Moy Bueno! FFT's Spanish phrasebook - made specifically for David Moyes
With David Moyes heading to Real Sociedad, FFT's Andrew Murray provides a few phrases which should come in handy...
"El Elegido"
"The Chosen One"
"Factor 50, por favor"
"Factor 50, please"
"Buscad las bandas"
"Hit the channels"
"El Equipo del Público"
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"The People's Club"
"Lo que ya tenemos, no perdemos"
"What we have, we hold"
"Buscad pases largos a Marouane"
"Go long to Marouane"
"Ganad faltas libres para Bainesy... ah"
"Get a free-kick for Bainesy... oh"
"No falles, no falles, no falles..."
"Don't choke, don't choke, don't choke..."
"Mientras marcas al hombre a Messi, piénsate, '¿cómo lo haría Phil Jagielka?'"
"When man-marking Messi, think to yourself, 'what would Phil Jagielka do?'"
"Se ha roto mi lavadora"
"My washing machine is broken"
"No sé que es lo que tenemos que hacer para ganar. Hemos jugado bien."
"I don't know what we have to do to win. We played well today"
"Vienen a jugar en Anoeta y vamos a hacer que la vida sea tan difícil como podamos"
"They're coming to Anoeta and we're going to make it as difficult for them as we possibly can"
"Dejad de agitar esos pañuelos, por favor"
"Please stop waving those hankies"
Andrew Murray is an award-winning writer, columnist and editor, voted the Consumer Journalist of the Year at the 2015 PPA New Talent Awards. A fluent Spanish speaker and former semi-professional footballer, he was senior staff writer at FourFourTwo from 2012 to 2019, interviewing the biggest names in the game from Lionel Messi (twice), Neymar and Luis Suarez, to Sergio Aguero, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah for the cover, among others. He continues to write and edit for the brand on a regular basis, plus national newspapers, websites, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Premier League clubs. He is not a famous tennis player.
