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The latest football news – The good, the bad and the ugly

Barcelona, Wolfsburg, Burnley and Paolo Maldini all celebrate but misery on Tyneside and controversy in Serie A all feature on this week’s good, the bad and the ugly section of languagecaster’s football podcast. Click on the link above to read more about the stories from last week, complete with explanations of key vocabulary.

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Weekly football phrase (audio and text) - English for Football

Chickens Come Home to Roost

This week’s English for football is, ‘the chickens come home to roost‘. This expression is used to say that something bad has happened because of mistakes, or bad behaviour, in the past. Someone did something wrong in the past and now trouble has come, or there is a big problem. It is close to the idea of ‘karma‘ in many Asian religions, or the phrase, ‘you reap what you sow‘. last weekend, Newcastle United were relegated from the premier league and many people think the chickens have come home to roost, that Newcastle’s past mistakes have resulted in their failure. For example, they first hired Sam Allardyce as manager and then soon sacked him, hired Kevin Keegan and forced him to leave, and have since had two more managers this season. They also bought expensive players with big wages but with little impact on the pitch. Their actions meant that the chickens came home to roost.

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And finally…this week’s QUIZ QUESTION:

Manchester United failed to retain the Champions League trophy this week. Which was the last team to win two European Cups in a row?

a) AC Milan

b) Juventus

c) Nottingham Forest

d) Liverpool

Answer next week.

The answer to last week’s question about how many trophies Alan Shearer won in his career – b) 1 (The Premier League with Blackburn).

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