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Dear email,
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Our columnist Ian McMaster is right: if you’re English and you love football, heartache is often just a penalty shot away. I’m not a dedicated fan, but I try to watch when England plays – I’ve watched matches in London pubs, in Munich beer gardens and once memorably while crossing the Atlantic by ship – but the great hopes I brought to those experiences very often ended in disappointment. Find out more about the heartbreak that has been the lot of English fans by reading Ian’s funny and moving column below.
England’s international disasters don’t seem to have curbed the enthusiasm of foreign investors to buy or at least make an investment in football clubs in Great Britain – Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who own the club Wrexham, are perhaps the best known of these investors. In “Why American investors love English football”, we give you background on this trend.
Next week, Judith Gilbert, editor-in-chief of Business Spotlight, will be back with more interesting topics from around the English-speaking world.
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Inez Sharp
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Editor-in-chief, Spotlight
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heartache: Kummer | penalty: Elfmeter | dedicated: passioniert | memorable: denkwürdig | heartbreak: Herzschmerz | lot: hier: Schicksal, Los | curb sth.: etw. dämpfen | editor-in-chief: Chefredakteur(in)
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Think the TOEFL iBT® Test Is Too Hard? Let’s Bust That Myth!
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The TOEFL iBT® test isn't about perfect English: it's about showing you can communicate effectively in an academic environment. Every year, students around the world take the test and use their scores to access study opportunities at leading universities, including across Europe. With the right preparation, you can do it too.
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Word of the Week
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move the goalposts
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Did you know...? You wouldn’t move the goalposts during a football match, right? But in real life, the rules sometimes change when the game is already under way. For example, when your boss adapts the parameters for your project’s success shortly before the deadline.
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goalpost: Torpfosten | under way: im Gange
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Football
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It’s a heartache...
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Our columnist Ian McMaster, from Bath, England, is Spotlight’s senior sports correspondent and a diehard West Ham supporter.
“The football World Cup – or FIFA World Cup, to use the official name – can break one’s heart. It certainly has mine. Many times.
“The first time was back in 1970. England had become world champions in 1966 after beating West Germany at Wembley. Four years later, in Mexico, after leading 2–0 in their quarter final, England somehow lost 3–2, also against West Germany. My 11-year-old self couldn’t understand how the impossible had happened. Tears flowed.
“Since 1966, England’s men and their fans have suffered 60 years of undiluted hurt. (Unlike our women’s team, the current European champions.) The Wembley World Cup win was, indeed – as the Rolling Stones had predicted the year before – ‘The Last Time’. That’s three times we haven’t even qualified. Italy, we feel your pain.”
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diehard: hier: eingefleischt | undiluted: hier: rein, pur
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Vocabulary
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Fluent in football
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Can you follow the English used by British football fans and commentators?
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© Image: Sandro Schuh / Unsplash.com
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Podcast
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A holiday for the Tartan army
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Scottish football fans get a special holiday, while others are thinking about walking 18 miles to the stadium in New Jersey... The Spotlight team share their favourite World Cup headlines.
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Tartan army: Spitzname für die schottischen Fußballfans
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© Image: zmeel via canva.com
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Sport
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Why American investors love English football
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are Hollywood celebrities. But they’re also the owners of Wrexham AFC, a football club in the small city of Wrexham, in the north-eastern corner of Wales. And they’re not alone.
With the FIFA World Cup, football is coming to North America in 2026 but, in Britain, Americans have been coming to football. More than half of the 92 clubs in the four professional English leagues (which include some Welsh clubs) have at least some American ownership – including big names such as Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.
What are these investors looking for?
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league: Liga | ownership: hier: Anteilbesitz
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Facts and Figures
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Fighting discrimination
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Many policies and laws are designed to prevent discrimination based on a person’s
race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability and more. Despite this,
prejudices are hard to eliminate and can still be the cause of unfair treatment.
Most of the countries with the highest gender equality are in Europe. However, according to the World Economic Forum, only 14 countries have full equal rights for
women – including Germany, Sweden and Iceland.
Northern European countries, New Zealand and Canada have comparatively low
levels of racism, although the World Population Review notes that measuring racial tolerance is hard to do accurately.
When it comes to ageism, however, things look different. Sri Lanka has been identified as the least-ageist country, characterized by a high level of respect for elders. Collectivist countries such as Japan, China, India and Brazil also have lower age bias – older citizens tend to be valued highly in such countries.
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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London for free
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Highlights in Britain’s capital that cost (almost) nothing | Marilyn Monroe turns 100 | What now? Ten years after the Brexit referendum
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Quiz
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The other football
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The ball is round? No! See how much you know about American football.
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© Image: Venus Major / Unsplash.com
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Splash!
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Time for a dip in the pool! Here’s some refreshing vocabulary for hot days.
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dip: hier: kurzes Bad
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