15:03.700 didn't he? So what did you make of his performance? 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.480 I missed the final part of the game, but I did 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.879 see him come on, and I heard the commentator 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.580 say that it was his debut. So that was very nice. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.299 I haven't seen him play, actually. Was it a good 00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:21.600 addition to the team? I was watching the game 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:24.399 in a pub with my friend, and you can imagine 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.659 you talk a lot during the game, and it's very 00:15:26.659 --> 00:15:29.600 emotional, and the focus is not there fully. 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.320 Another friend, Nrub. You know Nrub? He has been 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:37.220 on this show many times. He then pointed out 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:40.460 to me that this was a player that came from Arsenal, 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:43.080 which is an interesting connection there. Oh, 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.100 yeah. I noticed that Amorim is playing lots of 00:15:47.100 --> 00:15:52.399 young players. Many young players. Yeah, that's 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.139 good. That's good. Ruben Amorim, let's give him 00:15:55.139 --> 00:15:59.740 a shot, shall we? Yeah. At least he's not playing 00:15:59.740 --> 00:16:02.919 Harry Maguire that often anymore. come on he's 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:08.139 not he's he's he's not as bad as like two three 00:16:08.139 --> 00:16:10.659 years four years ago when that's the joke of 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:12.480 the league but you know it's not a it's not a 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.519 show with me if i don't say something about harry 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:18.200 mcguire it's tradition that is that is true it's 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.559 a tradition on any shows we've done with leon 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.360 test in the past that's true that's true Okay, 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.940 so now that we have you here then, why not ask 00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:31.659 you about... We can ask you about Arne Slot. 00:16:31.740 --> 00:16:34.679 So, top of the league Liverpool, you're Dutch. 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:39.059 So, Arne Slot is from the Netherlands. You must 00:16:39.059 --> 00:16:44.039 be very proud of him, right? Doing so well with 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.360 Liverpool after Jurgen Klopp, which is a tough 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.899 act to follow as well. Yeah. My father -in -law 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:55.230 is a Liverpool fan. So every time United loses, 00:16:55.450 --> 00:16:58.009 he asks me, so how did United play this weekend? 00:16:58.669 --> 00:17:05.369 But he's into Liverpool. And I think Arne Slot 00:17:05.369 --> 00:17:09.670 is doing a good job. I know that Arne Slot is 00:17:09.670 --> 00:17:13.849 someone well -educated. So I think he studied 00:17:13.849 --> 00:17:16.690 something at the university here. So he's well 00:17:16.690 --> 00:17:18.789 -educated, well -spoken. And you can see that 00:17:18.789 --> 00:17:23.009 in how he does. I do think... that he kind of 00:17:23.009 --> 00:17:27.170 got on a train that was already running, right? 00:17:27.289 --> 00:17:30.750 It ran well. That's true. But that can also be 00:17:30.750 --> 00:17:33.910 messed up. That can also be done wrong. I mean, 00:17:33.910 --> 00:17:37.009 I've looked at Moyes and United, so it's not 00:17:37.009 --> 00:17:41.730 always the case that this happens. But then again, 00:17:41.910 --> 00:17:46.259 he did have, he inherited a very good team. But 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:48.700 then again, he's top of the league now and he 00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:51.259 still is and they're going to win definitely. 00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:54.680 So that's a good thing. And the predictions were 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.200 not like they would win the league. Now they 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:01.039 are going to win it. So I think he deserves more 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.740 credit than you're giving him. I think you're 00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:05.519 just being humble because he's from your country. 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:10.400 There we are again talking about humility here. 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:12.900 But I think so, man. I think he deserves a lot 00:18:12.900 --> 00:18:16.019 of credit. respect for what he has done with 00:18:16.019 --> 00:18:19.720 Liverpool this season. Because many of the Dutch 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:23.640 coaches and trainers in the Premier League have 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.220 struggled. And he hasn't. So that's very good, 00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:31.240 of course. And the last thing I want to mention 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:38.079 is PSV Eindhoven, who lost 1 -7 to Arsenal in 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.319 the Champions League. So how about that? Did 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:44.240 you notice that result as well? No, I heard about 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.920 it while watching the game. I think one of the 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.539 commentators mentioned, well, Arsenal found out 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:52.579 that Manchester United isn't PSV. So I thought, 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.519 okay, well, that makes sense, of course. This 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.259 is the first time I heard about it, about the 00:18:57.259 --> 00:19:00.400 actual results. It was 1 -7 at home as well. 00:19:00.539 --> 00:19:04.279 It was in the Europa League? Yeah, no, it was 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:07.099 in Champions League. in the Netherlands. So that 00:19:07.099 --> 00:19:10.359 was a terrible result for the team from your 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.099 country, obviously. But then at least your mood, 00:19:13.220 --> 00:19:17.000 obviously, must have improved after that United 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.599 result. Yeah, well, I mean, PSV is considered 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.920 top tier in the Netherlands, right? It's PSV, 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.140 Ajax and Feyenoord, Rotterdam, who are usually 00:19:26.140 --> 00:19:28.920 the top three. Sometimes we have AZ, who played 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.880 against Tottenham in the Europa League. So that's 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.720 kind of our... best of the best that we have. 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:41.779 My team, Groningen, is not that good. But I like 00:19:41.779 --> 00:19:49.480 the name. Groningen. Groningen. I told you before, 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.799 Czech people can say G. We can say it because 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.339 we also have it. Yours is a bit stronger, but 00:19:56.339 --> 00:19:59.200 it's tough for English people to say G, I think, 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:01.220 because they don't have that sound. Groningen. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:06.099 Groningen, okay. And on that note, I think it 00:20:06.099 --> 00:20:09.339 was interesting. 7 -1, losing 7 -1 to Arsenal. 00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:11.779 But then again, you know, Arsenal is, of course, 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.240 top tier Premier League. So it's not like you've 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:18.039 lost 7 -1 to Fulham or something. That would 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:20.579 have been worse, I think. Okay, Leontes. And 00:20:20.579 --> 00:20:23.180 on that note, we're going to part ways here on 00:20:23.180 --> 00:20:25.720 this podcast, if that's okay with you. Yeah. 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:28.660 I'll do the language corner as usual. Thank you 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:30.880 very much for being a guest and talking to us. 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:33.680 Thank you for having me. Manchester United. It's 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.319 always a pleasure, man. Bye -bye. Bye. Take care, 00:20:37.380 --> 00:20:45.680 man. Welcome back to the Language Corner. Today 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.619 I would like to take a look at how prepositions 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:52.240 can be used at the end of sentences and questions. 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:57.500 So, normally prepositions are used somewhere 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:59.859 in the middle of a sentence or a question, but 00:20:59.859 --> 00:21:03.119 occasionally they appear at the end. For example, 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.619 in the interview with Leontes, I asked Leontes, 00:21:08.660 --> 00:21:11.099 what did you make of the United's performance? 00:21:11.420 --> 00:21:15.859 That was better from you, wasn't it? And Leontes 00:21:15.859 --> 00:21:19.839 responded to that by saying, it's nothing to 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.279 be proud of. No, actually, he said, it's not 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.839 anything to be proud of, which is pretty much 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.680 the same thing. So notice how the preposition 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:33.250 of is at the end. Now, this happens when we have 00:21:33.250 --> 00:21:37.410 relative clauses. For example, this is a type 00:21:37.410 --> 00:21:41.450 of performance that we should be proud of. That 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:44.670 we should be proud of, or just we should be proud 00:21:44.670 --> 00:21:49.630 of, is a relative clause. It tells you more information 00:21:49.630 --> 00:21:51.930 about the word performance. What kind of performance 00:21:51.930 --> 00:21:55.930 is it? It's a type of performance that we should 00:21:55.930 --> 00:21:58.549 be proud of. And in those type of sentences, 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.059 clauses, sorry, we put prepositions at the very 00:22:03.059 --> 00:22:08.119 end. It's possible to say also this is the type 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:12.500 of performance of which we should be proud but 00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:15.119 that sounds way too formal. Let me give you another 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:20.259 example. I could say this is not a football team 00:22:20.259 --> 00:22:24.500 that I am interested in. Again, we can just say 00:22:24.500 --> 00:22:26.799 this is not a football team I'm interested in. 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:30.380 This is not the kind of football that I'd like 00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:34.079 to look at. So notice how the preposition always 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:37.180 goes at the end. The same happens when we ask 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:41.259 a WH questions. For example, what are you proud 00:22:41.259 --> 00:22:48.940 of? What is the most interesting thing that you 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:56.160 have been involved in, right? What is the strangest 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.839 thing you have ever had to look at? Well, that's 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.920 more of a combination of a WH question and a 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.680 relative clause. Anyway, I am getting a little 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.480 bit sidetracked here. The point is, sometimes 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.480 in English, we use prepositions at the end, in 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.559 relative clauses and in questions. What is important 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.000 for you to remember is how we actually pronounce 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.960 that preposition. Most often than not, prepositions 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.420 are pronounced with their weak forms. So instead 00:23:26.420 --> 00:23:29.299 of of, you would say something like of. I'm proud 00:23:29.299 --> 00:23:33.099 of you. I'm proud of you. Proud of you, right? 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:37.740 I'm not interested in it. I'm not interested 00:23:37.740 --> 00:23:41.039 in it. In it, almost. You say like in it with 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.539 the weak form. But when this preposition is at 00:23:45.539 --> 00:23:48.539 the end of the sentence or a question, it's always 00:23:48.539 --> 00:23:51.900 pronounced with the strong form. Because we put 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:55.359 one of the most important words are always at 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:57.839 the end of questions or sentences. That's why. 00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:02.859 So what are you proud of? Proud of, not of. And 00:24:02.859 --> 00:24:05.400 then you can respond by saying, I'm proud of 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:10.160 you. I'm proud of Arsenal. Of. Is this the team 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.539 you're proud of? Of. You see? What are you proud 00:24:14.539 --> 00:24:17.960 of? What's the team you're proud of? Do you notice 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:20.980 the difference? I hope you do. There are some 00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:23.140 other cases when we can stress prepositions, 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:25.440 even when they are in the middle, but those are 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:28.970 usually just for special emphasis. Okay, guys, 00:24:29.049 --> 00:24:31.890 I hope this was understandable and clear. Today 00:24:31.890 --> 00:24:35.890 I went slightly off script, I have to say. It 00:24:35.890 --> 00:24:39.990 was a bit longer than I wanted it to be. But 00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:42.009 that happens sometimes, doesn't it? It happens 00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:45.130 to the best of us. Anyway, if you do enjoy these 00:24:45.130 --> 00:24:48.509 episodes, please let me know. I don't know, because 00:24:48.509 --> 00:24:51.309 I know I have some listeners. I can see the number 00:24:51.309 --> 00:24:54.970 of downloads. But, to be frank... I could do 00:24:54.970 --> 00:24:58.309 with some more comments and feedback from my 00:24:58.309 --> 00:25:02.190 listeners. Okay, guys, don't forget to like this 00:25:02.190 --> 00:25:04.809 video if you did enjoy this episode of the Footgrish 00:25:04.809 --> 00:25:08.009 podcast. And take care, everyone. Look after 00:25:08.009 --> 00:25:09.609 yourselves. Bye -bye.