What team do you support?

Jonathan: Hi, everyone. Hi, Tina!

Tina: Hiya! How are you doing?

Jonathan: Very well. How are you?

Tina: Yeah, not too bad. It's a beautiful day here in England, for a change.

Jonathan: Oh, I'm glad. Good, good. Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about football today as the Women's World Cup is coming up soon.

Tina: Yeah. Have you ever seen them play?

Jonathan: Only on TV. Yeah, only on TV. I'd love to go to a match one day, but, yeah, so far I've only seen them play on TV, yeah. I'm supporting the England team this, er, in the Women's World Cup.

Tina: Me too, definitely. Yeah, yeah. They were here last year in Brighton and they, um, it was just up the road, actually. We couldn't get tickets, but it was an amazing atmosphere. Everyone was just rooting for them. It was brilliant, really good.

Jonathan: Oh, wow. It's a shame you couldn't get tickets.

Tina: I know, I know. One day, like you!

Jonathan: Yeah. So …

Tina: So do you support a team? Oh, you're going to ask me, aren't you?

Jonathan: The same question, yes! Do you support a team? Yeah. Do you support a team?

Tina: I do support a team. I supported it more when I was younger, but I support Arsenal. I'm from North London.

Jonathan: Arsenal?

Tina: Yeah, Arsenal, yes. And you?

Jonathan: OK. I support one of Arsenal's rivals, I guess. Yeah, I'm a West Ham supporter. Yeah, sorry!

Tina: No! Boo!

Jonathan: We'll have to put our feelings to the side for this conversation, but, yeah, I'm a West Ham supporter, yeah, from East London, yeah. 

Tina: So how come you're a supporter from there? Just because that's where you grew up?

Jonathan: Exactly, yes. So yeah, I was born and grew up in that area, in East London. So it had to be West Ham for that reason. It could have been Manchester City if I'd been born elsewhere, but not! How about you? How do you support, why do you support Arsenal?

Tina: Arsenal, well, it's a bit of a strange story. When I was in primary school, so I was quite young, so I grew up, I was born and bred in North London and when I was at primary school we used to play this game and we had this sort of quite a big bench that we had to run around. And this particular time was if you got caught by a boy that supported Arsenal, you had to support Arsenal. If you got caught by a boy who supported Tottenham, or Spurs, you had to support them. And luckily, I was caught by a boy who supported or a kid who supported Arsenal, and so yeah – I supported Arsenal. And I like the colour red, so it was a win–win situation.

Jonathan: OK. Oh, that's so funny! That's such a funny story. Luckily, you say?

Tina: Well, yeah, yes. Luckily. Have you, when was the last time you saw a match?

Jonathan: Well, I did go to a match last summer, but to be honest I don't go very often. Yeah, that was the only match I've been to in the past five years, so, yeah, mainly I watch football and sports on TV now. How about you, have you been to any matches recently?

Tina: Not to Arsenal. I haven't been for a long, long time to Arsenal, but I did, I was able to go to an England match – um, was it the World Cup? – a couple of years ago.

Jonathan: Oh yeah?

Tina: Yeah. So I went to see England play Ukraine in Rome, and it was absolutely amazing. The atmosphere was electric. It was brilliant and it was such a good atmosphere, no sort of nasty bits going on. It was just great, really, really good. And I didn't have a voice left from all the cheering at the end.

Jonathan: OK, oh, brilliant! Yeah, that sounds really exciting, yeah, and in Rome! Wow. What an experience!

Tina: Yeah, it was. No gladiators or anything, but there was, it was a good, good day out. Very hot, very hot. I remember it being really hot.

Jonathan: OK, well, great to talk, Tina, and it'll be great if you could let us know in the comments – who do you support? We're looking forward to hearing from you. OK, bye!

Tina: Lovely to see you again. See you soon!