Name: Why everyone loves the underdog ⏲️ 6 Minute English（Why everyone loves the underdog ⏲️ 6 Minute English）
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The underdog in a situation is the person who seems least likely to win,

and plenty of hard work the underdog sometimes ends up the winner.

minor teams and sports people who play with courage

and end up beating the superstars and multi-million pound clubs.

But if you were given a choice between your team being the favourite

it's pretty obvious you'd want to be the favourite, right?

being the favourite gives the team confidence, but maybe the fact that

no-one expects the underdog to win is actually an advantage

which could help them to a surprise victory. In this programme,

and as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary, too.

Great. But first I have a question for you, Georgie.

One of the biggest underdog stories in sports history

happened in the 2015-16 English football season

when a little known club beat top clubs like Manchester City and Liverpool

overcoming odds of 5000-1 to win the Premier League,

but which club was it? a) Charlton Athletic

I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.

The English football Premier League is a good place to find underdogs.

Each season the three best clubs in their second league are promoted up

while the three weakest Premier League clubs are relegated down.

One club that knows all about relegation is Luton Town FC.

Luton Town were relegated entirely from the English league.

however, and they have now become the first English team to progress from non-league

Here's Luton fan, Alex, talking about his team's chances to BBC radio programme,

But some of these Elite Premier League clubs will look down their nose at us

and just think we shouldn't be there, and we are there on merit

and we've just gotta prove it this season.

So we are the underdog, certainly, financially, but on the pitch

some of the rich Premier League clubs will look down their noses at Luton.

If you look down your nose at someone, you think you're better than them.

But underdogs Luton have done better than expected,

even beating some of the big clubs like Newcastle United.

Is there something about being the underdog

that improves a team's chances of winning?

they've got high confidence because they've just come

so they've got the belief that they can do it.

it's just as important to look at the top dogs' performance

who everyone expects them to win they're playing the newly-promoted team.

who might be about to come up against Luton Town.

So, what we can see from that is what in psychology literature

when pressure gets to an individual or a team and they underperform.

Clubs newly promoted to the Premier League are used to winning

and start the season confidently. On the flip side,

they have to play much stronger teams than before. The phrase 'on the flip side'

is used to show the opposite, less positive side of something.

Of course it's not just the underdog playing, there are also top dogs,

the most successful or powerful person or team.

and this gives them freedom to relax and play naturally.

Top dogs, on the other hand, experience a lot of expectation,

a sports term which describes the failure of a player to perform

their best because of psychological pressure or social expectation.

Choking causes teams and players to underperform,

to perform worse than expected. It is also true that neutral fans -

people watching a match when their team isn't playing

I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil.

You asked me about the famous Premiere League winning underdogs

I'm afraid, Georgie. In fact, it was Leicester City, nicknamed

the foxes, who became the unexpected champions of the Premier League.

we've learned from this programme about the underdog,

the person in a competition or situation who seems least likely to win.

If you look down your nose at someone, you think you are superior to them.

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Why everyone loves the underdog ⏲️ 6 Minute English（Why everyone loves the underdog ⏲️ 6 Minute English）

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