Shadowing Practice: How Leicester City Collapsed - Learn English Speaking with Video
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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “How Leicester City Collapsed”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: league, relegation, Leicester, Premier, club. Deze video bevat 64 zinnen en 1107 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:50. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 162 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| relegation zelfstandig naamwoord | degradatie | |
| sack zelfstandig naamwoord | /sæk/ | zak |
| breach zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/ | bres, gat |
| stagger werkwoord | /ˈstæɡɚ/ | wankelen, waggelen |
| sustainability zelfstandig naamwoord | /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/ | duurzaamheid |
| threshold zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/ | drempel |
| supporter zelfstandig naamwoord | /səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/ | partijganger, partijgangster |
| deduction zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈdʌkʃən/ | aftrek, inhouding |
| dismantle werkwoord | /dɪsˈmæntəl/ | ontmantelen |
| dysfunctional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | disfunctioneel | |
| indignation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/ | verontwaardiging |
| lament zelfstandig naamwoord | /ləˈmɛnt/ | klaagzang |
| linger werkwoord | /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/ | treuzelen, talmen |
| miraculous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/ | miraculeus, verwonderlijk |
| override werkwoord | /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/ | afjakkeren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| take over werkwoord | overnemen |
| run down werkwoord | aanrijden |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | they've been relegated · were taken · was taken |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | they've been relegated · has turned · has been reduced |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they'd, couldn't, they've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, thrust /θɹʌst/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, deduction /dɪˈdʌkʃən/, indignation /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, shelve /ʃɛlv/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: sustainability /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/, indignation /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, predecessor /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, override /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/, shelve /ʃɛlv/, rebuild /ɹiːˈbɪld/, clause /klɔːz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: sack /sæk/, stagger /ˈstæɡɚ/, dismantle /dɪsˈmæntəl/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: stagger /ˈstæɡɚ/, indignation /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, linger /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/, relegate /ˈɹɛlɪˌɡeɪt/, arguably /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als relegation, sack, breach.
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