Pratique du Shadowing: How Leicester City Collapsed - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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In May 2016, Leicester City completed arguably the biggest shock in football history by winning the Premier League.
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But just ten years later, they've been relegated to English football's third tier for only the second time in their history.
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The dream has turned into a nightmare.
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So what's gone wrong at Leicester City?
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Welcome to Tifo Football by The Athletic.
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Leicester's incredible journey had actually started six years before their league title, when they were taken over by Thai businessman Vishay Srivathana Prabha, known as Khun Vishay.
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Under his ownership, they experienced the high of promotion to the Premier League in 2014,
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a miraculous relegation escape in 2015 and of course the world famous fairytale title in 2016.
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The Champions League quarter-final followed in 2017,
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but in 2018, Kun Vishay tragically died in a helicopter crash outside Leicester's King Power Stadium that also killed four other people.
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His role as Leicester owner and chairman was taken over by his son Kun Top,
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who pledged to realise his father's vision for a club that could consistently challenge for Champions League football.
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He pressed ahead with his plans to build a state-of-the-art £100m training ground
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and an expansion of King Power Stadium to increase capacity to 40,000, and to build revenue-generating infrastructure outside the ground, including retail outlets, a hotel,
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restaurants, offices and an indoor arena.
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For a while, Leicester's success continued.
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Under manager Brendan Rodgers, they won a first-ever FA Cup in 2021
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and secured three consecutive top eight finishes in the Premier League.
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But in the background, key mistakes were being made.
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After their title success, Leicester Twitter had avoided profit and sustainability breaches by selling one key player each summer.
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But in the summer of 2021, they abandoned that model.
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With Rodgers' chosen head of recruitment, Lee Congleton, in charge, they signed Patson Dacca, Yannick Vestergaard and Boubacare Samare for big money without selling an asset.
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And Rodgers himself was earning £8 million per year, making him the highest paid manager in the club's history.
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All of this happened just as the club's revenue was starting to be hit by external factors.
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They had already committed to the training ground move when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and dramatically increased the cost of materials, though the stadium development was shelved.
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The pandemic also negatively impacted King Power, the tourism company that Kunvischai had founded and that Kun Top had taken over.
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was particularly badly affected, given that it's rooted in duty-free tourism retail.
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In the 2020-21 season, Leicester missed out on Champions League qualification on the final day of the season, and this proved to be a sliding doors moment.
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Had they qualified, the revenue could have justified their ambitious, risky approach.
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Not qualifying put a club that was perhaps uniquely vulnerable to the global economic circumstances of the time under even more strain.
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In 2022 they posted a loss of £92.5 million.
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Spending had spiralled out of control and by the 22-23 season Leicester's wages to revenue ratio had ballooned to a staggering 116%.
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That season the club sleepwalked towards relegation.
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Rodgers was not sacked until April, despite just seven wins in 29 matches with the seventh highest budget in the league.
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In the summer that followed relegation, seven senior players, who'd been recruited for a total investment of £107m, were allowed to run down their contracts and leave on free transfers.
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The financial impact of the relegation was disastrous.
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Leicester did gain promotion straight back to the Premier League the following year, but did so with the largest budget in Championship history
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and more significant losses that put them in breach of profit and sustainability regulations.
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Under the PSR, Premier League clubs are allowed to lose a maximum of £105m over three seasons or £35m a season.
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Championship clubs, meanwhile, follow similar rules and are permitted to lose up to £39m over a three-season period, or £13m per season.
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Across this three-year accounting period, Leicester spent two seasons in the Premier League and one in the Championship, meaning that they were permitted to lose a maximum of £83m.
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A Premier League statement claimed, however, that they'd breached the PSR threshold by £20.8m.
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Leicester argue that their threshold should have been the £105m given to teams who spent all three years in the Premier League,
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but this was dismissed by an independent commission who handed them a six-point deduction in February 2026.
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By this point, Leicester were already back in the Championship, looking for a sixth new manager in four years.
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They were looking because they'd just sacked Marti Sifuentes, who himself was not appointed until the eve of the first day of pre-season, so that the cost of sacking his predecessor,
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Ruud van Nisselrooy could be deferred to the following year's accounts for financial purposes.
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So with the season already going badly, Leicester were now facing a relegation battle but in the Championship this time, and decision makers were once again slow to act.
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It was as if no lessons had been learned from the 2022-23 Premier League season when the club sleepwalked into relegation.
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When the January transfer window opened, instead of adding players with experience of such a battle to help the cause,
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they brought in youngsters like Devine Mukasa from Manchester City and Dijuan Richards from Chelsea.
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Two talented players, but players without experience, especially of a relegation battle.
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They were thrust into a squad where some of their teammates had wanted to leave but couldn't, and others who knew they were leaving in the summer anyway.
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It's a dysfunctional dressing room, lacking in true leadership, and the supporters will not lament the loss of many of the departed.
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Inevitably, following relegation and a huge drop in revenue, the squad will have to be completely dismantled and rebuilt this summer,
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amidst huge financial cuts across every department of the club.
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The squad costs to revenue ratio has been reduced to 81% from the staggering 116 a few years earlier,
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but it will have to come down by another 20% at least in League One, meaning that young assets like Ben Nelson,
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Abdel Fattou and possibly Jeremy Monger will have to be sold.
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And whoever remains will see another relegation clause activated to cut their wages further.
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With the financial hit of relegation, the complete overhaul of the playing squad and lingering discontent around the club,
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it will take a herculean effort to win back the hearts and minds of a large section of the supporters.
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Amidst the anger, resentment and indignation at Leicester's fall from the pinnacle of English football, the overriding sentiment is that of sadness.
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The greatest fairy tale in English football history has now turned into such a tragedy.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « How Leicester City Collapsed ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : league, relegation, Leicester, Premier, club. Cette vidéo contient 64 phrases et 1107 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:50. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 162 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 78 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| relegation nom | relégation | |
| sack nom | /sæk/ | sac |
| breach nom | /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/ | brèche |
| stagger verbe | /ˈstæɡɚ/ | tituber |
| amidst | /aˈmɪdst/ | au milieu de, entre |
| sustainability nom | /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/ | durabilité |
| threshold nom | /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/ | seuil |
| supporter nom | /səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/ | partisan, partisane |
| qualify verbe | /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/ | caractériser, qualifier |
| deduction nom | /dɪˈdʌkʃən/ | déduction |
| dismantle verbe | /dɪsˈmæntəl/ | démonter, démanteler |
| dysfunctional adjectif | dysfonctionnel | |
| indignation nom | /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/ | indignation |
| lament nom | /ləˈmɛnt/ | lamentation |
| linger verbe | /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/ | s'installer, stagner |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| take over verbe | reprendre |
| come down verbe | descendre, tomber |
| run down verbe | heurter |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
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| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | they've been relegated · were taken · was taken |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | they've been relegated · has turned · has been reduced |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 5 contractions et formes réduites, comme they'd, couldn't, they've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, thrust /θɹʌst/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, deduction /dɪˈdʌkʃən/, indignation /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, shelve /ʃɛlv/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: sustainability /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/, indignation /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, predecessor /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, overhaul /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: breach /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/, pledge /plɛd͡ʒ/, tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/, justify /ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfaɪ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: breach /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/, threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, supporter /səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, override /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme relegation, sack, breach.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.