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  • World Cup kiss scandal.

  • The president of the Spanish Football Federation quits.

  • This is News Review from BBC Learning English. I'm Beth.

  • And I'm Phil.

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  • Now, the story.

  • Luis Rubiales, head of the Spanish football federation, has resigned.

  • He caused controversy after grabbing and kissing footballer Jenni Hermoso, without her consent, after the World Cup final last month.

  • His actions caused anger and a debate about sexism, especially as he refused to leave his job, until now.

  • You've been looking at the headlines, Phil. What's the vocabulary?

  • We have: fallout, a win and in wake of.

  • This is News Review from BBC Learning English.

  • Let's have a look at our first headline.

  • This is from ESPN: Spain federation president Rubiales resigns amid kiss fallout.

  • So, Luis Rubiales has resigned because of the kiss fallout and 'fallout' is the word that we're looking at here.

  • Now, Phil, if I fall over, or something falls, this is quite negative. Is there a connection here?

  • Well, fallout, it's a noun and it is negative.

  • We use it to talk about the negative result of something bad.

  • So, here we had the kiss, which is something bad, and the fallout to it is the negative reaction to it.

  • OK. Now, fallout often follows an adjective.

  • It was 'kiss' here in the headline, but we also often hear about political fallout or public fallout.

  • And fallout is also followed by 'over' quite often, so you might see a headline that says 'Fallout over political scandal'.

  • Yes. And you could also fall out with someone, and that is a phrasal verb and it means to have an argument or a disagreement with someone.

  • Yeah. Now, don't fall out with me, Phil, but I need to talk to you about something later.

  • OK, let's look at that again.

  • OK, I'm worried now.

  • Let's have our next headline.

  • This is from BBC News: Luis Rubiales resignation a win for Spain's women's team.

  • So, this headline describes the resignation as a win.

  • Now, Phil, I can win a card game, win a match, but that's a verb.

  • This is a noun. What is 'a win'?

  • OK, well, a win is a positive result, a victory. But not just in a sporting sense.

  • This was a positive result for the Spanish women's football team, but not on the pitch.

  • It wasn't a sporting victory, which of course, means this was quite a clever headline.

  • Exactly, yeah. There's a double meaning here so, of course, the Spanish team won the World Cup, but Rubiales resigning is seen as a win against sexism, so that is two wins.

  • Phil, have you had any wins recently?

  • Well, I did get a parking ticket the other week, which was really unfair.

  • I wrote to the council and they cancelled it, which was a win for me.

  • Yeah. That sounds really good. That's definitely a win.

  • Let's look at that again.

  • Next headline please.

  • This is from the Financial Times: Luis Rubiales resigns as Spanish football chief in wake of World Cup kiss.

  • Now, the language we're going to talk about is 'in wake of'.

  • Now, normally this is 'in the wake of' but we often remove 'the' in headlines.

  • Phil, can you explain what this is?

  • OK, so, if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and usually because of that something.

  • Right. So, here in this headline, it's saying that the football chief resigned after the World Cup kiss and because of the World Cup kiss.

  • Exactly. Now it's quite formal and it's often used in headlines.

  • You might see something like 'Security tightened in wake of World Cup final'.

  • Yeah. That's right.

  • OK, let's look at that again.

  • We've had: fall out - a negative result.

  • A win - a successful result.

  • In wake of - because of something recent.

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World Cup kiss scandal.

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