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Because Red Pitch features three soccer-obsessed 16-year-old characters from South London, we have created a glossary of soccer and slang terms you may not be familiar with to help you enjoy the show. If you don't deep when someone's capping about their tekkers being better than Mbappe's, then you might want to give it a look.

Slang Terms

Endz Block or neighborhood that is home

Light work easy or simple

Lit/Litty exciting or fun

Cap/Capping lie or exaggeration

Defo short for defi nitely

Gassed being excited

Shook to be shocked or surprised

Crib someone’s house or residence

Linking to meet or connect with someone

Snap short for the social media app Snapchat, where you send pictures or videos back and forth with friends

Securing that bag making money

Bloodclart Jamaican slang for a sanitary pad

P British Pounds or money

Deep/Deeped to understand or notice

Bare a lot of something, as in...

Bare Gyal lots of girls

Sent confronted

Soccer Terms

Sitter an easy goal

Howler a goalkeeping gaffe

Tekkers smooth and skillful moves.

Top bins a shot into the upper corner of the goal.

On form a hot streak.

Pens penalty kicks

Gapped to signifi cantly outrun your opponent

Mbappe Kylian Mbappe, widely regarded as the best soccer player in the world, and is currently playing for Real Madrid

Jadon Sancho an English football star from South London currently playing for the Premier League club Aston Villa

FIFA a popular soccer video game licensed by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

FA one-on-one soccer game, with a shared goalie

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