Steve Mclaren's Fake Dutch Accent

popette

what a numpty - have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l9BFJYiPxA
nearly spat my porridge out when I heard it on five live this morning

Lagavulin

What a complete t!t. :shock:

toshmund

Think the bloke gets an hard time, a lot of which he does not deserve. He seems to be a cracking coach on the training ground. Probably does not have a strong enough personality to be a great manager. Especially when you are dealing with muppets like Rio Ferdinand/Lee Bowyer (in his day). When he was at Derby with Jim Smith, Derby were superb. When he left to join Manchester Utd. Derby lost their way, and Manchester Utd did the treble. Alex Ferguson - not renowned for being the poorest judge of character/easiest bloke to get along with, seems to rate him.

As for the accent, should think that the intonations/vocal rhythms made it a lot easier for the Dutch to understand. Definitely more than his normal North-eastern accent.

Middlesborough - they just enjoy throwing good money after bad. What with Ravanelli/Juninho and all of that malarky - he was never going to come out of that well.

Shame we don't have a few more Dean Windass's...

Lagavulin

If you're going to manage abroad then learn the native language or talk normally, don't take the p!$$ out of it.
What if he'd gone to Werder Bremen? A nice Herr Flick impression?

Tackle

I second what Tashmund says.

He was a success at Utd as Fergies number 2, was of reasonable success at Middlesborough, a few faioures in the transfer market excepted, but I think that Gibson may be partly reasponsable for them and only fell flat on his face when managing a bunch of over paid, over hyped, over eagoed self important idiots collectivly known as the England Football Team.

Sounds to me like the interviewer is Dutch, and trust me, I work in The Netherlands a great deal, English is almost the primary language and is spoken with that dialect by almost everyone in the country. I speak Dutch, but when you try to, they would rather communicate in English, even amoungst themselves.

Roger_This

That is brilliant! He sounds like he's trying to translate from Dutch and struggling. Must have integrated really well

It's true about the Dutch wanting to speak English. My missus is Dutch so I've picked up a few words, but trying to speak Dutch to the Dutch - forget it, they're just too good at English, and they try to be helpful by speaking English.

knedlicky

Never value highly a man who smiles that much! Pleasant yes; competent, well… I think this was how the FA were duped.
I think McClaren’s useless as a trainer. When he had success it was because the squad would have done so anyway, or his co-trainer/manager was responsible. And at Middlesborough he rode on the very lucky European results; in the Premier League that season Middlesborough were miserableborough and lucky to avoid relegation.

Having said all that, I found his interview technique interesting. Someone must have instructed him, because he avoided ever saying “we’ll, we’re, this’ll, it’s” and so on, in case it wasn’t (was not) understood. Germanic languages, Dutch being one, don’t (do not) have these abbreviations – instead they abbreviate other times, like when we say ‘in a, on the, to a, of the’ and so on. They also use the present tense when we would use the future (they say ‘we come’, whereas we say ‘we’ll come’), although I didn’t (did not) notice McClaren yet doing this.
When he learns how to say the passive and subjunctive tenses in Dutchlish, it’ll (it will) be even more interesting/entertaining.

onabike

Is that for real? Please tell me it's a joke. I work with some Dutch people. There is no reason whatsoever to talk like that.

No wonder we're consistently bad at international football if losers like that can get to be manager of the national team.

I remember his post-match interview after the Croatia game (post-mortem more like) . He just refused to resign as he knew he'd be sacked and receive a big payout. He then F***ed off to Barbados for awhile and then came back to do some commentating for the Europeans. Sad. I despise football. Idiot managers, over-rated footballers, sad chav supporters with their over-weight aggressive 'orrible little offspring wearing over-priced naff made in Vietnam replica football shirts covered in chav beer adverts. So sad. What's it say about the stae of our country eh?
Err...what was the question again?

wiffachip

did they used to be twente enschede ?

I'm not convinced that's his voice, he could be the one laughing

SteveR_100Milers

Hmmm I think that Nicky Campbell and Sheila Foogherty are more the numpties o this one. OK Mclarens clearly a d1ck whichever way he did or didnt mean it, but to make SUCH a big thing of and snigger so much? About as convincing as the 5 Live olympics coverage so far...clueless. (well apart from vassos alexander maybe)

fluff.

The best bit is "how you say..? underdogshh" yes Steve, that's an English word that is, you know your native languange.

fast as fupp

onabike wrote:

Is that for real? Please tell me it's a joke. I work with some Dutch people. There is no reason whatsoever to talk like that.

No wonder we're consistently bad at international football if losers like that can get to be manager of the national team.

I remember his post-match interview after the Croatia game (post-mortem more like) . He just refused to resign as he knew he'd be sacked and receive a big payout. He then F***ed off to Barbados for awhile and then came back to do some commentating for the Europeans. Sad. I despise football. Idiot managers, over-rated footballers, sad chav supporters with their over-weight aggressive 'orrible little offspring wearing over-priced naff made in Vietnam replica football shirts covered in chav beer adverts. So sad. What's it say about the stae of our country eh?
Err...what was the question again?

SO WHAT TEAM DO YOU SUPPORT?

nwallace

Some people are more susceptible to picking up accents than others, something that having to think about how he is pronouncing words for his players may have assisted.

It's very obvious with people who have been to the US for a few weeks. Head of speaking pure Fife, come back speaking the Mariam-Webster :roll:

SteveR_100Milers

fluff. wrote:

The best bit is "how you say..? underdogshh" yes Steve, that's an English word that is, you know your native languange.

It's welsh actually

I missed the underdosgh bit! I do like the way Ducth people speak English, "velkom abord zhish kye el em shittyhoper frome caurdiff to amshterdam" always makes me smile.

I still maintain that Nicky Campbell is a bigger pratt. However, both are extremely irritating in absolute terms.

sicrow

What a TW@T

always has been

CHRISNOIR

Anyone else reminded of the Dutch Coppers on Harry Enfield?

Evenin' all....

Stewie Griffin

I was in the bottom of the 3rd tier against Croatia on the halfway line, when I saw an umbrella in front of the dugout, I just knew we where in trouble :evil: .