Abstract
Sport in general and football in particular have become the most popular form of amusement nowadays throughout the special performance of the commentators who comment on the game. Their duty is to provide the audience with the relevant information about what is happening during the game and to amuse them at the same time. They often do that by using specific linguistic features.
 
 The present study mainly tackles amusement in British football commentary language from a pragmatic point of view by selecting (2) football matches of (4) British commentators who are Martin Tyler, Andy Gray, Alan Perry and Gary Neville. As such, it is carried out with the aim of exploring the phases of commentaries according to which the football commentary is considered amusing, identifying the strategies of commentary used by the commentators in each phase, specifying the pragmatic devices used in each strategy of football commentaries which make these commentaries amusing. 
 
 On the basis of the analysis, the following conclusions can be made: The commentaries are achieved in three phases, i.e., play-by-play, colour commentary and action replay which make the commentaries as amused, the commentaries are structured out of three strategies, descriptive, dramatic and humorous, and in the whole pragmatic structure of amusement in football commentaries, each strategy is variously fulfilled by means of certain pragmatic devices associated with it to achieve amusement.
Highlights
Sports nowadays are associated with business, education, technology transfer, entertainment and moral training (Coakley, 2001, p. 79)
Sport in general and football in particular have become the most popular form of amusement nowadays throughout the special performance of the commentators who comment on the game
Their duty is to provide the audience with the relevant information about what is happening during the game and to amuse them at the same time
Summary
Sports nowadays are associated with business, education, technology transfer, entertainment and moral training (Coakley, 2001, p. 79). Sport in general and football in particular have become the most popular form of entertainment nowadays It has become the center of the attention of studies because of the large amounts of money that are invested in it Their job is to provide commentary and to entertain and amuse the audience at the same time They have to be on alert during the whole time of the football game in order to be linguistically accurate, speaking without hesitation and reluctance in describing the unfolding events immediately and on the spot not to miss any single detail. The nature of their job and the setting in which they deliver their speech make their speech very specific
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