Freidel's a solid keeper but he should loose that fake ass British accent. We all know he lives and plays in England, but you dont hear Reyna, Marcus or Keller trying to sound "English". He should stop the nonesense or he can call Mike Myers for some real fake ass british accent lessons.
they are a caricature... if you had ever heard him immitate his parents' liverpool accents then you would be very impressed. and i think that everyone is missing the point here... brad friedel is a two ton piece of man-meat!
What makes you think Brad's British accent is fake? What makes you think that Brad is TRYING to sound "English"? How do you know that Reyna, Marcus or Keller is not trying to sound "English but just fails? Most importantly, in what way has Brad's accent hurt you or anyone else?
LMAO!!!!! "I hyavant hyad tiyme to wahter my playants!" (said with an extremely nasal tone). You want no accent? Try Utah, buddy. The Great Basin is the place where accents dissolve into nothing. To be fair, some people here really don't have an accent. But the standard accent is quite noticeable, believe me (though not always as strong as above).
Rob you are barking on the wrong tree, you have no idea what its like leaving in a different environment. So if you don't know why even bring it up. Well if you don't know you could ask nicely and someone will explain it to you, but only if you ask nice.
I'm glad this topic came up........I can't believe big soccer has been around all this time and no one has brought this up before....... To the user who believes that Friedel should lose his spot on the NATS because he has developed (not faking) an accent, kindly pucnh yourself in the nuts....twice. Thanks.
It's inevitable... The last interview I saw with Tim Howard, there was an English accent creeping into his speech. If we put a team in Brooklyn, the players would all start saying "youse" and "dem". People tend to adopt the speech of the people around them. Like in the army, how far would someone get if they said something like "Excuse me sir, could you please move your machine gun a little further to the right?" To get anyone's attention you'd have to say "Hey $#@*&$, if you're not too &^%$^* busy, move your *&^%&* machine gun to the right." My Australian and British friends have mostly lost their accents from living in the US. What's the big deal?
Friedel proves once and for all that you have to be somewhat of a freak of nature to play keeper..... Keller and Howard seem fairly normal in comparison (they're just not as overtly freakish at least)
Howard has been there for 9 minutes.....Keller might not be as prone to pick up dialects......not a big deal either way.
You obviously have no sense of what is important in international soccer. and for that you can just stay away from my "Wade Barret: Lost the chops, Got splinters?" thread. Come on, Todd, where's your soccer passion?
Aye cos there is so many big green ogres walking about here to caricature Scouse is easy anyway, all you have to learn is " not guilty yer honour" and say in in a nasal tone.
Re: Re: Friedel talks like a Geordie. I not sure about this different enviroment you mention. Its not as though he`s living with some remote Congolese tribe, surviving on beetle larvae and wild berries. Its Blackburn. I`m sure on his Sundays off he plays abit of golf, takes his kids to the Multiplex stops at a drivethru says:`why aye man`, from time to time, the normal things. The reason I mentioned it in the first place is that Friedel is so established in the EPL now, he`s even sounding the part, I just wish he could be called up for England. Some would say Cudicini is the best keeper here but if most fans could pick one GK I think most would go for Freidel, geordie accent and all.
Re: Re: Re: Friedel talks like a Geordie. Hey, don't knock beatle larvae, especially when it's in season.
Ask and you shall receive- http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/index2.html I think we should all have a little more sympathy for Brad. I've lived abroad (though not in UK) for a long time and I have to remember to stick an occasional "y'all" in so people will know where I'm really from!
Somethingn like that happened to me when I went to Germany for an exchange. After a bit people said I had a "Welsh-Scottish" accent with English (whatever the hell that accent is), and I apparently spoke German with the most outlandish accent ever. For the record, I've lived in the southeastern US most of my life.
i fear that something like that is going to happen to me when i do my study abroad in england next year...
You're ignorant. People here had been talking about it since his Liverpool days. Friedel had been using his "DEVELOPED" FUNNY accent just a couple of weeks after arriving in England. I still think he's "Like A Virgin - WEIRDO" and besides Howard is now a better keeper than Friedel anyway. Weirdos shouldn't be allowed to play for the Nats, unless your name is DaMarcus Beasley of course.