Getting a bit pissed off with (mainly) Premier league managers avoiding questions by using poor English to garbled there way through an interview.
Mourino seem to start it but Peppy and Clipperty Kopp seem to have perfected it.
It was never like this in Cloughys day young man.

Its a bit like a foreign criminal replying to a Policeman.
Me no speak English.
Or a politician who who wont give a direct answer to a question they dont like.

always wondered if those foreign accents were actually put on a bit by those foreign managers. its not as if they have just arrived in the country with a few words of english. mixing with english speakers day in day out must surely help them lose their old accents to develop new ones. ex man.u manager comes to mind.

I hindsight I think it was our illustrious prime minister who started it.
Windbaggery at its finest.

I've been impressed by the English spoken by yer average Ukrainian. Much clearer than yer average Brummie.

Apparently they all listen to the Archers rather than watching Peaky Blinders or Eastenders.

Apparently they all listen to the Archers rather than watching Peaky Blinders or Eastenders.[/quote

OOOOOOOHH AAAAAARRRRRR

well you can listen to the archers without putting up the sound to hear peaky blinders mumbling through a hour. when kids speak like that they are told to speak up but it seems ok now for rich actors to do it.

Steve MacLaren proved that living in a foreign country affects your accent and you can perfect the local dialect quite quickly as he did with his Dutch accent

Never affected his hair ‘style’.

Depends on the individual. On trips to Australia I've met expats who still sound broad Yorkshire or whatever after living there 20-30 years, and others who talk Strine like a native after a year or two. A lot of the time it depends on how keen people are to 'fit in.'

Or who they mix with. Kids have no option so thats why they pick up new accents quicker. Know myself after years of working away i do tend to mate up with anyone from the north east that i have worked with. Funny how there seems to be always somebody about.

The North East aswell as Aberdeen and Liverpool have the biggest migration of foreign expats / workers i come across in my current field of work. We and the aforementioned are everywhere. Ive been in the middle of no where waiting for a bus at the most ungodly hour and low and behold a fellow Teessider / Geordie was there. Ive been at corporate events and guest speakers from the north east appear aswell as comedians etc and its those guys i always find myself with at the end of the night at the bar talking about Pools. On the plus side a dont think there has been a situation where a fellow brit when asked where i am from hasnt known about the monkey and our Napoleonic heritage.
but most ive met have tended to keep their local accent in tune.

You can thank the loids for that.

As Darwin wrote ’...... the missing link between mankind and chimpanzee was lost when he was unfortunate enough to be mistaken for a French spy and executed, which set back human evolution in the hamlet of Darlington thousands of years.....’
Quoted from ‘Planet of the Loids’, by Dave Darwin.