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| Swansea City, AFC: English Premier League |
Sky Sports December 22, 2016
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'Swansea manager Bob Bradley defends use of Americanisms'
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'Swansea head coach Bob Bradley defends the way he speaks after using the term 'PK' for a penalty kick after their defeat to Middlesbrough.'
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'The American has faced some questions after using "PK" to describe a penalty and referring to a game at Middlesbrough as a "road game". Road games and trips are common terminology in American sports, but Bradley can see no issue with using them, adding that most countries use different phrases to describe the same thing.'
North America=Road game, Away game
United Kingdom=Away match, Away fixture
I very much appreciate many intellectual and cultural aspects of the British Isles, United Kingdom and Europe. I made the effort to claim a British passport and citizenship I was entitled to through my Father, even though I was born in Vancouver. I listen to Talk Sport. I watch British documentaries and dramas. I find most of the people I have met in the United Kingdom friendly and have several friends and family members there.
However, having researched British educational establishments for a potential PhD appointment, and then having studied at a few British institutions; there is a definite and definitive intellectual British snobbery at times in regard to language and culture. With England, in particular. I faced this academically, being sometimes, negatively considered American, although I am Canadian-British, and according to some in academia, supposedly being a Christian, fundamentalist, whereas I am a Philosophical Christian. The intellectual implications being very significant in the last case, especially, within religious studies and philosophy. But by God's grace, I earned a very technical PhD.
I have heard the term 'colonist' being thrown around while I was in the United Kingdom, but usually satirically.
Complaining of about Mr. Bradley's philosophically correct use of words for concepts, although Americanized versions, provides one premise in support of a conclusion that many English would not want Mr. Bradley to be a English Premier League coach or manager, simply because he is an American.
Granted, Bradley producing a winning record will assist his acceptability in British football culture. but he is not employed by a 'big club' with massive financial resources. This limits his winning potential, significantly.
