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Amazing hybrid accents in football
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- Jan 2015
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- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
Danes seem particularly prone to this - Peter Schmeichel, Brian Laudrup, Jan Molby...
Then there's those players who go one stage further and go almost completely native - Hector Bellerin is 99% typical young Londoner at this point.
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- Jul 2016
- 9390
- Dublin
- Bohemian FC Manchester United Mansfield town Torino Berwick rangers
- Chocolate Digestives
My brother met Ronnie Whelan on a charity walk,if you know Ronnie his accent is probably 70% scouser and 30% Dublin, they are around the same age and it turned out that they knew a lot of the same people so by the time they were reminiscing in the pub Ronnies wife said she could barely understand him,he'd regressed to his Dublin accent.
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When he was Ebbsfleet manager and interviewed on Radio Kent, I was always fascinated by the accent of Daryl McMahon, who sounded exactly like someone who'd spent half his life in Dublin and half his life in south-east London.
The only clip I can find is this one which is a few years old and he hadn't quite perfected it yet.
I say this as someone with a ridiculous hybrid accent myself, in my case Chathamese-Berlinerisch.Eastleigh FC Captain Daryl McMahon's post match interview after Eastleigh's first win of the 2012/13 Season. Daryl discusses his teams performance and upcomi...
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Roberto Martinez was pretty funny during his season at Motherwell - his Spanish accent had picked up a slight Lancs twang during his 6 years at Wigan anyway, and then when he got to Scotland and started using words like "wee" and "rammy", you could see interviewers with a proper 'wtf?' look on their faces.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostI'm terrible for this (subconsciously parroting accents). I spent a week at our offices in Longbenton last year and my wife said I came back talking like Ant and Dec.
Although I get the examples in this thread, they seem to rely on the weird assumption that there's a 'neutral' accent for English (I guess RP or some generic transatlantic twang) that foreigners are expected to adopt. My French accent with Teesside (and occasional Scot) vowels is no more hybrid than French/London or French/Californian valleys would be, even if it's less common.
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