Hello, everyone. This is Damien from the LanguageCaster
team, and, I hope you're all doing well.
And welcome to our latest football phrase of
the week.
How did your team do at the weekend?
My favorite team, Tottenham,
finally won a game after a poor run
of form
when they defeated
bottom of the table Southampton
5 nil.
A heavy defeat like this is known as
a thumping
or a thrashing.
So we can say that Spurs
thrashed Southampton 5 nil.
This result
led Southampton to sack their manager.
And another word for sack, of course, is
fire, so to be fired.
They
fired Russell Martin, their manager,
after this heavy defeat.
We can say that he was sacked after
the defeat,
or he was sacked after the Tottenham defeat.
In other words, he was sacked because his
team were badly beaten.
And another phrase we sometimes use instead of
after is in the wake of.
So Russell Martin was sacked in the wake
of the thrashing by Spurs.
The word after is linking 2 parts or
clauses of the sentence.
Number 1, the team lost badly. And number
2, the manager was sacked.
He was sacked
after the defeat.
We could also use the word after at
the start of the sentence.
After the thrashing, the Southampton manager was sacked.
Wolves were the other Premier League club to
sack their manager after a bad defeat at
the weekend.
Wolves were beaten by fellow strugglers Ipswich
in the final minute of their match,
And this led to the club sacking Gary
O'Neil.
So in the BBC report,
we can read the headline,
Wolves sack manager O'Neil
after Ipswich defeat,
which means he lost his job
after wolves were beaten by Ipswich.
Wolves lost the game, and then afterwards, the
manager was sacked.
Of course, this phrase is not always followed
by defeat
as there are many other reasons that someone
might lose their job in football.
For example,
number 1. She was sacked after a poor
run of form.
Number 2,
he was fired after losing the dressing room.
And number 3, the manager was sacked after
criticizing the club owner.
Sometimes the word that follows after is not
related to a reason for the sake,
but instead describes other things such as the
amount of time involved.
So, for example, League 1 side Bristol Rovers
sacked Taylor
after a year in charge,
which means that he was the manager for
only a year.
But then the report goes on to state,
Bristol Rovers have sacked boss, Matt Taylor,
after their defeat by Birmingham.
Can you think of any other examples like
this?
And how would you say this expression in
another language that you know?
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I wonder, will there be any more managerial
casualties,
dismissals,
or sackings
before then.
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