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Hello, everyone. This is Damian from the LanguageCaster

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team. I hope you are all doing well.

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We are going to start publishing some extra

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football language podcasts each week and, so in

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today's football phrase of the week,

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we'll look at the phrase

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to route.

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To route another team.

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Well, it was a good weekend for my

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favorite team, Tottenham,

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as we beat the champions, Manchester City, 4

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nil away from home.

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When a team wins by a large score,

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we often use verbs like to thrash or

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to hammer

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and Damon's favorite,

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to batter.

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So, for example, we can say that England

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thrashed the Republic of Ireland 5 nil in

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their recent Nations League game

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or that Germany

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hammered or battered

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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71

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in their recent Nations League game.

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Another verb with a similar meaning to this

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is to route,

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which means a complete

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defeat

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of the opposition

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and this is what happened at the Etihad

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last weekend

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as Tottenham not only scored 4 times

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but they dominated

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the home side throughout the game.

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The word route in football

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suggest that the opposition is broken or completely

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disorganized.

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And after 5 straight or consecutive

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defeats,

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Manchester City now look like a disorganized

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side.

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We mentioned the verbs to thrash, to hammer,

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and to batter, and all of these have

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noun forms that are also commonly used in

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football.

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So the thrashing of Ireland,

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the hammering of Bosnia, and so on.

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We also use the noun form of to

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route which is a route.

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So for example we can say that the

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Spurs route of Man City

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was one of their best performances

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of the season.

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Can you think of any other examples of

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the verb to route?

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Or how would you say this in another

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language?

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Let us know by dropping us a line

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here at admin@languagecaster.com.

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We'll be back with some more football language

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later on in the week. And until then,

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goodbye.