Watford balls: insulting Walter Mazzarri in English is easy
On Twitter, Daily Mirror football writer John Cross is having a pop at Watford FC’s Italian manager of the moment Walter Mazzarri, a man he calls “an insult to the Premier League”. How so? Cross explains: “He has been in England for a year and not bothered to learn English. Really poor.”
You’d suppose the internationalist, hyped and gilded Premier League, with its oligarch owners, absurd wages and massive dividends would possess a pretty thick skin and be largely unaffected by one man’s struggles with the English language.
And there was this from February 1 2017:
Walter Mazzarri returns to familiar surroundings as Watford look for Manchester United scalp – Watford boss Mazzarri spent four months immersing himself in English culture
The story appeared in the, er, Daily Mirror. Mazzarri said:
“I know Manchester very well – I used to walk around the city a lot. When I go back, I can’t really call it my home… but almost. For three or four months last year, before I came to Watford, I travelled back and forth between Italy and the UK.
“I stayed in Manchester and I enjoyed it very much – it gave me an understanding of life in Britain because, from a personal perspective, I wanted to understand the culture.
“I chose Manchester because it is not as cosmopolitan as London, which helped me to settle in the environment of life in England faster…
“It would have been completely different if I had lived in London because it is full of Italians and I would have been stopped in the street more often than in Manchester.”
What an insult, eh.
PS – Given the number of foreigners in the Premier League and the power of the Champions’ League, British journalists could learn another language?
Posted: 17th, May 2017 | In: Sports, Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
