The Footglish Podcast: Learn English with Football
Sep 17, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
⚒️ What does it take to become a West Ham legend? In this episode, I’m joined by Clive, a lifelong West Ham fan, to remember Luděk Mikloško — a true West Ham legend who has sadly passed away. We…
Zdenek LukasHostCliveGuest
Yes, correct.
But no more and no less than anywhere else in the world.
You know, I mean, you look at somewhere like Harlem or the Bronx, let's just name in two places, you know, all right, very close to each other.
You never really heard of gangland shootings very often.
Like bad
Yeah, but obviously there were elements of that around which kind of fuelled that.
But I think these
days also because of the Cockney rhyming slang, there's some sort of, I don't know how to put it, but like some sort of nostalgia and like a little bit of glorification almost, you know, of that.
widely accepted as being created.
But, you know, I mean, the thing is it was accepted and adopted by just about everybody in the East End.
And not to hide, it was just because it was quite common that you would hear it in the playground or in the pub or in your local, you know, market stall or wherever.
And so, yeah, it kind of fuelled up a massive growth of the rhyming slang, you know, which still gets used today, but not quite as often.
I remember hearing it quite a lot when I used to work in Romford, which is in the east of London.
Yes, correct.
But no more and no less than anywhere else in the world.
You know, I mean, you look at somewhere like Harlem or the Bronx, let's just name in two places, you know, all right, very close to each other.
You never really heard of gangland shootings very often.
Like bad
Yeah, but obviously there were elements of that around which kind of fuelled that.
But I think these
days also because of the Cockney rhyming slang, there's some sort of, I don't know how to put it, but like some sort of nostalgia and like a little bit of glorification almost, you know, of that.
widely accepted as being created.
But, you know, I mean, the thing is it was accepted and adopted by just about everybody in the East End.
And not to hide, it was just because it was quite common that you would hear it in the playground or in the pub or in your local, you know, market stall or wherever.
And so, yeah, it kind of fuelled up a massive growth of the rhyming slang, you know, which still gets used today, but not quite as often.
I remember hearing it quite a lot when I used to work in Romford, which is in the east of London.
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