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Old 16-02-2022, 00:35   #14
MikeA
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Re: 2021/22 Prediction League; Game 23 v Sheffield Wednesday (away)

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Originally Posted by Div3North View Post
But how do they learn all the names and draw them out of the memory banks in an instant? How do they avoid going, "Err ... thingamajig's got the ball on the far side, and he chips it towards whassisname in the corner who crosses it to the head of whassecalled, and it's a GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLL" ... and then, what about the difficult or sensitive names, or the unpronounceable ones, or especially the foreign ones that come out rude in English?

The question someone asked was, "Has a footballer’s name ever been deemed too offensive to broadcast?" (not that I know of).... and then there was the supplementary: “Have any players or team names ever been refused to be broadcast in another country as it would translate to an obscenity or offensive term?

For much of his career, Stefan Kuntz wasn’t a problem for TV stations in the UK because he played mostly in the Bundesliga in the 80s and 90s when their games weren’t shown on British TV. However, when he was selected in Germany’s Euro 96 squad, those matches were very much being shown in the UK. Commentators generally plumped for referring to him as Stefan Kunz – strategically leaving out the letter ‘t’..... And there was John Toshack, when managing Beşiktaş, who found himself the source of amusement when referred to as ‘Taşak’ – which sounds suspiciously like his name, but which actually is the Turkish word for 'testicle': that might, of course, be a load of b*ll*cks

Top of the list, though, was a neat bit of profanity-swerving in Portugal: broadcasters there had some trouble with Austria’s manager, Franco Foda, whose surname ("Foda") is Portuguese for ‘f*ck’. Throughout decades of his career, Portuguese broadcasters contorted his name into all sorts of unnatural positions – Foo-da, Fo-day, etc – to avoid offending listeners. In the Euros, the announcer gave up and conceded: ‘We’ll just call him Franco, OK?’

Good idea! And as a Brucie-bonus, you've all just learned how to say "f*ck" in Portuguese .....
How many remember this? Or is it just an urban myth? https://markgorman.wordpress.com/201...id-franceyism/


2-2 please
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