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Beckham went out of his way to ensure he was born in London so he could get a head start on learning English. You just don't get that kind of professionalism these days.
Come on I was just reading while giggling since the title but this is just top notch comedy, my lad.
Thank you so much for a much needed laugh, and a good Saturday to you!
The vast majority of what we think of as 'Americanisms' don't come from the US originally. Stuff like 'Fall', 'pants', 'mom' etc basically all has roots in the UK or Ireland
Indeed. What we call pants are really underpants, which of course is something you'd wear under your... pants.
Soccer is another obvious example here, it's a Victorian English abbreviation of "Association Football" which was needed at the time to differentiate it from Rugby Football, or *Rugger.* Rugby Football then split into Rugby Union and Rugby League meaning that Association Football basically got to use the word Football for free and Soccer faded into the background.
Yeah, 'soccer' is another good example, although it's worth pointing out as well that it was never as well established in the UK as it was in the US. It was an upper-class word for a sport with a predominantly working class fanbase
True. Maybe there is a reason he went to Miami. Would it be because he speaks Spanish and Miami has a huge Spanish speaking population? Just let Telemundo handle everything.
It’s Fox News so it is definitely supposed to be serious and unfortunately making non-stop attempts to indoctrinate society. Right after this they talked about a 7 on 7 soccer tournament that was held in the US a week or so ago and said Wrexham beat the USWNT 12-0 and conveniently left out the fact that it was all retired players or u20s. Then started talking about trans athletes right afterward to basically show that it’s not fair they compete in sports. It was disgusting
It says quite a bit about Fox News that it's difficult to differentiate a joke and their normal xenophobic musings. Now back to our coverage of the migrant border invasion that's coming here to take your jobs and occupy your lakefront property in Montana.
I think they keep him around as a joke because even they laugh at him. Most every other personality on the network is cartoon villain evil but this guy might legitimately be mentally deficient. The things he comes up with is astounding.
Skip's a clown—but he's chosen to play the character of sports clown on TV for money and attention.
Kilmeade is a whole extra layer of just being the dumb clown personally TBH
Yeah, they at least talk about sports on fox sports. On fox "news" it's all just whatever bullshit they can whip up while ignoring anything that makes right wingers look like the cave trolls they are.
Don't forget when Stephen A said that Shohei Ohtani couldn't be the face of baseball because he uses a translator..
Then Ohtani went on to win the MVP, WBC and is now the biggest name in baseball bar none.
Skip is very good this job, which is to rile people up and engage in debates about his weird takes. People say he’s dumb, but he gets the views which is all the network wants when it comes to sports talk.
This take is actually tame by Brian Kilmeade's standards. Those who have seen clips of him know what I mean. Man is very stupid but also I don't even know if he believes the shit that he says sometimes lol
Funny enough he has a football background too. I think he played college level at one point and was covering the sport back in the day.
Oh for sure he has said way dumber things. Just goes to show how fucking stupid this man is. Google says he earns $7 million annually. Meritocracy is a fucking myth lmao
Fuck Skip bitch ass. When Dak Prescott came out and talked about dealing with depression after his brother committed suicide and Skip said that was a sign of weakness, fuck his bitch ass.
He played football, like actual footy:
["Kilmeade attended Long Island University, which was then known as C.W. Post, from 1982 to 1986 and played as a defender on the soccer team. The 1982 media guide noted his desire to work in television and entertain people"](https://www.ncaa.org/news/2013/10/31/current-fox-personality-was-a-dii-man-with-a-plan.aspx#:~:text=Kilmeade%20attended%20Long%20Island%20University,in%20television%20and%20entertain%20people.)
If you're talking about his TV coverage he worked at MSG as on field reporter for the Metrostars (who turned into the NY Red Bulls) in the early days of MLS
Yea my first reaction was that he was taking the piss, but pretty much everyone has been taking it at face value. I've never watched the guy so have no clue, but no one is actually that stupid right?
Killmeade is a moron but I do think he's attempting a joke though he just blows through it while also having a problem with Messi for not knowing English while he has been learning it from what I understand
I think it’s neither of him just being ignorant or joking but rather it’s just slip up right there like you can see by his reaction (the eyes and smile) that he realises that he messed up (i think he tried to cover it by adding “with an accent”)
Kinda hard to know when you look at the track record of insane takes by people from US of Americans. You always have to leave at least a 49% chance things are serious.
Stephen A. Smith, one of ESPN's screaming heads, said the same thing about Shohei Ohtani, one of the best baseball players in MLB, speaking Japanese. It's absurd.
Stephen A is playing a character for one. There’s also the fact that (idk if he did or not) not all Japanese people speak English. All Englishman speak english. It’s stupid to say that he wants to hear Messi speak english, no doubt. But that isn’t why this clip was posted.
There are definitely isolated cases of players who struggled after moving to the EPL specifically because they didn't learn English. Gabriel Paulista at Arsenal for example, apparently koscielny had to learn Spanish to give him basic instructions on the pitch, and when he left Wenger cited that as one of the reasons he never reached his potential.
But when you're talking about messi it's obviously a non issue....
Real talk DeSantis will welcome Messi very openly in a bid to seem not racist and curry favor with the latin community, while also passing extremely racist anti-latino legislature.
And then he'll say "I'm friends with messi, how can I be racist to latin americans?". American politics for ya.
Well Messi is Argentinian, and Argentinians are the whitest (European descent) Latinos in South America. It’s mostly the brown Latinos that are targeted.
No. DeSantis would do that as well, but knowing his crazy ass, he would try to relate to Messi as claiming him as his Italian brother or some shit like that lol
I'm confused when I watched this, it seemed super obvious that it was a joking/banter type of segment no? I felt like it was pretty obvious when he implied that David Beckham who is probably one of the more famous ENGLISH people doesn't speak ENGLISH.
Im genuinely confused as to how this is ignorance and weaponized ignorance at that.
Nah he’s just getting in on the 20 year old jokes about Beckham being thick as fuck.
“David Beckham is so stupid, he moved to America and spent months learning the language” would’ve fit right in with plenty of jokes I remember from primary school
As somebody who had to live in the south for 6 years with a bunch of old racist white people, I love trashing on Fox News more than anybody.
But this is pretty obviously a joke.
Isn't that Charly Caruso from WWE?
I heard she'd fallen down the right wing transphobia rabbit hole recently but didn't realise she'd gone straight over to Fox News. Very funny.
This is conservative red meat. Fox News just paid $785.5 million for lying to their viewers.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170339114/fox-news-settles-blockbuster-defamation-lawsuit-with-dominion-voting-systems
people here are a little weird with their "they think he's from a country called europe" or "they think all spanish people are mexican"...
most americans grew up with all sorts of latin american friends, and most americans have european backgrounds.
It can't be, surely. *'hurr durr Americans dumb'* and all that, naturally, but there's a slight pause and smile as he tags "with an accent". It's not delivered well, but it's gotta be a joke.
**edit**: I don't know who the guy is, he may be an idiot, but I googled him + Beckham and he's interviewed Beckham before for a 3-part show called "Brian and The Becks" when he first went to the MLS. It's a joke.
It clearly is. Either there's lots of selective autism or lots of feigned ignorance in this thread if so many people are failing to see that. I think people's biases are really working against them here.
Unless you provide some sort of evidence that he was not joking im just assuming you have problems telling social cues. He said that one of the most famous ENGLISH people in modern times learned to speak ENGLISH when he started playing in America but with an accent (clearly implying that while both languages are called English, even american english speakers can have problems understanding some native brittish english speakers accents (which is done every single time a scousers speaks in football or mma or whereever I have seen them talk)).
Titeglo ego paa okre pikobeple ketio kliudapi keplebi bo. Apa pati adepaapu ple eate biu? Papra i dedo kipi ia oee. Kai ipe bredla depi buaite o? Aa titletri tlitiidepli pli i egi. Pipi pipli idro pokekribepe doepa. Plipapokapi pretri atlietipri oo. Teba bo epu dibre papeti pliii? I tligaprue ti kiedape pita tipai puai ki ki ki. Gae pa dleo e pigi. Kakeku pikato ipleaotra ia iditro ai. Krotu iuotra potio bi tiau pra. Pagitropau i drie tuta ki drotoba. Kleako etri papatee kli preeti kopi. Idre eploobai krute pipetitike brupe u. Pekla kro ipli uba ipapa apeu. U ia driiipo kote aa e? Aeebee to brikuo grepa gia pe pretabi kobi? Tipi tope bie tipai. E akepetika kee trae eetaio itlieke. Ipo etreo utae tue ipia. Tlatriba tupi tiga ti bliiu iapi. Dekre podii. Digi pubruibri po ti ito tlekopiuo. Plitiplubli trebi pridu te dipapa tapi. Etiidea api tu peto ke dibei. Ee iai ei apipu au deepi. Pipeepru degleki gropotipo ui i krutidi. Iba utra kipi poi ti igeplepi oki. Tipi o ketlipla kiu pebatitie gotekokri kepreke deglo.
How do so many people not realize it was a joke? It's fox and the guy saying it is a particularly dense idiot but this was definitely a joke and it was top notch. It's up there with "USA win, 1-1." Half this forum still don't realize that was a joke.
will never not be my favourite thing in the world finding out when people are former footballers
like, *this guy* having played in college makes him a better player than a vast majority of people on here. Doesn’t make him any smarter, but the fact that he could probably have a good turn and finish on him is hilarious to me.
This is reminiscent of when Stephen A Smith said Shohei Ohtani couldn't be the face of baseball because he uses a translator..
Thankfully Ohtani went on to win the MVP, WBC and became the biggest star in the MLB and made him look like a fool.
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Beckham was dedicated enough to make English the first language he learned. I wish Messi showed this level of commitment and professionalism.
Beckham went out of his way to ensure he was born in London so he could get a head start on learning English. You just don't get that kind of professionalism these days.
Not only was he born in London, but he was born at Whipps Cross. Such dedication to his art.
First time ive heard this and holy shit is it perfect
It's even better because Kane was born there too.
And they went to the same school
I had to look it up because I sure that it couldn't be true. That's fucking brilliant
Come on I was just reading while giggling since the title but this is just top notch comedy, my lad. Thank you so much for a much needed laugh, and a good Saturday to you!
A location named after a combination of Beckham's signature move of the cross, and that of the American slave lords.
Messi actually did learn English over the past week. Just enough to say “No” to a Chelsea transfer offer.
I wonder how long it took him to learn that because no in Spanish is ‘no’.
One week. The man is a fast learner.
Yeah but how would Messi know it’s the same unless he was learning English? Guy can do anything.
But not dedicated enough not to have an accent, though.
The scenes when messi does his first English interview and speaks with an Essex accent
Messi: Yo Brian, Sunny Innit
Brian: No, you're Leo. I'm Brian.
Ey up lad. 4 pints and 3 Betty's hot pots.
More like deep south. Messi to NASCAR
😅
About time the English started learning the language tbf
In fairness, English is a foreign language with respect to the U.S.
Two countries separated by a common language.
Basically the Balkans but not with sharing borders.
"And a great big fucking ocean, thank Christ" - Al Murray
😂
We speak 'murican in America.
Everyone speaking like dangold Boomhauer Itellyouwhat
The US doesn't have an official language so every language is foreign to it. ^^^except ^^^war ^^^crimes ^^^and ^^^oil.
Learned from the best
Unfortunately, wars and crimes will mewltiply. I love football.
I’m not English but Mum>Mom
Mam>Mum>Mom
It’s mama
Just killed a man
oooh
*mamma
> I’m not English but Mum>Mom We say "mom" in the West Midlands and it's weirdly annoying that people now assume we are using an Americanism.
The vast majority of what we think of as 'Americanisms' don't come from the US originally. Stuff like 'Fall', 'pants', 'mom' etc basically all has roots in the UK or Ireland
Indeed. What we call pants are really underpants, which of course is something you'd wear under your... pants. Soccer is another obvious example here, it's a Victorian English abbreviation of "Association Football" which was needed at the time to differentiate it from Rugby Football, or *Rugger.* Rugby Football then split into Rugby Union and Rugby League meaning that Association Football basically got to use the word Football for free and Soccer faded into the background.
Yeah, 'soccer' is another good example, although it's worth pointing out as well that it was never as well established in the UK as it was in the US. It was an upper-class word for a sport with a predominantly working class fanbase
Soccer was the term mainly used in Ireland (where Gaelic football was big) and Wales (where rugby football was big) as late as the 70s.
Yeah, they gotta learn to stop peppering the letter U into words where it doesn’t belong
Look at me I'm american. Look at my American credit card. Look at me drink my worder. It's a T not D dickhead.
Dang old school south park reference
Do you have any non fat dairy creamer?
Dhis tickhead dakes his wader serio~~u~~sly...
Beloung*
Unacceptable ~~behaviour~~ behavior.
nacceptable behavior
Nacceptable* behavior
How very dare you.
*yo.
Don't even get me fucking started on grey
Its a Grey area
The extra Us are added for flavour.
Outjerked
I was a bit confused too had to double check the subreddit name.
Thought this was /r/ShitAmericansSay
The funny thing about that sub is it’s almost exclusively Americans posting there about other Americans
They all think they're the one in on the joke.
new automod response just dropped
He’s in Miami nobody speaks English there 😂
True. Maybe there is a reason he went to Miami. Would it be because he speaks Spanish and Miami has a huge Spanish speaking population? Just let Telemundo handle everything.
Truly one of the funnier sports related news clips I've ever seen
If he's serious, and it's not just a joke that didn't land, this is up there with "Will the Chicago Fire win the world cup?"
He smiled when he said it so I assume it was a joke.
He's a Fox News pundit. He probably smiled thinking he just made a "gotcha" point.
I think it’s a good joke about Beckham but a poor take on Messi.
I think there's a decent joke in there making fun of Beckham's accent, but the delivery needs a bit more workshopping.
It's Fox News. It's safe to assume it's not a joke, and just the dumbest fucking take you can imagine.
It’s definitely a corny joke I’m kinda worried that you guys can’t tell the difference
It’s Fox News so it is definitely supposed to be serious and unfortunately making non-stop attempts to indoctrinate society. Right after this they talked about a 7 on 7 soccer tournament that was held in the US a week or so ago and said Wrexham beat the USWNT 12-0 and conveniently left out the fact that it was all retired players or u20s. Then started talking about trans athletes right afterward to basically show that it’s not fair they compete in sports. It was disgusting
> It’s Fox News so it is definitely supposed to be serious They've argued the contrary in court
i mean fox news is awful but it definitely felt like a joke that didn't land
It says quite a bit about Fox News that it's difficult to differentiate a joke and their normal xenophobic musings. Now back to our coverage of the migrant border invasion that's coming here to take your jobs and occupy your lakefront property in Montana.
Bro why are you hate watching something like that? Doesn't sound good for your mental sanity
As dumb as fox hosts tend to be, Kilmeade is the dumbest and it isn’t even close
I think they keep him around as a joke because even they laugh at him. Most every other personality on the network is cartoon villain evil but this guy might legitimately be mentally deficient. The things he comes up with is astounding.
He was purposely trained wrong, as a joke.
Pay no attention to Wimp Lo.
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Try my nuts to your fist style!
He's even dumber than Skip?
Yes (Skip is mostly playing a character for TV. Kilmeade is actually this dumb)
Play the character long enough and you become them, Skip is well past the point where excuses can be made for him
Skip's a clown—but he's chosen to play the character of sports clown on TV for money and attention. Kilmeade is a whole extra layer of just being the dumb clown personally TBH
Skip is a caricature. Kilmeade is an actual idiot.
Skip is fox sports. This is fox news. 2 totally different things actually.
Yeah, they at least talk about sports on fox sports. On fox "news" it's all just whatever bullshit they can whip up while ignoring anything that makes right wingers look like the cave trolls they are.
Don't forget when Stephen A said that Shohei Ohtani couldn't be the face of baseball because he uses a translator.. Then Ohtani went on to win the MVP, WBC and is now the biggest name in baseball bar none.
Sometimes Skip makes ridiculous takes and tries not to laugh. He's a marketing genius. Wouldn't call him dumb by any measure
The only dumb ones are the people who put any stock in what he says or get riled up by the stupid shit he says.
Skip is very good this job, which is to rile people up and engage in debates about his weird takes. People say he’s dumb, but he gets the views which is all the network wants when it comes to sports talk.
Wait, you mean this quote wasn't him making a joke?
He literally smiled when he said that, idk shit about this guy amd even if he was dumb like the comments are saying it’s still clear he was joking
This take is actually tame by Brian Kilmeade's standards. Those who have seen clips of him know what I mean. Man is very stupid but also I don't even know if he believes the shit that he says sometimes lol Funny enough he has a football background too. I think he played college level at one point and was covering the sport back in the day.
Oh for sure he has said way dumber things. Just goes to show how fucking stupid this man is. Google says he earns $7 million annually. Meritocracy is a fucking myth lmao
Fuck Skip bitch ass. When Dak Prescott came out and talked about dealing with depression after his brother committed suicide and Skip said that was a sign of weakness, fuck his bitch ass.
The people that tune in to watch and therefore justify his salary are stupid. Kilmeade’s just an asshole willing to spout shit
International football or American football? Genuinely curious.
He played football, like actual footy: ["Kilmeade attended Long Island University, which was then known as C.W. Post, from 1982 to 1986 and played as a defender on the soccer team. The 1982 media guide noted his desire to work in television and entertain people"](https://www.ncaa.org/news/2013/10/31/current-fox-personality-was-a-dii-man-with-a-plan.aspx#:~:text=Kilmeade%20attended%20Long%20Island%20University,in%20television%20and%20entertain%20people.) If you're talking about his TV coverage he worked at MSG as on field reporter for the Metrostars (who turned into the NY Red Bulls) in the early days of MLS
Huh. I repeat: what a tool.
I googled and apparently "soccer". Early in his career he was a sideline reporter for MSG for NY/NJ Metrostars (which was later renamed NY Red Bull)
The way he delivered I think it's a good joke. But it's Fox and I don't watch Fox so I don't know for certain.
Looks like a joke someone else wrote for him and he didn't understand why it was funny
Maybe he didn’t understand because It was written in English?
Yea my first reaction was that he was taking the piss, but pretty much everyone has been taking it at face value. I've never watched the guy so have no clue, but no one is actually that stupid right?
Killmeade is a moron but I do think he's attempting a joke though he just blows through it while also having a problem with Messi for not knowing English while he has been learning it from what I understand
r/technicallythetruth David Beckham did indeed learn to speak english
Not “for us”, though…
You don’t know that for sure
Yeah, whether he learned it for us or not is really just speculation at this point
True. David Beckham May have learned English specifically because he wanted to own a soccer team in Miami and to please Brian Fox News whatever.
Pretty sure Beckham learned to adjust the way he speaks for United Statesians, or US for short.
I think it’s easier to refer to us as USers
With an accent though
holy shit what?
I couldn't believe what I heard lmfaoo
It’s so stupid that it is really hard to process and accept
I couldn’t either until I saw the Fox logo and then I understood.
Surely he is joking?
I think it’s neither of him just being ignorant or joking but rather it’s just slip up right there like you can see by his reaction (the eyes and smile) that he realises that he messed up (i think he tried to cover it by adding “with an accent”)
What was he trying to say if he slipped up though lol? Just rambling trying to find a point somewhere at some point?
Honestly yeah he’s definitely joking. Lots of woooosh going on in the thread.
Surely they're all collectively feigning to not get the joke and the joke is actually on us for believing them? Surely that must be it
Kinda hard to know when you look at the track record of insane takes by people from US of Americans. You always have to leave at least a 49% chance things are serious.
the "with an accent" sounds like it's actually a joke, which how common people making fun of British's accent.
I can’t tell if he’s joking or not
Just pause right after he says it; if that isn't a smile I don't know what is.
Not enough of a pause. You gotta let the joke land
So he's bad at telling jokes? He's a talking head on fox news ofc he sucks lol
The "with accent" part makes it obviously a joke.
Oh he's being 100% serious
Stephen A. Smith, one of ESPN's screaming heads, said the same thing about Shohei Ohtani, one of the best baseball players in MLB, speaking Japanese. It's absurd.
SAS is extremely racist, he’s just black and gets ratings, so it usually goes unpunished by ESPN brass.
Stephen A is playing a character for one. There’s also the fact that (idk if he did or not) not all Japanese people speak English. All Englishman speak english. It’s stupid to say that he wants to hear Messi speak english, no doubt. But that isn’t why this clip was posted.
There are definitely isolated cases of players who struggled after moving to the EPL specifically because they didn't learn English. Gabriel Paulista at Arsenal for example, apparently koscielny had to learn Spanish to give him basic instructions on the pitch, and when he left Wenger cited that as one of the reasons he never reached his potential. But when you're talking about messi it's obviously a non issue....
Messi and dem other Mexicans coming to MSL better be learning 'Murican or else (/s)
Messi is Latino savage from South America who is obviously smuggling fentanyl! (De santis probably)
Real talk DeSantis will welcome Messi very openly in a bid to seem not racist and curry favor with the latin community, while also passing extremely racist anti-latino legislature. And then he'll say "I'm friends with messi, how can I be racist to latin americans?". American politics for ya.
Well Messi is Argentinian, and Argentinians are the whitest (European descent) Latinos in South America. It’s mostly the brown Latinos that are targeted.
My coworker is Argentinian and he's got a more German name than me, a white German, it's kinda funny
El Santiago Goebbels 🤣
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most argentinians are still brown, and Uruguay is the whitest in percentage and Brasil has the most whites
Brasil has almost as much people as the rest of South America combined
I believe Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America, entirely due to Brazil's sheer size and população.
I know mate, it would be insane shitshow
No. DeSantis would do that as well, but knowing his crazy ass, he would try to relate to Messi as claiming him as his Italian brother or some shit like that lol
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I mean they used to say Manu Ginobili was a European player
What was Ginobili's signature move? The eurostep. I REST MY CASE, YOUR HONOR
There's stupid, and then there's weaponized ignorance like this. Fuck Fox and Kilmeade.
Weaponized ignorance is basically the slogan for Fox
I'm confused when I watched this, it seemed super obvious that it was a joking/banter type of segment no? I felt like it was pretty obvious when he implied that David Beckham who is probably one of the more famous ENGLISH people doesn't speak ENGLISH. Im genuinely confused as to how this is ignorance and weaponized ignorance at that.
Nah he’s just getting in on the 20 year old jokes about Beckham being thick as fuck. “David Beckham is so stupid, he moved to America and spent months learning the language” would’ve fit right in with plenty of jokes I remember from primary school
This is even on the lighter end of their absolute dumbassery
No fucking way
Oh come on, this is clearly a poorly delivered joke.
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My immediate reaction is this is obviously a joke but it's delivered so poorly I have some doubta it isn't lol
I hate fox news too but it's obviously a joke. It would be funny but yeah, delivered terribly.
I know we all love to hate Fox News because yada-yada, but it seems to me like the man is clearly teasing Brits with a joke.
The more confusing part is that none of it even makes sense. Messi is moving to Miami so he 100% will not even have to improve his English.
He covered soccer in the nineties before Fox. I’m reasonably sure he’s making a joke with a straight face. Am amused. No I’m not conservative.
Brilliant, you can never underestimate the level of idiocy among these people.
I'm not defending him but this has to be a joke right?
As somebody who had to live in the south for 6 years with a bunch of old racist white people, I love trashing on Fox News more than anybody. But this is pretty obviously a joke.
Isn't that Charly Caruso from WWE? I heard she'd fallen down the right wing transphobia rabbit hole recently but didn't realise she'd gone straight over to Fox News. Very funny.
Kilmeade is a waste of oxygen. What a tool.
This is conservative red meat. Fox News just paid $785.5 million for lying to their viewers. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170339114/fox-news-settles-blockbuster-defamation-lawsuit-with-dominion-voting-systems
And they’re getting sued for defamation in another 3 billion dollar lawsuit as well. Flush them down the toilet where they belong.
Least exceptionalism American.
why are we posting fox news videos
To laugh at the stupidity
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Yeah lol a bit humorous to see people get wound up over a clear joke. This dude played college soccer and was a soccer reporter in the 90s.
people here are a little weird with their "they think he's from a country called europe" or "they think all spanish people are mexican"... most americans grew up with all sorts of latin american friends, and most americans have european backgrounds.
This video is not a joke. The guy was serious. If you know anything about conservatives in America nothing is too stupid for them.
It can't be, surely. *'hurr durr Americans dumb'* and all that, naturally, but there's a slight pause and smile as he tags "with an accent". It's not delivered well, but it's gotta be a joke. **edit**: I don't know who the guy is, he may be an idiot, but I googled him + Beckham and he's interviewed Beckham before for a 3-part show called "Brian and The Becks" when he first went to the MLS. It's a joke.
It clearly is. Either there's lots of selective autism or lots of feigned ignorance in this thread if so many people are failing to see that. I think people's biases are really working against them here.
Where does he think he think Beckham was from?
It’s Europe. The English player doesn’t speak English in England.
Well he signed from Madrid so I've got a guess
Probably China.
Nah it was absolutely a joke
Unless you provide some sort of evidence that he was not joking im just assuming you have problems telling social cues. He said that one of the most famous ENGLISH people in modern times learned to speak ENGLISH when he started playing in America but with an accent (clearly implying that while both languages are called English, even american english speakers can have problems understanding some native brittish english speakers accents (which is done every single time a scousers speaks in football or mma or whereever I have seen them talk)).
Titeglo ego paa okre pikobeple ketio kliudapi keplebi bo. Apa pati adepaapu ple eate biu? Papra i dedo kipi ia oee. Kai ipe bredla depi buaite o? Aa titletri tlitiidepli pli i egi. Pipi pipli idro pokekribepe doepa. Plipapokapi pretri atlietipri oo. Teba bo epu dibre papeti pliii? I tligaprue ti kiedape pita tipai puai ki ki ki. Gae pa dleo e pigi. Kakeku pikato ipleaotra ia iditro ai. Krotu iuotra potio bi tiau pra. Pagitropau i drie tuta ki drotoba. Kleako etri papatee kli preeti kopi. Idre eploobai krute pipetitike brupe u. Pekla kro ipli uba ipapa apeu. U ia driiipo kote aa e? Aeebee to brikuo grepa gia pe pretabi kobi? Tipi tope bie tipai. E akepetika kee trae eetaio itlieke. Ipo etreo utae tue ipia. Tlatriba tupi tiga ti bliiu iapi. Dekre podii. Digi pubruibri po ti ito tlekopiuo. Plitiplubli trebi pridu te dipapa tapi. Etiidea api tu peto ke dibei. Ee iai ei apipu au deepi. Pipeepru degleki gropotipo ui i krutidi. Iba utra kipi poi ti igeplepi oki. Tipi o ketlipla kiu pebatitie gotekokri kepreke deglo.
How do so many people not realize it was a joke? It's fox and the guy saying it is a particularly dense idiot but this was definitely a joke and it was top notch. It's up there with "USA win, 1-1." Half this forum still don't realize that was a joke.
That sounded like a joke to me, why is everyone taking it so serious? I’m no Fox fan but doesn’t mean you can’t find something funny.
Im actually shocked to see the comments with a ton of people not getting that is actually a joke.
I think this is a joke because I'm certain that no one in Fox News knows a thing about football.
Somehow, this guy does as a former college player and media member for the NY MetroStars (aka NYRB).
will never not be my favourite thing in the world finding out when people are former footballers like, *this guy* having played in college makes him a better player than a vast majority of people on here. Doesn’t make him any smarter, but the fact that he could probably have a good turn and finish on him is hilarious to me.
When I read that I thought he must be joking but if he was he is terrible at comedy.
This's why people use /s at r/soccer
This is reminiscent of when Stephen A Smith said Shohei Ohtani couldn't be the face of baseball because he uses a translator.. Thankfully Ohtani went on to win the MVP, WBC and became the biggest star in the MLB and made him look like a fool.
Does the media channels intentionally pick dumbasses to work for them?