Brits abroad

[Hillbilly]

We have three British players in the senior squad, Richards, Hutton and Cole who have played in the other big European leagues (not that it means anything). Given the rarity of such players, can anyone confirm that we have pretty much cornered this niche market?

[Damo70]

Whenever the subject of British footballers playing abroad comes up I recall how amusing it was as a school kid when Ian Wallace joined a French club called 'Brest'.

[Clampy]

The title of this thread sounds like one of those naff programmes off Channel 5.

[Damo70]

I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought  a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.

[PeterWithe]

I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought  a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.

My mate opened one in Nuneaton and much the same problems.

[Villa in Denmark]

I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought  a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.

My mate opened one in Nuneaton and much the same problems.

[waynejames]

I'm cried with laughter reading the above post!
Funny as feck.......
Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.
'Beduth' or Bedrock as the locals call it, is even less civilised than Nuneaton.
Bless em all.

[pauliewalnuts]

Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.

Finding out what the locals call various types of bread-based product is always a very good litmus test as to how fucked up they are.

[Bad English]

Here in France it is "What do you call a half-litre of beer?" Depending on the origin of your interlocutor or your geographical position, it may be one of:

- un 50 centilitres
- un distingué
- un sérieux
- un baron
- or mime the size of a big beer glass with your hands.

[silhillvilla]

I always think of Ian Rush and that painful year at juventus for some reason.

[dave.woodhall]

Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.

Finding out what the locals call various types of bread-based product is always a very good litmus test as to how fucked up they are.

They're called cobs in Tipton.

[silhillvilla]

Baps down our way

[Louzie0]

Round here, if it's smaller than a loaf and isn't a cake of some description, it is called a raowl.

Anything. Seedy, soft, crusty, pastry with fillin',bread plaits, turnovers, lattices wiv veg, it's a raowl.

(The sole exception is the pasty, the like of which has never been seen anywhere near Cornwall.)

[waynejames]

Cobs all day long, nice and simple.
Bread Roll if your super sensible.
Batch if you're trying too hard to be something your not.
Like a batch
It's a Cob

[The Laughing Policeman]

According to family in Leicester, cob if it's crusty, bap if it's soft.