| One Last Football Related Thought |
[May. 12th, 2008|08:27 am] |
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To: The Premiership Announcing Staff At Sky Sports
Re: American Goalkeeper Tim Howard
Dear Sirs,
Yes, Everton's star 'Keeper, Tim Howard, is an American. For that matter, 20% of the starting goalkeepers in the Premiership this past season were born in the United States. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, you seem incapable of mentioning the man in any other words than "American Goalkeeper Tim Howard," as if that were his entire name. I've checked and it isn't.
Given the relative paucity of actual English goalkeepers in the Prem, I thought perhaps this was being done to distinguish foreign-born talent from your native sons, in case Mr. Capello was watching and inadvertantly tried to name young Schmeichel to the national team. But I haven't noticed you saying "Czech Goalkeeper Petr Cech," or "Spanish Goalkeeper Pepe Reyna," nor do you actually say "American Goalkeeper Brad Friedel" for that matter, so clearly this is a localized aberration. At any rate, you can drop it.
Yrs Truly,
T. F. Bretz
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Yeah, in the NBA we don't say 'British basketballer so-and-so'....oh wait, there aren't any British basketballers in the NBA.
We must therefore conclude that all tall Britons are irredeemably clumsy.
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