Players names and the friggin daft ways we say them.

This stems from the Coates rumour....just for the ****ing stupid way his name sounds i'm out.

Coates..really should sounds like coats, nowt more, not ko-at-ease.

ffs we can't even get Wickham right. it goes from wick-am, to whick um.

Not even gonna start with PVA.

Mannone.....man-only, man-on knee..?


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down the line there was the likes of Thierry Henry, really wtf? Tee airy henry sounds ok, but na, they had to gan and make it, Tee-airy Hon weeee.


Any other names grip ya ****e?

 

Sick to the back teeth of hearing or reading the name borini

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But it's boring-knee.

 

Oddly enough Coates is coats, his old man is Scottish I believe. A lot make it sound Spanish/South American but I'm sure it's not supposed to be.

I grew up in a partially Flemish speaking community so PVA rolls off the tongue. It was partially Flemish, partially French so Thierry Henry also seems right to me.

Man Oh Nay is how I say Mannone, not sure if that's right.

It's the Eastern European lads who leave me tongue tied. The lad Atletico just signed from Bayern... You what? I can spell it or say it.

 

Thought it was bore-ini?

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Koa-tzi was a ninja knight in 14th century Kyoto.

Everyone knows this, but it's never mentioned 'cos he was never seen.

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david ginola - is what it is

Darvide jjinooalla - it is not

 

Geoffrey Bouycoutt

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Dar-vid...just wtf?


Haha, yet another one of my totally pointless, nonesense threads But seriously wtf happens to these names?

 

I do believe you are correct with the Coates pronunciation, was just a daft commentator trying to make it sound foreign and everyones said it the same since

 

Its bi-ern. Like when Ernie Wise slept with Eric Moracambe

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Humour that doesn't cross the generations I'm afraid mate.

 

I got it after several readings....

 

Don't get me wrong, I get it. I just didn't find it funny. Had I asked how to pronounce Bayern it might have felt less forced.

 

Mr Disco,

no offence intennded.

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None taken Bobby!

 

I don't know which commentator it was but it got on my tits when they pronounced Jagielka as Yagielka. He's an English lad whose nickname is Jags, no need to ponce it up.

I heard both Gary Neville and Dwight Yorke pronounce Van Gaal as Van Garl when it's actually Van Harl but with a bit of a noise like you're coughing up some spit on the H. It's definitely not Garl and considering how far Yorke and Neville's noses are up the rectum of Man Utd I'm surprised they haven't bothered to get it right.

Having said that, is it Poyett or Poyay? I've always said Poyett, he's Uraguayan not French, but a lot of pundits say Poyay.