English for Football 2006: Week 4 Takeover

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Each week we explain a soccer phrase or cliché on our weekly languagecaster podcast. You can find many more examples by going to our football clichés here.



Todaya€s English for football phrase is takeover. A takeover is when a businessman or a group of businessmen or business people buys another company, they control the company. In this weeka€s news, therea€s an Icelandic businessman called Eggert Magnusson and he is taking over West Ham. Hea€s going to pay A£85 million to be in control of West Hama€s football club, to take over the club.



Listen to Podcast 4 from 2006: Interview with Alison on sexism in football