About this episode

This episode discusses the favourites, dark horses, and flops of the 2026 World Cup while providing language insights and predictions.

The men’s World Cup starts this week and in this week's football-language podcast we look at some language to describe the favourites, the dark horses and the flops from the 2026 World Cup tournament. We will also offer some predictions for the tournament. We also have an online worksheet for this listening. The post Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2026 World Cup – Favourites, Dark Horses and Flops appeared first on Learn English Through Football .

People in this episode

Hosts: Damon Brewster, Damian Fitzpatrick

Topics covered

• World Cup
• football language
• predictions
• favourites
• dark horses
• flops

Keywords

• 2026 World Cup
• football
• language
• predictions
• favourites
• dark horses
• flops

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