An exert from the Guardian Online.

But outside the top four or five in the Premiership, the harsh truth is that clubs are not awash with cash and there are too many of them, like Newcastle, who are well and truly lumbered with players with unpronounceable names with indescribably huge salaries and outrageous egos well beyond their abilities.

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000

Answers

A blatantly racist diatribe if ever I saw one ....

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000

What ? haven't they heard Marthalino is going (fingers crossed) & Maric is being kept on as a painter & decorator.

I have had some weird dreams lately.

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000

Unpronouncable names?

You mean like, Marcelino, Maric, Hamilton, Perez? Hardly tongue twisters are they?

Sadly, another piece of Grauniad anti-Toon tosh.

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000

So? Is that supposed to be "news", or what?

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000

Of course names such as LeBouef, LeSaux, Desailly are so much easier to pronounce, they pay their clubs for the privilege of kicking a ball and are as humble as can be. Riiiiiight.

-- Anonymous, May 26, 2000