Sparta in Crisis!!!

As always, in this part of the show, what I do is that I analyze the language, I pick it apart, I take a look at some interesting vocabulary, and then give you some definitions, examples, and so on.

This is the idea, and the vocabulary comes from the main interview or the main sort of content of this episode, and this time it was a wonderful interview with my English student.

I have to say, well done, Ben, because I cannot imagine making my podcasting debut or even sort of speaking like this into a microphone at the age of 13.

I honestly, uh, big, big up to you.

Big up to you.

Um, hats off to you, I could say as well.

Well done, Ben.

So, in this episode, Ben was talking about his favorite Sparta shirt.

He said he really likes the third kit.

Now let's take a look at the word kit.

First of all, guys, not kid.

Kit.

K-I-T, not K-I-D.

A kid is obviously a child, but K-I-T, that's a different story.

K-I-T is basically what the football players are dressed in, right? Um, a kit is essentially the complete set of clothing a football team wears for a match, right? So, uh, so you speak about, uh, a home kit.

This is a kit for home games, right? So it's, it's the shirt, the s- the shorts, and socks as well, right? So all together we call it a kit.

So we have a home kit, an away kit, and then also there's a third kit just in case, just in case you need, you need to use it if neither of the home, uh, uh, nor away kit, um, is suitable for the game.

So for example you could say something like, "Sparta have unveiled their home...

Sparta have unveiled their new home kit," right? "Ahead of the season." That's what teams usually do.

This, today it's a big part of marketing and it's just a way to make a lot of cash, a lot of money for the, for the clubs.

And obviously, uh, this is something fans can buy in the merchandise stores.

And, uh, it's, there's a big business, uh, around it, especially if you buy, um, some kind of s- football star, then everybody starts buying the shirts.

You, you probably, guys, have done it too yourselves.

Right.

So that's, that's the word kit.