Weekly Football Phrase: One for the team

0:00Welcome to the Learn English through Football's weekly football phrase. On this show, we take a look at a phrase used to describe some action in the London Derby between Arsenal and Chelsea. The phrase is, one for the team. Funnings Damon, how are you, listener? It's a beautiful sunny day here in Tokyo, but rain is on the way. I hope you have some good weather where you are and that you're enjoying a football this week. Yes, you are listening to the Learn English through Football's podcast, or as we were known before, languagecaster and that message was in Korean. So, today's phrase is, one for the team, which is combined with the verb take, to take

1:09one for the team. This phrase is used when a player commits a deliberate foul and knows they will be booked, that they will be given a yellow card. In the Arsenal versus Chelsea game, Chelsea had a corner, but nothing came of it. Instead, Arsenal tried to break quickly and Bkaya Sakka was held and brought down by Chelsea player called Palmer. Palmer fouled Sakka deliberately and was booked, given a yellow card. However, his actions stopped a dangerous break. If Sakka was allowed to run, Arsenal had a good chance of a dangerous attack with four on three. In this situation, Palmer decided to stop the attack, but be punished with a yellow card. He took one for the team. The one means a booking or the punishment. This action is often praised by fans as a good thing to do, to make a sacrifice for

2:12the good of the team. Hello, my name is Matt, I'm a Huddersfield fan and you are listening to languagecaster.com. Thank you for that message. Now, the foul you make when you take one for the team is also known as a tactical foul. And again, this kind of foul is often thought of as sensible. It isn't a dangerous foul or a nasty challenge, instead it's a logical decision to try to help the team. A tactical foul doesn't automatically result in a yellow card, but if enough tactical fouls are committed by the same player, the referee may reach for his or her pocket to give a yellow card. Tactical fouling is all part of the dark arts. The dark arts involve time wasting, needle and tactical fouling. Check out our podcast on this by clicking on the link in the show notes.

3:17Another phrase you may hear when taking one for the team is blatant foul. A blatant foul is an obvious foul. Ironically, this phrase may be used as a complaint when a referee does not award a foul. Ref, that was a blatant foul. Fans might shout, thinking that the foul is so obvious, they can't understand why no free kick was awarded. So on today's weekly football language podcast, we look to the moment in the Arsenal vs. Chelsea match less regained, where Cole Palmer took one for the team by committing a tactical foul on soccer. It was a blatant foul. Let us know if there's any football language you would like explaining, or that you find interesting. Enjoy all the football and we'll be back next weekend with our Learn English through Football Podcast.