The aim of the paper is to study the lexical features of English football discourse.
The research object is the vocabulary of English football discourse.
The research subject is football discourse.
The topicality of the research. In modern languages, several varieties of football language can be distinguished, characterised by distinctive features of style, grammar and vocabulary. Sports observers and commentators all over the world try to outdo each other in using original and vivid words or phrases to break away from linguistic clichés.
