Hello, everyone. This is Damian from the LanguageCaster
team. I hope you are all doing well.
We are going to start publishing some extra
football language podcasts each week and, so in
today's football phrase of the week,
we'll look at the phrase
to route.
To route another team.
Well, it was a good weekend for my
favorite team, Tottenham,
as we beat the champions, Manchester City, 4
nil away from home.
When a team wins by a large score,
we often use verbs like to thrash or
to hammer
and Damon's favorite,
to batter.
So, for example, we can say that England
thrashed the Republic of Ireland 5 nil in
their recent Nations League game
or that Germany
hammered or battered
Bosnia and Herzegovina
71
in their recent Nations League game.
Another verb with a similar meaning to this
is to route,
which means a complete
defeat
of the opposition
and this is what happened at the Etihad
last weekend
as Tottenham not only scored 4 times
but they dominated
the home side throughout the game.
The word route in football
suggest that the opposition is broken or completely
disorganized.
And after 5 straight or consecutive
defeats,
Manchester City now look like a disorganized
side.
We mentioned the verbs to thrash, to hammer,
and to batter, and all of these have
noun forms that are also commonly used in
football.
So the thrashing of Ireland,
the hammering of Bosnia, and so on.
We also use the noun form of to
route which is a route.
So for example we can say that the
Spurs route of Man City
was one of their best performances
of the season.
Can you think of any other examples of
the verb to route?
Or how would you say this in another
language?
Let us know by dropping us a line
here at admin@languagecaster.com.
We'll be back with some more football language
later on in the week. And until then,
goodbye.