英语听力精选进阶版 13239（在线收听）

Italian footballers arrested in betting scandal

Vocabulary

to cast a shadow over

to make something look bad or less impressive

diminutive

very small

looking into

investigating

betting scam

illegal or dishonest scheme for making money, based around betting on sports (here, football games)

household names

people who are very famous, and well known by people

wrongdoing

acting in a bad or illegal way

match-fixing

illegal scheme which involves criminals paying footballers to make sure a game ends in a particular way (e.g. one team loses)

betting syndicate

group of people who work together to gain money by betting on sports

spiked

drugged

relegated

here, moved down from one football league to the one below it